Anonymous wrote:The answer in college will be later classes

exactly. And everyone shows up to classes before noon in sweats. Pretty sure 95% of my 8:30 section rolls out of bed at 8:15 and stumbles across campus. (I feel kinda bad for them. When I was a freshman, I somehow managed to avoid any class before 10:30)

Anonymous wrote:Sunrise alarm clock looks great but a bit pricey. I'll see how the vibrating one goes first.

The point is the sunrise clock works differently than a vibrating clock or noise clock. The sunrise clock brings you out of a deep sleep, as nature would do. So you actually wake up, gently, before the sound alarm (birds chirping) goes off. You were not woken from a deep sleep so you aren't groggy.

The answer in college will be later classes

Old wind up double bell alarm clock, across the room and behind something so that the teen has to get out of bed and find it.

DH has an alarm that crescendos with every passing minute.