Rainbows

Rainbows

Everyone has seen that student that arrives with an array of uniquely colored pens, maybe you even are that student. Are they on to something? Or is that person just out to cover the desk? Color can be extremely useful in a learning environment; this student is...
Hydration

Hydration

Dihydrogen monoxide โ€“ dangerous in very low and very large quantities. ๐Ÿ˜Š We all have some idea that water is important, but how important? Drinking water helps our bodies with a myriad of tasks including; regulating body temperature, preventing infections, feeding our...
Endurance

Endurance

What do you think of when you hear that word? Most people think of athletics, maybe some lone distance runner or mountain climber. The word, however, expands to every aspect of our lives. We have social endurance – which we call patience. We have cognitive...
Spring Time!!!

Spring Time!!!

Spring is wonderful — unless you have severe allergies :). The extra daylight and flowers make you want to spend all your time outdoors. How do you keep yourself from getting spring fever and neglecting your studies? Let’s use this extra solar energy to...
Get up and get moving!

Get up and get moving!

While we just wrote about the importance of sleep and learning, the opposite is also true โ€“ exercise helps with learning! Keeping a balance through your studies is very important. As mentioned in other posts, you can do so much more with a dense study session than you...