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As a college student I can say that I love to sleep. Anytime I get the chance to catch a couple z’s I take full advantage of it. This is why it seems very peculiar to me that approximately sixty percent of college students get less then the recommended eight hours of sleep. What could they really be doing that is more important then getting a goodnight’s sleep? Most people don’t realize that the problem is that teenagers simply cannot wake-up that early without enduring health problems. The reason is because of melatonin which is a hormone that induces sleep and tells the body when to go to sleep. But in teenagers, the melatonin does not appear until ten thirty to eleven thirty at night. Because of this later surge of melatonin, teenagers cannot fall asleep until later in the evening making it more difficult to get up for early classes. (Lamberg 1) It may seem obvious that stress leads to sleep deprivation. The reasoning behind this, however, may not be as obvious for teenagers. Teenagers, it appears become more sensitive to the stimulating effects of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRP) which is a stress releasing hormone. When both young and middle-aged men were administered CRH, the younger men remained awake longer