It is rare that one leaves university a 'professional' at anything yet, somehow, I have managed this. I was sleeping, on average, twelve hours a day, it was the activity that consumed the majority of my time and required a certain amount of stamina to keep up with my achievements. I have no qualms whatsoever in describing myself as a professional sleeper. You may think that I am being flippant when I say that I am a professional sleeper, I assure you that I am not.

As a recent graduate I feel that the last three years at university has left me with an area of expertise, beyond anything that any lecturer has taught me. I could fall asleep on a train for exactly eight minutes twenty seconds, waking up at my destination, I could time my lecture snooze so that I would catch the first and last 5 minutes of the lecture (all you actually need) and have you ever met anyone who can fall asleep on a barstool... Of course I was really in my element in bed. Like professional footballers, they train on the training ground, have.

It is a skill that has taken many hours of practice and a great deal of sacrifice (particularly all those missed 9am lectures).