Night vs. Morning: The Ultimate Study-Time Debate

School days are long. You sit in class all day, five days a week, trying to maintain focus and absorb as much as you can while ignoring the totally irrelevant stuff—like your teacher's personal obsession with alliteration (What a wonderful week we're having! Isn't it fantastically fun? Surrrre.) But your work doesn't end when that last bell rings. You've got studying to do!

The question we ask today: When is the best time to get that studying done? Are you a night owl who likes to hit the books long after the rest of the world has entered REM? Or are you an early bird who studies with the rising sun? There are certain advantages to both tactics. And of course, being the true nerds that we are, we've carefully considered them all:

First Period
If you study in the morning, by the time you get to school you'll be completely awake and ready to focus.
But if you study at night, you'll be drowsy enough to zone out during those boring morning announcements.

Caffeination
In the morning, you can wake up your brain with a hot cup of freshly-brewed coffee, sweetened with the perfect amount of sugar and cream. Ahhh!
You can also drink coffee to keep your mind alert after midnight, but when you're done working, you'll be too jacked and jittery to fall asleep.

Distractions
If you need a break while studying late at night, you can flip on the tube and catch a hilarious infomercial or two.
Your morning TV distractions will consist of annoyingly chirpy newscasters with perfectly coiffed 'dos.

Supernatural Sightings
If you study late into the night, you'll have to contend with all those creepy "house noises." Before you know it, you'll be convinced that you felt a ghost brush past your neck.
When you wake with the morning sun to study, the only zombies you're likely to see are your parents, stumbling into the kitchen desperate for a cup of coffee.

Tunes
When you study at night, you have to keep your music quiet, which means you'll probably want to listen to something mellow to match the volume.
As the morning progresses and more people wake up, your music can get louder and more lively. By the time you leave for school you'll be jamming out and ready for the day!

Lighting
At night, the light from your computer screen will be so bright it will burn your eyes and leave you blind! OK, fine, it might just make your eyes a little dry and sore.
In the morning, the warm, natural sunlight will soften the glare from your computer, saving your eyes from complete dehydration.

Nightmares
If you finish all your work at night, you'll sleep soundly knowing that you knocked that 1984 essay out of the park.
If you plan to wake up early in the morning and work on the essay, you'll toss and turn, fighting off nightmares in which you're trapped in the Ministry of Love.

Extra Time
You can pull an all-nighter if your shoebox diorama of aliens invading the earth takes a bit longer than expected.
If you're working in the morning and the Elmer's glue isn't holding things in place, you'll have to throw something together really quickly if you want to get to school on time.

So which do you prefer? Studying late into the night, or getting up early in the morning to hit the books? Let us know.

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