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Junior Year Insomnia
"I wondered whether junior year is more than just a college prep year. Is this also the prep year to the world of the eternally sleepless and stressed?"
By Pavithra Mohan
March 25, 2007
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Youth Radio's Pavithra Mohan finds it hard to get sleep at night with all she has to do...and she's only a junior in high school. Pavithra wonders if junior year is more than just a college prep year.
Now that I’m a junior in high school, I can understand the lengths some people will go for a good night’s sleep.
There’s a new salon in Manhattan for overworked, under-slept New Yorkers. Private rooms – equipted with dimmed lighting and calming music - can be rented for pricey power naps. In my most rigorous year of high school, I could definitely use one of those.
With college applications right around the corner, I’m willing to sacrifice a few extra hours of sleep to boost my G.P.A.
So when I read about those exhausted New Yorkers I wondered whether junior year is more than just a college prep year. Is this also the prep year to the world of the eternally sleepless and stressed?
Unfortunately, there’s no trendy sleep salon around the corner from me. But the soothing power of my warm bed beckons. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to take a well-deserved nap.
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