To: The President of City Colleg

Subject: Sleeping Pods for Midday Nap

Purpose:

The purpose of this memo is to suggest a solution for students sleeping habits. City College students do not receive enough sleep throughout the day due to early am classes and very late pm classes. Sleeping pods would provide students an area to sleep and regain energy for their classes throughout the day.

Summary:

CCNY students work and study hard day after day, including weekends. Eventually, being overworked results to being tired and limiting their ability to work productively in school. I suggest there to be sleeping pods purposely for students to nap between their breaks. Allowing an area for students to nap will give them an opportunity to nap and regain energy for their minds and bodies. The solution will be creating a section for napping students similar to the study areas but instead it will be sleeping areas.   

Discussion:

Personally, I value my rest and the amount of rest I receive during the day. Early classes and afterschool requirements do not allow me to fulfill my sleeping needs. Between class gaps, I do not have the time to go home to sleep and come back for my other classes. I know I am not the only student with this problem, my fellow peers have mentioned being tired by their second or third class. The University of Delaware has studied college students and their midday naps. The results show a positive correlation of better focus and grades. Humans need rest in their days just like babies so they can gain more energy for what comes ahead. Napping reduces the tired feeling and provides a burst of energy to the mind and body. Because the school does not provide sleeping pods, many students eventually sleep in the middle of class or in studying areas. Sleeping in the middle of class prevents students from understanding or even knowing what occured in their class, this leads to lower grades. These low grades are just the beginning of a domino effect of failing class and other problems, that most students can not recover from. Sleeping pods will prevent domino effects of low grades, failing students, and even lower the chance of students from dropping out due to their grades. Students resort to sleeping in studying areas which isn’t a solution. For starters, sleeping in studying areas prevent other students from trying to study and prevents these students from their opportunities of improving or having higher grades. There is limited amount of space in City College to study and most of it is taken away by sleeping students. Sleeping pods will provide a separation from nappers and students who want to study.  Secondly, the study areas are not comfortable to sleep in. I personally, napped in studying areas and the chairs are not ideally comfortable to sleep on for 30 minutes. Students after waking up will be more tired with body pain which effects their productivity in class. Sleeping pods are critical for students to be better in school.

Recommendation:

As President of City College, I understand that you have a lot on your hands. The idea of sleeping pods may worry you based on cost and spacing. But no worries, the cost will be less than building a department, which typically are 20 million dollars and the spacing will not interfere with the other aspects of the school. For further details, please contact me in your most available time to discuss sleeping pods in CCNY.

Have a great day, Angilica Burgos

Reflection: Memo

The genre of my writing is a memo. The memo I wrote is to inform and request the President of CCNY a method to better the school. Like everyone in class the initial need to write the memo was for a grade. However, the motivation to write the memo came from an inner purpose towards a better college. I was passionate about the sleeping pods because this would be a benefit for myself and other students. The long run goal of my memo is to convince the president of city college to have sleeping pods. My memo maybe able to convince the president. The audience of my memo are my instructor, peers and mainly the president. As my instructor you’re my audience and will read my memo. My fellow peers, during peer review, had read my memo for feedback. And finally, the person who I am purposely writing for, the president. I wrote the memo specifically to him in hopes he will make changes to the school. There were many highs and lows in my memo. For starters, my highs were the ideas I had and the form in which I expressed these thoughts. Yet I personally believe that I had much more lows compared to highs. These lows include grammar, and not adding enough explanation to my intended solution. However, after this memo, I plan to improve my writing in various ways such as in grammar. For future writing now, I know that I need to add more details and be specific in every aspect of my writing.