Studies Found on Studying

By: Alissa Coschigano

Coming back from a summer vacation is not always the easiest thing to acomplish. There are many occassions where we often think "why are we back at school?!" With these thoughts in mind, it is hard to get our minds focused and back on the school schedule. By forcing ourselves to study and cram in all the knowledge that we need, we are putting strain on our minds. Personally, getting back into school mode is one of the hardest things to overcome. An article in the New York Times titled "Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits" gives us all an idea of a way to crack down to business and explore new tactics on keeping our minds focused.

By simply changing rooms while studying, our minds become more attentive and aware to what information we are putting into our heads. Also, the article states that while studying, it is best to not focus on just one topic, but other topics that pertain to it. This can be effective while writing an essay so to speak because we are able to add in outside information that we will already have stored in our minds. "The brain makes subtle associations between what it is studying and the background sensations it has at the time, the authors say, regardless of whether those perceptions are conscious" says the author of this research study.

Everything we do, effects how we remember. Even just changing up our study ways by readjusting where we study and how the content is being focused on, can shape our minds into remembering more, instead of daydreaming about the summer we just left behind.