We are killing ourselves. While we're putting in our final hours of the semester, slaving over our laptops for term papers, hooking up an IV for a perma-drip of coffee and Red Bull, and reading obscure academic texts until our eyes bleed, we're trimming years off our lives. Yes, we're all dying earlier than we should. And I don't mean that in a figurative way like, "Dude, stop killing yourself over this final" or "I'm dying over here." All of those long, long nights in Butler, SIPA, and any other 24-hour library that reduce our sleep to less than six hours a night increases the risk of early death, according to researchers.
