Sleep deprivation plaguing college students

Brayden Miller Staff Writer

College students might not realize it until they have to wake up for an 8 a.m. class, but getting lots of sleep is very important for your body’s health. Inadequate sleep will not only make someone feel drowsy and generally miserable, but it can also make their metabolism, immune system and memory retention less effective.

Unfortunately, there are many kinds of distractions and complications that might keep a college student from having a healthy sleep schedule. From the crushing weight of an especially heavy workload to the - almost obligatory - participation in “going out” culture, it can seem like a very tall order to work a reasonable bedtime into the average college student’s schedule. Or maybe they can’t get off their phones.

As described by the Journal of Biophotonics, using a phone or a computer before going to bed can interfere with the body’s production of melatonin, a hormone used for inducing sleep.

Supposedly, this is because of the blue light wavelengths present in the screens. The blue lights, which are similar to that of daylight, confuse your body’s day and night cycle. To get the best quality sleep, it is a good idea not to use that type of device within an hour of laying down for the night.

However, that is not always feasible for a college student, especially if there are a test or major assignment due the next day.

The struggle to keep up with assignments is another cause for many college student’s late nights. If a student cannot find the time to study throughout the course of the week, they might find beginning of January in Louisville, Kentucky. themselves pulling a desperate cramming session the night before a test.

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For instance, freshman Alyssa Chargualaf has been known to cram as a last resort.

“If I have other stuff in my schedule and I did not have time to study ahead, then I would cram, but if I had that time, then I would not cram,” Chargualaf said. “I would space it out.”

Many studies by the American Psychological Association support that cramming style studying is far less effective for memory retention than shorter studying sessions spaced out over multiple days. The APA also warns that lack of sleep diminishes concentration and the ability to recall learned information, so pulling an all-nighter might be counterproductive, even if you have burned through all your other studying time hanging out with friends.

The urge can be strong to reward oneself after a long, hard week of classes. What better way to do that than by going out with some of your closest friends on the weekend?

Cryptozoo? more like crypto-boo.

People losing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Logan Pauls newest scam

Hannah Adams Asst. Opinion Editor

Logan Paul, a popular YouTuber and vlogger, has been associated with a fair share of controversies throughout his career. Perhaps the most well-known of these is when Paul recorded a corpse in Japan that was presumably that of a suicide victim. Most recently, the social media influencer got into a scandal regarding an NFT project called CryptoZoo.

This project started as an outlet of cryptocurrency that Paul described as “a really fun game that makes you money.”

Paul made many claims about the development of this project, stating that he had spent $1 million evolving it. After a few months of promoting the project through his podcast, “IMPAULSIVE,” Paul randomly seemed to abandon the idea, neglecting to speak on it through his platforms.

The sudden change drew the attention of both investors and of cryptocurrency scam investigator Stephen Findeisen.

Initially, the purpose of the CryptoZoo game was to allow players to act as zookeepers. Within the game, users would have the opportunity to buy and sell NFTs in the form of exotic animals.

In BBC article “YouTube star Logan Paul apologizes for CryptoZoo project failure,” by Joe Tidy the dynamics of the game are further explained.

“In a now-deleted description, it was described as “an autonomous ecosystem that allows ZooKeepers to buy, sell, and trade exotic animals and hybrids.

CryptoZoo incorporates cryptocurrency and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) into a simple, fun game with familiar mechanics. The project sold images of cartoon eggs as NFTs, with the promise that collectors would be able to hatch them into randomly chosen animal images. Collectors would then be able to ‘breed’ their animal images to create new species and win coins in a linked cryptocurrency called $ZOO. In a since-removed project roadmap, many games were promised in 2022 that would incorporate the animal NFT images, but no playable features were delivered.”

NFTs are tokens that store information, typically on the Ethereum blockchain, and are often used for crypto trading by art collectors. NTFs are unique form of cryptocurrency because they are a digital signature that makes equality among them impossible. No NFT is the same, which was the ultimate purpose of the formation of CryptoZoo.

With CryptoZoo, Paul’s NFT consisted of exotic animal eggs that could be bought, sold or traded to evolve animals or create hybrids. Each NFT egg that was bought would hatch into a unique species that no other investor had. This would prompt other investors to express interest in buying or trading their NFT eggs for those of another user.

The idea was wellliked by investors and began to pick up attention through Paul’s social media advertising. One investor went on record to say that they had spent as much as $45,000 on CryptoZoo prior to Paul’s evasive behavior. Given the large sums of money that some users had committed to the project, there was backlash quickly when the project began to look like a scam. It was not until YouTuber Coffeezilla spoke out on the issue that Paul finally came forward with a statement.

Findeisen, also known by his YouTube persona Coffeezilla, released a three-part YouTube series that investigated CryptoZoo and Paul’s involvement. Within this series, Findeisen claimed that Paul’s game was a scam to investors and that Paul had gone silent on the issue to avoid having to take accountability. Initially, following the release of Findeisen’s video, Paul threatened a lawsuit against him. Not long after, Paul dropped the charges and released a statement on Twitter.

“Hey, all, just wanted to update you,” Paul said. “I deleted my initial response to Coffee’s series. It was rash and misaligned with the true issue at hand, so I called him today and apologized… the war is not with Coffee. In fact, I’m grateful; he brought this to light. I will be taking accountability, apologizing, and coming forward with a plan in the near future. Thank you all for believing in this project & sticking with me. I know it’s been bumpy, but your support is everything to me and I will make this right.”

It is unclear how Paul plans to refund and repair the issues that have been inflicted on investors. Paul has yet to follow through on his claims that he will find a solution, but he did extend an invite to Findeisen to be a guest on his podcast and discuss the issue. Paul also claims that he fell for the scam of false professionals to assert that the failure of CryptoZoo was not completely his fault. Whether or not this is true will fall to the victims of this scam to decide.