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Finals Pitfalls: Diet and External Distractions

The week of finals for a number of local schools is finally upon us and many students are scrambling, studying and stressing to make that last ditch effort to either improve their grades or make sure to keep them up. With all of this last minute studying and cramming for tests students will often time resort to eating and drinking whatever they can to keep them going and continue studying. However drinking three Red Bulls, two trenta vanilla lattes, eating an entire bag of cheetos and a Chipotle burrito to make it through an all night cram session is not the best strategy for succeeding on finals and keeping your body functioning at peak performance. While it may taste good and keep you going for the day, after this week is over the students bodies will be screaming in utter dismay at the stress and torture that students put themselves through during finals. Because we cannot climate the stress from the actual taking of the tests on ourselves, we need to make sure that everything else happening to our body is making it feel good and strong. To accomplish this the students need to eat balanced meals throughout the day and limit the caffeine intake , especially eating some kind of breakfast each morning before the days of the test because you wouldn’t be able to drive your car without fuel so what would make it possible to use your brain without the necessary fuel.

Another major problem taking away from students ability to do well on finals is the increase in internet use. With all the new social media and internet sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. students have so many new things to distract them from their studies than there was even 5 years ago. While it may not be effective to completely restrict the student from the internet because there are so many useful learning and study tools, it would be extremely beneficial to even just deactivate ones Facebook for the week of finals or even better the week before through finals to keep focus on the studying as opposed to their social internet lives. Finals can be a stressful week for everyone from students, parents, teachers and tutors, but by taking necessary and beneficial steps in preparing we can make it a little easier for us all and hopefully earn A’s

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