This thing no be life
Why 8am classes should be declared a Human rights violation
What's up guyyyy?
School has resumed, you probably haven't. I'm not judging but I hope you're at least mentally preparing for your 8am classes. Alarms would soon start to scream, and your brain will wonder why 8am is a thing.
While students hustle through lectures half-asleep and pretending to understand, we can say the truth: some things in student life are criminal, and 8am classes? Definitely top of the list.
We’ve all been there. Your alarm screams at 6:30am, your brain says “nah, there's still time,” and your lecturer, department, faculty or whoever is responsible for your timetable thinks 8am is a reasonable hour to learn and understand Quantum Physics or The Socio-economic Impacts of Globalization or even Byzantine Architecture.
Spoiler for you sir/ma: IT IS NOT. Not even slightly.
Here's why:
1. Sleep: The Most Basic Human Right
Science clearly says humans need 7–9 hours of sleep. Most of us get 4–5, if we’re lucky. This is basically academic abuse.
…But you sef, you know you stayed up till 3am scrolling Instagram, tweeting, or “just finishing that assignment” that could’ve started yesterday. Yet here we are, pretending to be victims. Classic. We'll allow.
2. Productivity? Don’t Make Me Laugh
Studies show early-morning productivity is basically a myth for night owls and most students. That 8am class isn’t fostering genius please, it’s creating zombies.
3. Mental Health at Risk
Chronic sleep deprivation messes with mood, focus, and memory. 8am lectures steal your sanity while charging tuition fees.
Yes yes, but if you managed your Netflix binges and TikTok marathons better, this wouldn’t hurt so much. Just saying. We'll still allow it, because, you know, “common good” or something like that.
4. The Commuter Nightmare
For students commuting from far, 8am means leaving home at dawn or before. traffic doesn’t negotiate. If you come to school from home, you stay off-campus or your hostel is far from main school area, if you don't plan your night properly, you’d be gasping for breath at the gate.
5. Social Life Gets Slaughtered
8am classes kill everything fun. You can’t stay out late. You can’t nap long. You can’t even have a decent breakfast.
And yes, we know you stayed up for that party or that midnight coding session. We still empathize…kind of.
Regardless upon still,
8am classes are cruel, unusual, and borderline illegal. But we also know the reality: you enjoy your late-night shenanigans whether for the right and understandable reasons or not.
That's why we're here, all of us alive-ish at dawn, fighting for the common good…one 8am class at a time, right?
Sleep-deprived students, unite! (Or not? cos I want to go back to bed please 😩)
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Until next gist,
Gbemi from 10.8.8 Africa ✨