As fall rolls around, daylight savings time sets in; most students cheer at the thought of getting extra sleep while others find it confusing.
“I hate day light savings so much,” freshman Victoria Cavazos said. “It can be six in the afternoon and it looks like midnight outside.”
Cavazos said that the early onset of darkness causes her to feel that she is behind schedule.
“Here I am looking out the window while doing geometry thinking ‘it’s really late’,” Cavazos said. “Then I’m stressing because I like sleep and if I don’t get enough of it, I become lethal.”
In addition, students are finding that their early routines are changing.
“Usually in the mornings I would go to sleep on the bus because it was still kind of dark,” freshman Daria Locha said. “But now it’s too bright to even sleep.”
And then there are those students that do look on the bright side of daylight savings.
“It’s great when I wake up in the morning on school days,” freshman Elizabeth Steward said. “Because when it is actually bright and I can see the sun before I go into the fluorescent brick chamber called school.”
As the time falls back, we lose daylight earlier. According to Time and Date the annual day- light savings time has occurred for over 100 years; it started in the belief that instead of wasting man- made light, we can instead use the sun to our advantage.
One advantage that some students feel is that it makes them sleepy earlier and more slumber is healthy.
“I enjoy daylight saving time,” freshman Julian Monanez said. “Because usually when it’s light outside, I stay up and when it’s dark I fall asleep. So now I get to catch up on my sleeping, especially since I attend HCHS.”