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The original artwork for this strip is available for purchase. See the original artwork information page for more information.
Notes: White-out corrections in the first and last panels; pasted-in correction in the second panel.
Not only ‘cool’ kids sleep in classes. I’m one of the biggest nerds in school and I sleep at least 20 minutes during school every day.
Don’t feel bad, sleep is vital to learning. The school day, and indeed the working day from which it is derived, is fundamentally broken except in those countries that retain the tradition of the siesta.
And those countries are mostly those which, if you work in the early afternoon, you will sweat to death.
I’m not an early-morning person myself, but years ago I had the opportunity to join a group going on an amazing trek. Only problem was that its timing was already fixed and I was scheduled to be teaching then — one of the teachers of that course the next quarter volunteered to swap that half of the course with me and I joyfully accepted, even though that would mean lecturing at *his* chosen time when I got back — which had a 7:30 AM start. (You think nightmares about over-sleeping exams are bad? Those of over-sleeping a lecture you are to give are far worse.) One of the students was also not a morning person, though he did everything he could to try to stay awake — he sat in the front row with a humongous cup of coffee. He never made it through a single lecture without falling deeply asleep. However, not only was he doing his best to stay awake, he was also top of the class, so I just let him be —
I don’t have socil studies, but I would probubly sleep through it