College students who go to sleep and wake up at different times during the week may be harming their academic performance, according to a U.S. study.
Consistency - going to bed and waking up at about the same time every day, weekends included - was linked with a better grade point average (GPA) among the college students in the study, the researchers found.
“College students who sleep starved themselves during the week and then binge slept on weekends had poorer grades than those whose schedules were more consistent,” senior author Dr. Charles Czeisler, director of the Sleep Health Institute at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, told Reuters Health by email.
Pick the earliest time you have to wake up, and make that your default wakeup time for the whole week.
