Sugar Land, TX - Senior Mike Larson recently set a record for the least time spent awake in class by sleeping through four straight days of school.
According to friends, Larson spent a solid fifty minutes of each period sound asleep. When the bell rang, he would shuffle, zombie-like, down the hall to his next class, where he would promptly collapse once more.
"I tried everything to wake him up, but nothing worked," says Larson's exasperated history teacher, John Harding. "I rapped a yardstick on his desk, called on him for every question, got neighboring students to shake him, shined a flashlight in his face, threw a dodgeball at his head... That kid was out."
"It's pretty impressive, actually," he adds. "I haven't seen a student that determined since Stephanie Peawater insisted on taking every test sitting on the floor."
Larson's parents expressed surprise when told of their son's lengthy hibernation. "He hasn't been staying up any later than normal," says his mother, Helen Larson. "He goes to bed at nine every night. And he sleeps from the time he gets home until I call him down for dinner... How can one person sleep for that long?"
Larson could not be woken up for comment.
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