There isn’t anything more satisfying than coming home from your unnecessarily early class and throwing yourself back onto your bed for the next some odd amount of time before you have to go back to real life. These brief periods of rest and energy regeneration are called naps. Naps are what we live on.

Naps are the only thing that make 7:30 a.m. classes okay. I will gladly drag myself to any early class or meeting as long as I know there is a nap right after it. Here's how it goes: You roll out of bed throw on your best sweatpants and head out to class knowing full well you’re going to sleep your butt off when you get back. Sure it’s a pain to have to walk somewhere to sit and be bored until you have to walk back, but it is all made better by that tiny time you get to sleep afterwards. Once you hop back into bed you’re out until that pesky alarm brings you back to consciousness.

Nothing is worse than being overly exhausted due to this tough life us students live. Classes, clubs, jobs, homework. All of these things can take up our entire day for weeks on end. So when do we get our free time? In the late night hours. Or sometimes even the late late night hours. That is why naps are so important to our well-being. Most days we are all just surviving along until the next time we get to sleep.

Naps help us feel not-so-crappy even if our day is going that way. Feeling over-tired? Take a nap. Feeling stressed? Take a nap. Felling homesick? Take a nap. Feeling a bit hung-over? Take. A. Nap. There’s a reason we all love sleeping so much. It let’s us forget about everything going on in our lives, good or bad, for a minute and just relax. Sometimes even sleeping can help an illness go away. So if you are ever not sure what to do about something, take a nap and come back to it when you are well rested and your brain is clear.

So naps, I’d like to thank you for giving me the sleep I need whenever I need it. Thank you for allowing all of us to sleep our stress away when it’s just becoming too much, or giving us time to recuperate when it is desparatly needed. Thanks for being the motivation behind us actually making it to that class that is just too dang early. Without you we would all be miserable and most likely suffering from sleep deprivation.