Cause and Effect Journal

As a college student, I have two extravagant wishes: getting straight A+ and sleeping for full eight hours one day. Maybe after some extremely hard work, I can achieve the first goal, but the second one is like a "mission impossible". But actually, going to bed late at night has negative effect on my college academic study.

Going to bed late at night makes me feel not refreshed next morning. First, when I fall asleep at night, my brain is in a statue of rearranging information I have received during the daytime. Lack of sleep may make information my mind chaotic, which is a reason why usually after a sleepless night, I feel drowsy the next morning. Not only my brain is having a rest during sleep time, but also my other organs are doing some renovating things, as we call it, the metastasis work. Not sleep on time may slow down the rate of our metabolism, and "dirty" in my body has not been cleaned out in time. As a result, I may feel really tired like I never taken a sleep at all. And at last, if I sleep late at night, I am always worried about if I can get up on time the next morning or how to fall asleep a little easier. That takes me much more time to fall asleep and makes me have more dreams while i am sleeping. It is sound to have dreams at during sleep because it means I am in a deep sleep, but too many dreams may make my nerves intense all night. As a consequence, I feel numb in the morening.

A drowsy head leads a low efficiency in class. This reminds my own experience. After a five-hour sleep, I showed up in my economic class. I was lying in my chair with my almost exploded head and aching shoulders. As an ESL student, I have already had a lot of trouble to understand my professor's lecture. On that day, I just knew that she is talking, but I cannot catch up her with even a single sentence! I struggled whether I should take a nap or not to refresh myself a little, but ache all over my body even stopped me from closing my eyes. I tried to read my text book, but I just cannot concentrate on it. What was worse? I felt the same way all day, and missed all knowledge I should learn that day.

As a result, I had to put more effort on the materials we covered that day, because I do not want to fall behind of my other classmates. Consequently, I have to work until deep in night again, but because of my exhaustion, I will choose to sleep other than finish my study. As a consequence in a long term, I will definitely fall behind my classmates.

In conclusion, It is a bad idea to go to bed late at night, because it has a negative effect on my academic study.