According to Mijal Bitton, sleep is the result of coffee deprivation.
Something amazing that happens in Stern College is that the entire college stops sleeping during finals week. Libraries and the Beit Midrash are filled with studying humans at all times of the day and night. If not for the fact that the sun sets, one would not have the ability to differentiate between evening and morning.
One can see that it is finals at Stern by the fact that all the girls walk around with huge sacks under their eyes, arms shaking from the overdose of caffeine, Oreo cookie boxes everywhere. People need caffeine and sugar to pump that studying brain of theirs through overly long tedious hours and study routines. People read textbooks and cram three hundred pages of information into five hours of uninterrupted studying. This affects their mental well being and that is evident from just a glance at a Stern Student during Finals week.
Girls on average gain twenty three pounds in a week of finals (this was proven as a result of a study conducted in Yale University entitled: "Stern and the Final Obesity"), women are twice more likely to snap at professors, three times more likely to complain that the food in the cafeteria is not sufficient, and twelve times, no kidding twelve times more likely to lose their ability to walk in straight lines.
The student masters the material, prepares the sources, memorizes the arguments, and is finally ready to engage in battle, to demonstrate her control over the material. The student is the warrior; the subject is it’s prey.
The student stands outside the testing room, pen in hand, anticipation in heart, waiting impatiently for the doors to burst open, and for all the information contained within to flow freely.
