Energy Drinks

            I’m always tired all the time and what is my solution to staying awake and finishing my homework at night? Caffeine.  Caffeine is actually really bad for you, but what other choice do students have to try to stay awake during class? Teachers assign so much homework that students have no choice to stay up late at night to finish their homework, since many students are involved with other extra circular activities like sports, clubs, and music students either chose sleep or achieving good grades.

            I am one student that I strive upon trying to achieve good grades during school, so I stay up late about every night trying to finish my homework for the next day and end up being exhausted. My solution is caffeine. Every morning I have to drink coffee or I’ll be exhausted the entire day, and even sometimes I drink my coffee plus an energy drink in the morning just because I had to stay up late to finish my homework and without the caffeine I would end up falling asleep during class. Which teachers get mad when we fall asleep during class, but what they expect? That we are robots that can just function without sleep? So a lot of students are having to make a chose to whether get good grades or to get sleep.

            So if you’re wondering how this relates to books and movies…How does it? Well, it sort of does in a way because during class usually you’re forced to read some sort of text and how can you read something when you’re half asleep? So anyway that’s how this relates to books and movies. Ever try reading something when you’re half asleep? It’s like you read the page and when you finally get done with the page it’s like what the heck did I just read!? That happens to me all the time, but with my junior year I decided to start every morning off with coffee, and occasionally the energy drink if I’m really tired.

            Energy drinks are not good for you. I’ll say that simply, they are not. With people that are really sensitive to caffeine they should not drink them because it seriously has about three times the amount of caffeine and sugar that normal can of soda contains. But I mean what choice do I have? A lot people that get good grades I know end up falling asleep in class because they had to stay awake late to finish an assignment. One thing that I don’t get is that schools encourage extra circular activities, but how is one supposed to do extra circular activities, get good grades, and get a descent amount of sleep? It’s really hard to do, so my way of being awake all the time is to drink an energy drink or have some coffee. And though caffeine consumption is really bad, so is not getting enough sleep, and I (along with many other students) don’t get enough sleep either.