Many students walk around campus like zombies, barely getting to their classes. Their eye bags are purple and their eyes are red because the night before they stayed up perfecting their 10-page essay.

Students are sleep-deprived and could use a space to make up for their lost sleep. Without a space for students to nap, they are forced to sleep on stone benches leaving them vulnerable.

“I think it’s very beneficial, especially since the best sleep spot is the library,” Josue Verduzcl, a student majoring in HVAC, said.

Arizona State University has sleeping pods for students who need a quick nap to, “Reset their brains and feel more refreshed.”

Not all students live near Fresno City College. Some of those students have gaps between their classes. It would benefit tired students to rest their minds. 

“I think sleeping pods would be beneficial because it would help students that have long gaps in between their periods.” Emmanuel Castillo, a student at FCC said,  “and it would also help people who have jobs, so they can rest up and be prepared for the next class.”

According to a statistical research article from the National Library of Medicine, Napping in College Students and Its Relationship With Nighttime Sleep, “Napping has been suggested to be a common way for college students to cope with insufficient sleep.”

Students’ academics and involvement in the school could be boosted with just one sleep pod. 

Other positive effects according to the same article are, “improved neurobehavioral performance and alertness have been systematically reviewed in healthy adults.”

Since FCC is building a new science building, the old science building can be used for sleep pods. There are three levels in that building and sleeping pods would only take up a couple rooms.

ASU charges their students depending on how long their naps are. However, their sleep pods are high-tech and fully insulated. It would be nice to have nap pods like those, but a place to nap other than the stone benches would be satisfactory.