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I realized that a lot of you mentioned taking a break. Well, what do you guys mean by that? Sit there a couple of hours and forget about studying? Go play around for a few days?
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YESS!!! Keep your studying to like 8 hours.... 5 is a good number... or I'm not sure if those number are right, but defiantly not more than that.
In the summer, spend like 4 hours a day or something learning how to learn. Get books on getting good grades. And do some research on goggle about how to balance things out.
Spend a day to go partying on Fridays... like you used to. Maybe even Saturday. It will keep you from being depressed and lonely, and it will let your brain recharge. Your DNA mandates that you be social or you will feel depressed. You will have fun. You fill find some friends that you can study with.
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About 90% of them I have no idea what the answers to them are...I can't even recall what they are about.
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Its because your brain has not hard wired the concepts into your subconscious brain. Why? Because you've fried your hippocampus because of being stressed out and because you don't give a chance for your hippocampus to do its thing at night and send the new information into your long term memory when you sleep.
Effects of stress on learning
Its like a car engine, if its out of oil you'd better stop or you cause serious damage. Also because if you don't stop to fix it and you keep trying to drive it, then you are going to get nowhere fast.
You sound like you've been stressed the whole semester. I remember high school that I felt like I was getting dumber as the semester when on because the stress was taking its toll on my learning circuits.
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Because I would usually rest on Friday, and the next day when I open up my textbook it seems as if I'm reading something completely different...something that I don't ever remember. The minute I take a break, it seems I forget a lot of things.
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It takes a little bit for your mind to warm up again. Or maybe because your brain was fried back then too.
Do some meditation before you start learning so that you are not stressed, that you are relaxed, and that you are having alpha brainwaves that are awesome for learning.
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It used to be the accepted scientific wisdom that we are born with all the brain cells we will ever have or need. We now know that human brains continually create new brain cells throughout life because of the work of scientist Elizabeth Gould.
Her work sparked a new, exciting and rapidly expanding field called neurogenesis meaning the birth of neurons. The healthy brain is always giving birth, constantly renewing itself with new memories, new ways of seeing, thinking and being. But, under stress, the brain starves.
Gould’s continuing research on stress and how the brain is affected by its “environ-mental” conditions is explored in a well-written, accessible article in Seed magazine by Jonah Lehrer called The Reinvention of the Self.
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Read the whole thing.
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The structure of our brain, from the details of our dendrites to the density of our hippocampus, is incredibly influenced by our surroundings. Put a primate under stressful conditions, and its brain begins to starve. It stops creating new cells. The cells it already has retreat inwards. The mind is disfigured.
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But don't worry, it also goes on to say that it it quite reversible because the brain repair itself.
Thanks seeker5 for the advice! I'll be learning how to do that for next semester. This semester was really easy for me, last semester went well, but next semester is going to be tough. So I am going to come up with an awesome plan like Steve and seeker5 has done during the summer. (assuming I don't work up a plan so that I don't need to go to school again...)