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College Life can be particularly difficult, as there can sometimes be an insane amount of work that seemingly has come so suddenly to hit you like can oncoming truck. As you may know, sleep is a vital part of a healthy lifestyle, as it makes out a large section of our lives. If a personContinue reading “Sleep Deprivation: The Hidden Menace in College”

It isn’t usually brought up, but sleep takes up a large amount of our life. It’s vital to healthy living and staying productive, as it takes up about a quarter of your life. Despite this importance, sleep can sometimes be underestimated, specially when someone has a lot of work to do. This is specially prevalentContinue reading “What’s my purpose?”

Brain Basics: Understanding Sleep. (2019, August 13). Retrieved fromhttps://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/patient-caregiver-education/understanding-sleep (Links to an external site.) In this article, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), along with other official branches of research groups have coincided to create an effort to investigate how the act of sleeping functions through a larger scale than just the surfaceContinue reading “Source Blogs #1 and #2”

In order to get a better understanding of the new, revised topic that has been chosen, it was much better to divert the topic towards a certain group of people rather than a broad topic. In order to find out the cause and effects of sleep for college students, I used this source to showContinue reading “Source Blogs #5 and #6”

Yang, Guang, et al. “Sleep Promotes Branch-Specific Formation of Dendritic Spines after Learning.” Science, vol. 344, no. 6188, 2014, pp. 1173–1178. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24743990. Accessed 5 Mar. 2020. On the topic of sleep, this article written by Guang Yang focuses on diving into the more specific sections of sleep and how much sleep is affecting your body inContinue reading “Source Blogs #3 and #4”