Experiencing the ‘After Break Effect’

North Texas Daily Welcome back, UNT students and faculty. I hope everyone had an amazing spring break. I don’t know about everyone else, but I definitely needed that week. It’s always nice to be able to take a week off from school and enjoy a bit of your own time.
Spring break was also a period for putting in some extra hours at work and saving up some extra spending money. Because we all know that life as a college student is not cheap. It was all good and fun, but now it’s time to get serious. With only a month and a half left of the spring semester, we need to put our thinking caps back on and put our fun on pause until summer.
The time has come to get our brains back in gear and start preparing ourselves for what remains of this semester. It’s hard to leave the comfort of your bed and Netflix binges and reopening those text books and getting back to your normal sleep schedule.
You might still have your sleep schedule set on vacation time, so getting up on Monday was probably difficult. It’s not easy to go from sleeping in until 12 p.m. one day, then getting up at 9 a.m. the next.
It’s fine, it’s a symptom you may attribute to something I like to call the “After Break Effect.” You may also experience drowsiness, headaches and excessive yawning. Some of the outcomes may involve some tardiness to class, or walking into the wrong classroom because you mixed up your Monday and Tuesday schedules. Have no fear, because you are not alone.
Now is the time to stay strong and have confidence in yourself so you get through the remainder of the semester. Our vacation may be over and perhaps a little harder to get back ...


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