When Noah S. Selsby '95 was an undergraduate, all-nighters and off-kilter hours were a fact of life.
As a head proctor of the first-year Ivy Yard, Selsby knows firsthand that students' sleep patterns are the same as ever.
"Things haven't changed since nine years ago when I was a freshman," he says. "People still stay up about the same amount of time."
"My sleeping patterns were very erratic," Selsby says. " It's fun--you're not at home any more, people want to stay up, talk to their friends. It's a part of college."
Harvard students have always had trouble getting enough sleep--and Trevor A. Bass's experience seems to be the trend.
"First semester, I would get about four or five hours of sleep during the week and walk around feeling really tired all day," says Bass, who is a first-year. "I would have gone to bed earlier, but I had so many things to do."
But what's changing is Harvard's response to students' sleepless nights.
The staff of University Health Services (UHS) encourages students to sleep regularly and often.
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