I roll over, blindly clamoring for the beeping, buzzing devilish device in hopes of reaching the hold button on my iPhone 5c to command it to “snooze” for eight more minutes. Eight minutes pass by, and the scene replays once more, filled with more grunts and rustling this time around as I am now successfully tangled in a mound of blankets, clothes and a beaten up beanie baby from sixth grade. At this point, I have 13 minutes to get my bones out of bed, get ready for the day and scurry to class, with either no breakfast, or a scowl on my face as I waltz into class late. Scratch that -- there’s likely a scowl regardless of whether or not I’m late.

This literally happens every day. I don’t normally hate the day once I’m actually awake and ready to be alive, but man those initial moments of trying to hoist myself out of the comfiest arrangement of mattress, blankets and pillow is a real struggle. So I looked up some tips for getting yourself out of bed, and figured I’d share them. Who knows -- maybe, just maybe, YOU have a hard time waking up too.

Here’s some suggestions that an article by Jennifer Smith with lifehack.org makes in terms of getting up in the morning. I may or may not agree with all of them, but let’s break down a few of them that struck my fancy.

First off, one thing Smith says to do is to move your alarm clock somewhere away from your bed. Try to put it across the room so you actually have to, like, physically get up and go turn it off. Apparently, by placing it further from your bed, the act of you walking to turn it off will help you wake up. Not tried and tested by yours truly, but hey -- a suggestion nonetheless.

Next, find a way to let in natural light into the room. If you have the opportunity due to the current season or perhaps where you live, you should try to adjust your blinds so that when it’s morning, natural light comes through. Smith mentions “the light will stimulate your body to stop the release of the hormone Melatonin and you will naturally be more ready to wake when it’s time to get up.” Also worthy of mentioning is if it’s winter or you live somewhere that doesn’t allow for much natural light, you can buy something called a natural light alarm clock, which is “designed to mimic daylight.” So there's always hope, I guess.

Another tip I found practical is to simply take a shower! This can help us feel more refreshed, and the water hitting us in the face is not much unlike someone dumping a bucket of water on you, so obviously we’d all want to simply do it ourselves. Because honestly, what better way to shock yourself into waking up then taking a cold shower? (Let’s be real. I, for the record, will sure as heck be taking zero cold showers. Maybe a nice long hot one, though.)

Once you’re up, get moving. This is definitely the hardest one for me. I find myself wanting to linger and let myself doze back off. The article actually suggests going for a run or practicing yoga. I gotta tell ya, if I have an 8am class, homegirl is probably not gonna try to start her day with a lil' morning jog nor by contorting her body into a jillion different positions. However, if there’s some slobber-worthy food calling out to me, I may have the extra umph to take a solid hike down the stairs and explore the wild adventure of pouring myself a bowl of cereal or popping a piece of toast down my windpipe, not withholding washing it down with black coffee or pulp-less OJ.

Probably the most helpful of all the tips in the article and the ones I’m choosing to share with you is to just to straight up get a good night's’ sleep. They call it “quality sleep,” which sounds expensive and fancy, but really it’s basically making sure the setting of your room is sleep-savvy, reducing a majority of loud sounds and lots of light, not eating a ton before you go to bed, and making sure you aren’t on your phone or binging on Netflix whilst trying to get your sleep on. Using technology, especially the LED-lighted kind, mimics daylight and prevents Melatonin from being released and triggering tiredness, [which] keeps you awake for longer and can disrupt your sleeping pattern” (Smith).

I may try the (hot-not-cold) shower one and the no-laptop one most often, but I hope you actually gleaned some good tips from my little rendition of Waking Up for Dummies 101. As we saw together, a lot of how well we wake up depends on something that lies much deeper -- how we sleep. Getting to bed at a decent time (casual 4am post study-time/Netflix binge not advised), planning out our outfit before we go to bed, exciting ourselves with the incentive of breakfast, and other things all play into helping get a good start to our mornings as lazy college students. Bonus tip, not listed in the article, I have personally also found listening to music and biking to class to be two effective ways that help incentivize me to wake up and enjoy the start to my day. Never fear, my fellow sleepy-heads... we can do this TOGETHER. We'll just get #getyourbuttouttabed to trend on twitter and all will be right with the world.

*For more tips, and to view the actual article I got some of my info from, support Jen Smith by taking a look at her own words on http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/how-...