Everyone at cherubs could tell a good story\u2014it was an essential part of the program. While I enjoyed chatting with my friends late at night, it meant that when my body was craving sleep at 2 a.m., it was often overshadowed by conversations in the floor lounge that demanded my attention.<\/p>\n
Time spent sleeping was a scarce commodity. It could be traded for late-night beach runs, bonding time or editing an assignment. But I knew using too much of the resource too quickly would cause a revolt inside my head. I knew I had to find a compromise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Others were more masterful in their ability to overcome sleep deprivation than I was. I had difficulty functioning after the first week. On day six, I was struggling to get through nighttime lectures and lay exhausted on my bed without participating in any late-night socialization. But I still couldn’t fall asleep.<\/span><\/p>\n Somehow, the thick wooden door in my dorm room did little to block the booming laughter or even just the footsteps. I ended up falling asleep at the same time as everyone else. At 2 a.m., when there was finally silence, I could finally embrace my pillow and enjoy some blissful rest.<\/p>\n I asked everyone who went to bed early how they were able to sleep. My friend offered a solution \u2014 earbuds to reduce the noise. He gave me his own and said that he could use his noise-canceling Airpods. I was eternally grateful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When we ran into each other in the halls, we would check in on each other’s recent sleeping habits. Sometimes, despite our own advice, we stayed up until 2 a.m. discussing a thousand different topics.<\/p>\n I chose to write about my struggle with sleep, but many others experienced the same challenge. At cherubs, anything you grapple with is a shared experience. And the bonds constructed from common enjoyment are just as strong, if not stronger than bonds forged in common frustration.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bonds were forged in a common frustration over sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":5540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[257],"class_list":["post-4587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experiences"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":257,"user_id":125,"is_guest":0,"slug":"danielguo","display_name":"Daniel Guo","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4e76312417dd13d2d247c4ada7e38b925352d3a00d7488c92aaa7ea6492b7ee7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Guo","first_name":"Daniel","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6771,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions\/6771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}