Do you spend more time in the morning doing your hair or eating breakfast? Do you not eat breakfast at all and spend all of your time in the morning putting on make-up? Maybe you don’t eat breakfast, do your hair, put make-up on, and then you spend the entire morning doing homework that is due first hour. All in all, how long does it take you to get yourself ready for school? Some of the girls attending New Haven High School spend anywhere from an hour and half to twenty minutes getting themselves ready.
There are many different things that could take up someone’s time in the morning before school and many factors that are taken into consideration for how much time someone needs, or how early one should wake up. Are you good at managing your free time? If you can pack all of your bags, set your clothes out, get all of your homework done, etc. the night before, then you can decide how much time is really needed for you to get yourself ready in the mornings. Those extra five minutes of sleep are waiting for you tomorrow morning.
However, being in a sport, a club, an activity, or even gym class might affect what you chose to do in the morning. You might think to yourself, “Is it really worth getting up early and curling my hair if I have gym second hour?” Emily Lewis exclaimed, “On P.E. days it takes me about 20 minutes. I usually straighten my hair, which takes about 15 minutes, and put it up in a ponytail. Then I eat a quick breakfast. On non P.E. days, it takes me about 30-45 depending on what I'm going to wear and how I'm going to style my hair.”
Moreover, how you view getting up and ready for school could change everyday. Maybe you have been in a slump for three days and now you decide that you are going to wake up early, curl your hair, throw on some skinny jeans, and put some make-up on! You don’t have to do the same thing every morning. Switch up your morning routine a little bit each day until you find something you like that works for you.
The demanding athletic program that New Haven has is also a factor to consider. The New Haven sports teams and coaches expect a lot out of their athletes. If you have practice right after school, and then come home, do homework, and study for tests every night, you might not want to get up ten minutes earlier to do your make-up, or do anything besides sleep.
For example, Maddie Fleer--varsity volleyball player--stated, “It all really depends on how I am going to look that day. I would say it takes me about 40 minutes to get ready for school. That would be putting clothes on, hair, makeup, and packing my bags. I could push myself, though, and get ready in about 20 minutes if I had to. I don't like being rushed, though!”
As the girls move from freshman to senior year, their efforts and morning routine change just a little bit. Senior Julie Moeckli says, “It depends on the day. If I shower in the morning rather than at night, it takes me about an hour and fifteen minutes. I spend the most time either showering or eating breakfast. I spend the least amount of time making my bed. I noticed that each year it gets harder and harder to wake up. I think that reason is that you sometimes get tired of seeing the same faces every day, and when you know there is homework and a paper you have to write, you tend to favor sleep over homework. It's also hard to wake up as a senior knowing that with each day you wake up, you are one step closer to no longer GETTING to wake up and see the faces you do enjoy seeing everyday. I used to think that I wanted high school to be over, but I am really going to miss it. I've enjoyed it way too much not too. Some days, I wake up early and get to school early just to have a few extra hours in the hallways I will soon recall as a memory.”
When asked the general questions, How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?, What do you spend the most time on?, What do you spend the least time on?, How have your efforts in getting ready changed over your high school years?, senior Mackenzy Vedder answered, “It takes me 15 minutes. I take the most time eating breakfast and the least amount of time on my clothes. My effort in how I look has stayed about the same throughout high school. ”
Senior foreign exchange student Luna Tomasi, from Italy, says, “I wake up at 7 o'clock in the morning, and I leave home at about 7.30 or 7.40, so about thirty or forty minutes. The first 10 minutes I go in the bathroom and wash my face to wake up, then I change and put my make up on, about 10 minutes. At last, I have breakfast with a bowl of cereal. I can tell you about my changing that it's always been the same since I was in the elementary school: I'm always tired to get ready and wake up in the morning, but maybe through the years it can be changed because it's became a custom!”
How much time girls at New Haven High take in the morning varies just a little bit. On average, it take girls thirty minutes to get themselves fully ready for a long day at school.
