By Meghan Shanahan
While many college students love to sleep, the majority of young adults get fewer than seven hours of sleep per night, according to the National Sleep Foundation’s (NSF) 2003 Sleep in America poll. Between the stress of writing papers, cramming for tests and hanging out with friends, sleep for college students can gets put on the backburner. “I feel like there are so many other things to do,” said Aisha Akhtar, a freshman undeclared major. “I don’t want to sleep.” According to a video made by NBC Digital Health Network, inadequate sleep is one of the reasons so many individuals are sick. Dr. Eve Van Cauter, told NBC Digital Health Network that after just one week of severe sleep deprivation, “such as four hours per night, a healthy
