It takes more than a week to get yourself into a decent sleep schedule. I've never understood people who can't rise with their initial alarm because I've been so conditioned to do so.

If you have your alarm on the far end of you room and physically have to get up to turn it off, that may help. Just never, ever, let yourself lay back down. Sometimes you have to force yourself to be icky and tired throughout the day for a few weeks until your body learns that you indeed are tired at midnight. I don't go to bed until around midnight and I'm up at 7am with little problem. It's a matter of just taking the few weeks to condition your brain.

I agree with this.

I have to actually get out of bed to turn my alarm off. Pain in the ass? Totally. But it eliminates the possibility of me turning it off whilst half-asleep, not resetting it and subsequently oversleeping, like I used to all the time.

Set schedules are not only healthy, but they're just plain good for productivity and being responsible.

I do have a set schedule. I just want a different one. :)

Meow. :)

It's not a matter of not being able to wake up with an initial alarm. I just enjoy waking up to a second alarm. It gives me time to have a lighter sleep that is more pleasant to wake up from.

The problem with being icky and tired for me is that I find it difficult to concentrate and think through problems enough to be productive. If I'm a zombie for a few weeks, I end up with a few weeks of work stacking up.

When you wake up is your room significantly darker than outside? I've found (recently) that if I leave my curtains open the increasing brightness in the room makes getting up easier as I start to come out of my deep sleep sooner due to the ever increasing light.

Nah, with my windows and white walls, my room is bright as early as dawn.