School Stress

Little Timmy is a college student in College School for the Gifted College Students. He has the average amount of homework and likes to take part in sports, like ball throw and ball catch. Since he is in College School for the Gifted College Students, his day starts at 7:00 AM when he wakes up and prepares for College School for the Gifted College Students. Then at 7:45 AM he catches the bus at the last stop before school.

Throughout the day he gets up to four whole hours of homework! Mr. Timmy comes home at 3:30 and starts on his homework, and by the time he's done dinner is ready at 7:45. He eats the meal and has family time for an hour before going over to his friend’s house to play attack person with ball for 30 minutes, then comes home in time to go to sleep at 9:30.

The next day he has ball throw practice for the College Students (the mascot of the College School for the Gifted College Students) and gets home at 6:30 PM. He eats an early dinner and does his homework. By the time he finishes it, it’s already 11:00 PM and he has to go to sleep so he can get to school on time!

The next day Little is very tired, but he can work through it. He follows the same routine as yesterday, but he has a test tomorrow so he stays up studying another half hour. This is the second day in a row that Little Timmy hasn't gotten enough sleep, and he is starting to get a little irritable.

Now Little’s friends are feeling like they haven't seen much of him recently, so they plan a big get-together the next Saturday. Luckily, it is already Thursday and Little has only missed a couple hours of sleep. Even so, his biological clock is resetting, so it will be very hard to get to sleep on time.

On Saturday, Little Timmy has to work on his History project and go to the get together. The big party lasts until 10:00 PM and Timmy still has to work on his project, so he fights off his lack of sleep and gets to work.

After four years of this vicious cycle Little Timmy has gotten sick more and more often, and is becoming more at risk for heart attacks. In fact, in 10 years, he will get a appendicitis at the age of 30. He most likely die due to his weight problem contributed to by his continuous lack of sleep, making him difficult to operate on. The surgeons will also be very stressed out because of their student loans that are exceeding $150,000, and in turn are losing sleep of their own. This causes their patients to be at risk, and thus the vicious cycle continues.