By Jazmine Pendleton Collegian Correspondent College students around the country are setting a trend of spending their nights getting little to no sleep.

According to a recent study at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., two-thirds of students report they have pulled an all-nighter during a semester, which is said to drastically affect a student’s grade point average.

Also, in a recent study through Brown University, it was found that only 11 percent of college students get adequate sleep and about 73 percent have occasional sleep problems. That same study found that 30 percent of women and 18 percent of men reported they had suffered from insomnia in the last three months, as defined as having “too little or poor quality of sleep.”

Seven to eight hours of sleep is the recommended amount that a college student is to have every night, but on average, college students get about six hours per night. Even though it may only be one hour off, that one hour does a lot to a young adult’s system, and over time, it could possibly turn into a sleep disorder like insomnia.

For most, less sleep means less activity throughout the day. This can cause delayed reactions, laziness, weak attention span, drowsiness, tendency to make mistakes and sickness.

“If I don’t get enough sleep,” said UMass freshman Wendy Nunez. “I fall asleep in class, I daydream, I don’t feel like taking notes, I’m just too lazy to do anything.”

Currently UMass is not offering an educational course based solely on the importance of good sleeping habits. However, if students were aware of the effects of getting insufficient sleep, it’s possible they may make a better attempt to get proper rest. While many students are probably aware of the consequences of losing sleep, they often have too much to do at night to get enough rest.

Hopefully the importance of sleep will sink into students and they can be more focused in their classes.

Jazmine Pendleton can be reached at [email protected].