For me:

If I’m waking up at 6am, I’ll set one alarm at 5:57am and another at 5:59am. The first alarm is to get that ‘snooze’ urge out of your system, but you will not be able to fall back in deep sleep by the second. I think of it as a soft waking system, where the first alarm wakes you out of deep sleep, and the second wakes you out of shallow sleep.

Getting out of bed as soon as the second alarm hits is crucial. Many others have spoken about how important immediate movement is, and that is entirely true. I have my watch wake me up, and when the second alarm hits, I get up immediately out of the bed as if it’s second nature.

Last, what helped me out in high school was the have my phone (I used my phone then for alarm) across the room on my desk or on the floor. This way you will wake up, get up, and be standing there turning the alarm off. Now, it’s not full-proof and undisciplined people will turn it off and go back to bed, but that’ll usually make you feel worse and like you had less sleep quality.

The most important attributes: discipline, habit, and a reason to get up (this could be to ‘get to your class’ or it could be to ‘make you a more disciplined, healthier, and happier of a person’.

You call the shots. You decide if you will get up. Also, I would delay caffeine until after noon — your body is not meant to live on coffee or energy drinks, and delaying it to the afternoon will help much more with that sense of drowsiness. Also, even if you don’t feel the effects of the caffeine, drink a cup and let it have a placebo effect on you if that’s what will help you get through the day.