Staying awake in class is hard for everyone from time to time. We all have fallen asleep in class and then we will end missing all the notes and are pretty much screwed. What is the way to let the students stay awake in the classes? To stay awake in class we must pay attention to what we do before class, during class and after class.
Before attended the class, we need a breakfast to let us have the energy to attend class. Beside that, we also need a balance diet to maintain our healthy life. We can accord the food pyramid to have a balance diet. If we do not have enough energy containing foods we will feel very tired. Moreover, we also can drink something that can make us fresh our brain. For example, coffee, red bull, energy booster, essence chicken and so on. We also can do some preparation before we attend the class. We may read or learn the chapter, so that when lecturer explains we can easy to understand and more clearly what the lecturer teach. Hence, we will become more awake and concentration so we will never dozing off. Using this way, we will never missing the entire note.
During the class, to stay awake in class, we can choose the suitable seat. We can sit in front that lecturer can easy see you like under the lecturer’s nose. Using that, we can easily have the eye contact with the lecturer and we will never dare to sleep. After that, we can take short break to make us awake in class. If the lessen to too long, we cannot just sitting and no have any rest. It will let us easy fall in sleep. During the break, we can wash our face, chill out, listen to music and eat something. For eat something, we can have chocolate, candy snacks, chewing gum and sweet sour. All this can keep our mouth busy and alert during class. So, we can refresh our brain and pay more attention at the same time. In addition, we can do participate actively during the class. We can take the note that what the lecturer said; we also can answer question and asks lecturer several question. At the same time, we can make sure we will awake in class when we active listening and highlight the key words.
Last but not least, after the class, we must have enough rest for tomorrow class. We must rest for minimum 8 hour, if not we will no energy to concentrate in class. When we have enough sleep then we will never awake during class. Next, we also can do some exercise, for instance jogging, swimming, playing any type of ball and so on. It relation to we can have good blood circulation. We will feel active and fresh, so that we would not feel sleepy during the class. Furthermore, we must reduce the negative activities after the class. For example, playing online game, clubbing, surfing the net and so on. These activities would not bring any advantage to us. It also will waste our resting time and energy. When we are not enough to sleep, we will feel sleepy at tomorrow class.
Conclusion, as a student, we must awake in class to learn knowledge. These are the way to stay awake in class. Using these way, we can pay fully attention in class. So that, we will never waste our time when during class.
