Sharpening your brain for a fully loaded semester.

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<p>Hey guys,</p>

<p>I recently transferred to an engineering school and as a transfer student am behind.</p>

<p>I want to graduate in 4 years so I took a huge course load for the coming semester to catch up.</p>

<p>Just wondering about all the little things I can do to help my brain stay sharp for and during the coming semester.</p>

<p>And by little things I mean:</p>

<p>What types of food to consume (I hear fish is good for the brain)?</p>

<p>Whether to take multivitamins (if they actually do something)?</p>

<p>Whether or not to try and stay disinterested in girls?</p>

<p>Whether or not to listen to a lot of music (which can be a distraction at times)?</p>

<p>How many hours to sleep? Sleep once a day for about 8 hrs? Or twice for four hours (I hear this works for some people)?</p>

<p>Whether or not play video games (which can or cannot stimulate the brain when bored, and prime it for study (what to do you guys think))?</p>

<p>Plus whatever else you guys can come up with. Thanks!</p>

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<p>If this is the first semester after the transfer, you might want to lighten up on the load. There are lots of students that take a lot of courses and then do poorly on them and wind up taking longer than usual. Summer is a better time to catch up. Your GPA can suffer from taking too many courses too.</p>

<p>As far as sleep goes - make sure that it’s restful and establish a pattern of rest.</p>

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<p>Stay healthy, dont get sick and get full sleep is about the best regimen for surviving a tough courseload. as for food, you can never tell these days, so just eat healthily. anything further than that is mostly superstition and unfounded imho.</p>

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<p>Here’s my suggestions: (Pick and choose which ones you like)</p>

<ul>
<li><p>Live on campus because someone cooks for you and you don’t have dishes.</p></li>
<li><p>Avoid girls, they take time and money, which you’ll have neither of this quarter.</p></li>
<li><p>You may discover you can get by with only 4 hours of sleep. Or you may discover that you need more.</p></li>
<li><p>Video games will take time, which you won’t have much of this quarter. I’d get out and do some exercise and breathe some fresh air in your scant time off.</p></li>
<li><p>Make sure you have some time for a hobby. I did coin collecting my busiest year in college because I didn’t have time to plan out anything on the weekend and found it relaxing to sort through coins on Friday nights.</p></li>
</ul>

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<p>Eat a bunch of smarties. Sugar is good for your brain. I’m not even playing around this time.</p>

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<p>Processed sugar is bad for you…</p>

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<p>But good for the brain. I swears it.</p>

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<p>They are called smarties…</p>

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<p>yea, just like diet coke actually makes you lose weight…</p>

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<p>i think you are in the right frame of mind.</p>