Ask yourself for a second how much more sleep you would have gotten if you just stayed in your hometown for college. Surely it would have been more than what you’re getting now, and undoubtedly it would have helped you look a bit better for that mightily attractive guy or gal you’ve been stirring up some stuff with. Although certainly your production would not have been nearly as prolific as it is here ‘ and by production, I don’t mean in terms of academics.

It is almost like ever since mid-August we have become infected with some unstoppable urge that prevents us from focusing on a given assignment for an extended period of time. Call it some strange ADD-type mutation, but many of us students currently find ourselves absolutely zooming through everyday life. Each lecture is filled with rapid eye movements; each meal at the dining hall is shoved down one’s throat so that we can get on with our busy lives.

I walked into the room of a high school friend just a few days ago and found him hunched over his desk, glistening with sweat and moaning like a dying animal. In fact, he not only had to finish some online assignment for chemistry, but he was doing it on a deadline to make it to Chabad as well. During our time here at Binghamton, no longer do we fully live in the present, but rather, we live for the guarantee that our hard work in any of the academic, athletic or social realms will one day pay us back generously.

Taking a step back, let us reexamine those people who have decided that a good night of sleep is a luxury they can live without. These brave souls tend to choose the route of the Power Nap instead: the newest method in cramming one’s life full of better things than sleep. When these Power Nappers are not napping for more power, they’re all cramming 10-seat taxis with 15 people or playing consecutive games of soccer and volleyball. No rest for the weary you might think? Well actually, no one gets weary if they Power Nap.

This isn’t to say that our campus doesn’t have its moments that are more ‘chill’ than hype, but rather that most people here are just too consumed in everything else to chill out and not get hyped. Honestly, though, if you haven’t developed some sort of hyperactivity disorder, then not only have you been missing a lot on and off campus, but you’ve probably been sleeping the old fashioned way as well.