Classwork encroached later into the night, and he went to bed with a level of exhaustion that rest couldn’t fix.
“I was just absorbed in that culture of go, go, go, go, go.”īut the packed days strung together, the work piled on, and Riew felt more and more drained. “I was just doing what everyone else was doing,” he says. He acknowledges now how well he fit the “overworked Harvard student” stereotype, but during sophomore year the commitments didn’t strike him as unusual. On top of his schoolwork and various extracurriculars, he spent about 20 hours a week volunteering at local homeless shelters. “You know,” he says, “you have nine hours to sleep.”
Bradley Riew ’18 had a calendar reliably packed from 9 a.m.
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