It’s finals season. The time at the end of the college semester when you have multiple papers, projects, exams, and very little time.

College students know this stressing time all too well. As they are trudging through the final days high on stress and anxiety yet low on energy.

Unfortunately, as the due dates approach, students tend to lose many crucial hours of sleep that are necessary for day to day functioning.

This harmful habit can create a ripple of effects that can not only damage your lifestyle, but can make your current situation even worse.

For one thing, sleep deprivation weakens your cognitive functions. Loss of sleep can damage your ability to concentrate, reason, and problem solve. This makes decision making a difficult task.

In addition, sleep deprivation affects your judgement. When you sleep less, your interpretation of events becomes affected.

This can certainly set you up for failure as you are trying to complete your assignments and exams.

A recent study confirms a link between chronic sleep deprivation and lower GPAs in college students.

On top of making your college life impossible, sleep deprivation has detrimental health consequences.

Lack of sleep can lead to a variety of heart conditions such as heart disease, heart attacks, and high blood pressure.

Studies demonstrate that insomnia doubles your risk of death.

Sleep deprivation also takes a toll on your mental health. Insomnia has a strong link to depression.

As you finish your semester, try to allocate your time to finish everything so you don’t loose sleep.

If you must lose sleep, always recover the sleep lost after your work is all done.

Good luck colleges students.