Severe lack of sleep

Shit, it's just crazy. I mean, Economics is good and all that but why 3 hours straight of non-stop Economics tutorials and lecture for every Thursday?

Life here is hectic - you try to catch up with various tutorials, and find that the homework comes faster than you can finish them. It's burning many of my Saturdays away for no good reason... So much for the government's 5-day work week policy, I guess it certainly doesn't apply for school at all...

But then again, that's the price we gotta pay to get where we want to get to, anyway. Were it so simple, you'd hit a university graduate for every piece of spittle you spew outta your mouth upwards into the sky. Sometimes you just need some time-out from studies - even a full 24 hour rest from all school and household work would suffice. Yet we aren't granted that at all - what's happening?

We aren't workaholics, we don't craft research papers or create theories like Newton do. I don't see the point of having severe lack of sleep while studying for tests and exams. Work and sleep have to come together in equal proportions (but some just push for more time sleeping than actually doing homework). Sure, mental flexibility can be trained, but in the long run I don't think that's gonna work while everyone of us is deprived of the basic need to sleep and rest the cognitive mind into thinking better than what we actually are doing.