Being inside the four walls of a classroom at one o'clock in the afternoon with a bestacled sexagenarian speaking in a lowly voice discussing a subject not interesting to me or to any of my classmates was intensely mind-numbing. That was when I was still a college student . I was one of those lethargic students who had the special ability to get a parrot nap during lectures, without, of course, being caught. My ability to take a nap during our afternoon classes took a lot of practice. I mean, I first practiced how to yawn without being seen by this grumpy professor and when I succeeded, I then practiced closing my eyes while straightly seated in my chair pretending to enjoy listening to the lectures of our grumpy professor. At first, it was difficult for I almost fell from my seat. But as I have said, practice helped a lot to do things right, oh, I mean, to do things wrong. From then on, I was always physically present in class (the attendance being important for my professor) but mentally absent most of the time. Never can I refresh it in my memory anymore how many times did I manage to beat my "hapontukin" blues by really setting my eyes close in front of my boring professor and as far as my brain cells are concerned, there was no single instance when my attention was called about sleeping inside the classroom. I am not sure though if it was only through my imaginative mind that I was not caught sleeping inside the classrom, or it could be that my professor only tolerated me to do my nacolepsism activities.
Now that it is me who is in front of my many lethargic students doing the lectures at one o'clock in the afternoon, I always make sure that I take Enervon-C everyday to keep me energized the whole day. Before starting my one o'clock class, I always make it a point to start the class with some stretching to give the students some energy to participate in the discussion. The many questions that I throw to the class gives my students the chance to be mentally active and in the end, they do the talking most of the time. With this strategy, I don't see any students sleeping just like what I did when I was a student.
