Very late to the party, as had been typical of me lately, because I’ve been off in rl a lot lately. I don’t have links, but I have an anecdote.
Like your sister, I have a “must get this done, and done right” thing, a long attention span, and difficulty turning it off for bedtime. In college I was taking first year Ancient Greek, and also simultaneously had my first ever encounter with strep throat. Greek was first thing in the morning when I would ordinarily be sleeping in any case, and the morning was the time when my fever was down and I could sleep. I am enough of a dinosaur that at that time the qwikstrep test did not exist, so there was time for the culture to come back positive, and time for the antibiotic to take effect and the fever to go down. Tl;dr? I missed a number of classes, the introduction of the optative case, and returned just before the midterm. Then I made a Very Bad Choice. In a panicked attempt to do it all right, I stayed up all night studying. I was an elite student at an elite college, and when I showed up for the exam bleary the next morning, I opened the exam, and all those new facts drained like water in a sink from my brain, and I got the first and only F- - of my life. This is how I learned that sleep is vitally important before performance based events.
In the end, I found out that the professor, one of the most fierce and feared professors on campus, known for her implacable grading and the high percentage of students she flunked, was willing to bend over backwards for those who showed a sincere willingness to learn. I passed that semester with a C+ (2.3) and got a B+ (2.7) the next, and kept my scholarship. I retook it in grad school just to be safe, but that course was much easier than the first time, and not because of familiarity alone, but because the text and the professor were so much less spare and more user friendly!
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Like your sister, I have a “must get this done, and done right” thing, a long attention span, and difficulty turning it off for bedtime. In college I was taking first year Ancient Greek, and also simultaneously had my first ever encounter with strep throat. Greek was first thing in the morning when I would ordinarily be sleeping in any case, and the morning was the time when my fever was down and I could sleep. I am enough of a dinosaur that at that time the qwikstrep test did not exist, so there was time for the culture to come back positive, and time for the antibiotic to take effect and the fever to go down. Tl;dr? I missed a number of classes, the introduction of the optative case, and returned just before the midterm. Then I made a Very Bad Choice. In a panicked attempt to do it all right, I stayed up all night studying. I was an elite student at an elite college, and when I showed up for the exam bleary the next morning, I opened the exam, and all those new facts drained like water in a sink from my brain, and I got the first and only F- - of my life. This is how I learned that sleep is vitally important before performance based events.
In the end, I found out that the professor, one of the most fierce and feared professors on campus, known for her implacable grading and the high percentage of students she flunked, was willing to bend over backwards for those who showed a sincere willingness to learn. I passed that semester with a C+ (2.3) and got a B+ (2.7) the next, and kept my scholarship. I retook it in grad school just to be safe, but that course was much easier than the first time, and not because of familiarity alone, but because the text and the professor were so much less spare and more user friendly!