At my school from 6-12, we did indeed have to get up at 2am for matins. We went to bed at 8, woke at 2, went to chapel, back to bed, up at 6.<p>This practice hasn&#x27;t entirely died out.<p>My principal memories of it consist of biting cold. Our dorms were unheated, so getting up in the freezing night was pretty unpleasant, and getting back to sleep was hard to say the least. While we were out the moisture in the room would condense on the iron frames of the bunks, and freeze.<p>Needless to say these days I do the standard 3am-8am God I feel fuck-awful &quot;sleep&quot; propped up with plenty of coffee.