The George Washington Hatchet featured a profile on one college senior who might be just that. If Ryan Hudnall isn't some kind of superhuman, then he's absolutely a master of time management. He is able to "juggle six classes, a 30-hour-a-week internship on Capitol Hill and his current position [as night manager] at Starbucks that he acquired over a year ago."

Hudnall says that enjoys his crazy schedule. Even though night shifts at the coffee shop are sleep-depriving, he likes the social interaction and the comic characters he meets. His double major and internship on the Hill will hopefully prepare him for a job where he can help people, something he's truly passionate about. So one lesson to learn from Hudnall about managing your time is: Love what you do. Well, that and stop sleeping...

[Hudnall] said he only gets about five hours of sleep each day, which is broken up into two naps that last two and a half hours each.

"Monday morning I have to be in my office by 9:30 a.m. So I'll get off at Starbucks, go home and sleep from 6:30 to 8:45 a.m. Get up, shower, go to the Hill and work on the Hill all day until about 5 [p.m.]," Hudnall said. "Then I go home, sleep, wake up at 9:30 p.m. and go back to Starbucks until six in the morning. Then on Tuesday, I wake up and I have six classes from 9:35 a.m. to eight at night. It just repeats."

That's dedication. NYU's student paper, Washington Square News, interviewed another successful over-achiever. Sophomore Ria Hill is a full-time student and published author. Her novel, The Song of the Siren, began as a bunch is disconnected scenes and characters, and after Hill decided to write them up as a book, it took her 2 years to finish 400 pages and the time-consuming editing process.

"I wrote most of the book late at night when I couldn't sleep or at lunch on loose leaf notebook paper," she said.

The question that comes to my mind is, "Are the long hours and lack of sleep really worth it?" For our latest ThinkTalk guest, the answer is definitely yes. Andrew Ross Sorkin is a financial reporter for the New York Times and author of Too Big to Fail, a study of the 2008 Wall Street crash.

During the interview, Sorkin modestly told Zack that his successful career at the NYT was due to luck, but I'm willing to bet it had more to do with hard work and persistence. Sorkin had an internship at the NYT in high school, and was assigned a story by an editor who didn't know he was just a student. Because he did a great job, Sorkin was offered a position at the paper and published 71 articles before he graduated from college. How's that for making great use of your time in school?

If you're looking for some more information on strategically managing your time, the video below has some good ideas and Penelope Trunk has good multitasking tips at her blog.  Don't forget to stay tuned for our interview with Sorkin next week!