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Fortunately, the number of potential sources of funding has also increased.
We’ll examine some of the more unusual scholarship granters in this and upcoming articles.
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Although not a traditional scholarship, this money is fungible, isn’t it, and represents a nearly effortless way to try for a nice chunk of change.
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Even the most devoted students occasionally find themselves cramming before exams. This means needing to stay awake, way, way, way past your usual bedtime. How can you keep alert, and on task, when your head and the desk seem to have a fatal attraction for one another?
Earlier, we discussed the need for a good bank of sleep and shared some ideas for modifying your diet to allow for optimum wakefulness. Here, we will look at some other ways to keep the eyes open and the brain working when the clock says. “Go to sleep, sleep, and sleep”. Where were we? Must have dozed off there!
You’ve got to move it, move it!
Exercise has all sorts of powerful effects. Some of these are paradoxical, as well. Nonetheless, it seems clear that consistent exercise can help over the long run by keeping the circulation of oxygen to your brain going.
Short term, some people find that exercise is very stimulating, perhaps because of increased blood flow. However, the timing of exercise seems to impact whether it puts you to sleep or perks you up. You should perhaps experiment with vigorous exercise substantially prior to exam time to figure out how it impacts you personally.
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Exam time is hellacious. You need to be able to study hard, long, and effectively. How can you stay awake and keep your brain working, especially with several exams ahead of you?
In a previous article, we discussed the paradoxical fact that in order to be able to stay up, you need to have had some good sound sleep in the days leading up to your study sessions.
Here, we will discuss some other ways to keep your eyes open and your brain in gear during study time.
The effect of food on wakefulness is under constant study in mainstream and alternative medicine. We have known for over a decade that the cafeteria-style diet induces sleep (and, by the way, over-eating – how discouraging!).
The take-away lesson (no pun intended) is that when you are trying to feed yourself for a long night of studying, steer clear of the usual cafeteria mystery meat patties, white flour buns and pizza, and fried everything.
If this is the case, it might be best to stock up on alternatives in your dorm refrigerator. But what should you choose to put in your sleepy mouth and how?
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Even if you have been scrupulously nerdy about your studies thus far, exam time is a strain. Preparing in depth for multiple subjects, with concurrent deadlines for other assignments, all devour time. How can you stay alert to study and take your exams?
A key way to prepare for exams is SLEEP, as counter-intuitive as this sounds. Nonetheless, recent research suggests that sleep deprivation is as damaging to intellectual performance as getting really quite drunk. Would you show up for an exam with a serious buzz on? Ok, bad question! Well, would you do so if you had any sense? No, of course not.
And yet, many of us have taken exams just as impaired from lost sleep as if we had a blood alcohol level that lose us our driver’s license, if we were caught behind a steering wheel. Why do we do this to ourselves?
Another bad question, no doubt. Well, from the first day of the semester, we should be trying to keeping this sort of sleep deficit to a minimum. Research suggests that to a very limited extent, you can bank sleep. In other words, if you have been getting good substantial sleep for weeks, one all-nighter of studying will do less damage to your brain function than if you have been pulling this stunt night after night since the first day of class.
The activities you engaged in during a late night also affect how damaging lost sleep is, as well. Indulging in substances that affect your central nervous system (you know what we mean), will more negatively affect your sleep.
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Check out the previous article out of the college cooking series before reading on.
Hard cider is a fabulous addition to many foods and can make some items palatable when nothing else will. The combination of sweet fruitiness and that bite of alcoholic content tenderizes meat and takes the edge off of bitter greens and other vegetables. Let’s look at some ideas for using hard cider in cooking.
Perry is the proper term for fermented pear cider, and some places, Maryland, for example, will offer cherry cider at certain times of the year. Try them all! If alcohol is forbidden to you, boiling it briefly will disperse the offending volatile.
Hard cider is less widely available in the USA than in the UK right now, but this was not always the case. Up until the temperance movement, more apples were used for hard cider than for eating or pies. If you don’t have hard cider from your nearest specialty beer distributor, unpasteurized, unfiltered cider will happily ferment in your fridge. Leave the cap loose – carbon dioxide expands!
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