If you wanted to sleep in a little bit longer, then some of the things mentioned above might be helpful for you. If you are not a morning person, then consider doing your morning tasks the night before. Getting out of bed and getting ready in the morning might be something that you dread doing, or it could be something that you look forward to doing to get ready for the day ahead. The morning is the very beginning of the day! Make your morning worth getting up for.
-by Kathy Jasper
However, being in a sport, a club, an activity, or even gym class might affect what you chose to do in the morning. You might think to yourself, “Is it really worth getting up early and curling my hair if I have gym second hour?” Emily Lewis exclaimed, “On P.E. days it takes me about 20 minutes. I usually straighten my hair, which takes about 15 minutes, and put it up in a ponytail. Then I eat a quick breakfast. On non P.E. days, it takes me about 30-45 depending on what I'm going to wear and how I'm going to style my hair.”
Moreover, how you view getting up and ready for school could change everyday. Maybe you have been in a slump for three days and now you decide that you are going to wake up early, curl your hair, throw on some skinny jeans, and put some make-up on! You don’t have to do the same thing every morning. Switch up your morning routine a little bit each day until you find something you like that works for you.
The demanding athletic program that New Haven has is also a factor to consider. The New Haven sports teams and coaches expect a lot out of their athletes. If you have practice right after school, and then come home, do homework, and study for tests every night, you might not want to get up ten minutes earlier to do your make-up, or do anything besides sleep.
For example, Maddie Fleer--varsity volleyball player--stated, “It all really depends on how I am going to look that day. I would say it takes me about 40 minutes to get ready for school. That would be putting clothes on, hair, makeup, and packing my bags. I could push myself, though, and get ready in about 20 minutes if I had to. I don't like being rushed, though!”
As the girls move from freshman to senior year, their efforts and morning routine change just a little bit. Senior Julie Moeckli says, “It depends on the day. If I shower in the morning rather than at night, it takes me about an hour and fifteen minutes. I spend the most time either showering or eating breakfast. I spend the least amount of time making my bed. I noticed that each year it gets harder and harder to wake up. I think that reason is that you sometimes get tired of seeing the same faces every day, and when you know there is homework and a paper you have to write, you tend to favor sleep over homework. It's also hard to wake up as a senior knowing that with each day you wake up, you are one step closer to no longer GETTING to wake up and see the faces you do enjoy seeing everyday. I used to think that I wanted high school to be over, but I am really going to miss it. I've enjoyed it way too much not too. Some days, I wake up early and get to school early just to have a few extra hours in the hallways I will soon recall as a memory.”
When asked the general questions, How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?, What do you spend the most time on?, What do you spend the least time on?, How have your efforts in getting ready changed over your high school years?, senior Mackenzy Vedder answered, “It takes me 15 minutes. I take the most time eating breakfast and the least amount of time on my clothes. My effort in how I look has stayed about the same throughout high school. ”
Senior foreign exchange student Luna Tomasi, from Italy, says, “I wake up at 7 o'clock in the morning, and I leave home at about 7.30 or 7.40, so about thirty or forty minutes. The first 10 minutes I go in the bathroom and wash my face to wake up, then I change and put my make up on, about 10 minutes. At last, I have breakfast with a bowl of cereal. I can tell you about my changing that it's always been the same since I was in the elementary school: I'm always tired to get ready and wake up in the morning, but maybe through the years it can be changed because it's became a custom!”
How much time girls at New Haven High take in the morning varies just a little bit. On average, it take girls thirty minutes to get themselves fully ready for a long day at school.
If you wanted to sleep in a little bit longer, then some of the things mentioned above might be helpful for you. If you are not a morning person, then consider doing your morning tasks the night before. Getting out of bed and getting ready in the morning might be something that you dread doing, or it could be something that you look forward to doing to get ready for the day ahead. The morning is the very beginning of the day! Make your morning worth getting up for.
-by Kathy Jasper
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