All my memories of that time are abject and complete darkness, frigid cold, shivering while dozing off. Total misery. Waiting for a bus to take me an hour away.

I was blessed to have a "progressive" high school that recognized the issue and mercifully started at 8:30 instead of 7:20.

They can say it's "for the parents" but my folks also did not want to get woken up at 6am regardless as breakfast was made and to drive me down into the center of town where the communal bus stop was.