In the past few weeks, I’ve heard my fellow students complaining quite often about how busy they are and how they never get enough sleep. And trust me, I get it. Between musical rehearsal, two AP classes, Eudora classes, running a blog and working on the yearbook staff I understand all the complaints.

However, what I don’t understand is why there are people complaining when they chose to go to bed at one in the morning or they chose to wake up at five in the morning.

“OMG I’m so tired I’m running off of only like three hours of sleep because of the Royals game last night and homework. I hate that teachers are assigning us so much when they know we have lives outside of school.”

Really? I didn’t realize that “having a life outside of school” means you watch all fourteen innings of the first World Series game when you should’ve been working on that AP essay due the next day that you haven’t even started on yet because you were too busy taking selfies at Starbucks the day before.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for watching sports and taking “me time,” but in moderation.

The reason I have a lack of sleep is because of musical rehearsals that are supposed to end at 7 p.m., giving me more than enough time to finish my homework, but go until 8 p.m. or later because of people who don’t want to go home so they talk the entire rehearsal and slow us down.
Yes, being a part of this year’s musical was my choice, but I was told I would be home by 7:15 p.m. every night if not earlier — not 8:30 p.m. or later.

The musical isn’t the only activity though, I know plenty of students who are up late working on AP homework. Not because they wanted to take these classes necessarily, but because their parents pressured them into taking them so their college resume looked good or they could take them for college credit and possibly lower their college tuition.

In my eyes, these people have a right to complain. My problem is with the people who are staying up watching TV or out with friends until 11 p.m. on a school night and then later complain about having two hours of homework to do.

While I understand that these people are tired or stressed, they need to realize that they are directly responsible for those results and that many people, including myself, don’t have my sympathy for them.