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Study Blog
Bouncing off the wall
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | Posted By: Simmy

Some students go to great – and often curious – lengths to maximize their studying time before finals.

As I approach the end of my third year in college and thus my sixth round of finals, I'm confident I've seen it all when it comes to crazy, odd or just plain absurd study methods.

Well, almost all.

I'm sure some of you fellow Cramster members out there have some interesting stories.

There was the kid across the hall freshman year who Aderol'ed himself into a 36-hour sleepless stupor. Don't take Aderol… just don't.

Then there's the classic (and much more popular) I'm-going-to-go-to-sleep-at-4-and-wake-up-at-5 method that is meant to secure some semblance of sanity.

There are the library residents, the library frequenters, the casual library users and the kids who enjoy studying outside right next to the library.

And of course you can't forget the kids who never venture near the library in favor of blasting rock music and pacing around the room as some hypnotic memorization strategy.

I told you I'd seen a lot of weird things.

But this post is about what you've seen – I'm sure there are some crazy stories out there, so please share them with us so we can get a good laugh in while taking a break from our studies.

What off-the-wall study methods have you seen or taken part in? Have you ever tried any crazy methods with surprising results?

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Anonymous (Posted 5/13/2008 10:47:28 PM)
I've gone the caffeine pill route. Took too many threw up. Ruined testing. I made it though and didn't do half-bad. Never mess with caffeine pills! Bad mojo!
Anonymous (Posted 5/13/2008 9:32:02 PM)
I can't pull just one all-nighter, so when my roommate went home early I did all my studying late at night even though I didn't need to. But I still had to actually get up and take exams occasionally, so my sleep pattern wasn't totally reversed. I don't normally drink anything with caffeine in it--I don't drink soda or coffee and only decaffeinated tea--so it doesn't take much to keep me awake. My fuel of choice? Coca cola with chocolate syrup. When I describe this people either think it sounds delicious (usually people who have fond memories of real soda shops) or absolutely disgusting, but it kept me both awake from the caffeine and happy from the chocolate-induced seratonin.
Anonymous (Posted 5/10/2008 2:33:55 PM)
red bull produce ACV in the future.... don't drink that!!!
Red bull is to do intense exercises.... not to study sitting in a chair...
=D It is just a coment =)
Anonymous (Posted 5/9/2008 6:40:12 PM)
The craziest stories I have heard are about energy drinks. Legend has it that one kid drank 4 cases of red bull trying to pull an all nighter. By the time his exam came, he was so sick from drinking all the red bull that he was rushed to the hospital and missed the exam. In the end, he was in the hospital for a week, forgot almost everything he studied, and failed the test. Moral of the story: so no to 5 cases of red bull!
ssherrell (Posted 5/9/2008 2:48:44 PM)
My friend rented a hotel room for a night with 2 of her friends from class, and they stayed up all night preparing for 3 exams that they had the next day.
Brady (Posted 5/7/2008 12:10:04 AM)
Weird things I have done before:
1.Read my physics or chemistry chapters aloud and record them to my iPod (or much earlier; my casette tape player). For my commute home each weekend; I would play them and listen as I drove down the highway for a couple hours.
2.Print the chemistry Powerpoint slides to cardstock (4 to a page) and then cut them into flashcards. Punch a hole in top left corner and take them with me everywhere I got a chance to review the material.
Sounds weird, but works better than sleeping on your books!
VTA08 (Posted 5/1/2008 3:10:45 PM)
THE FIRST PART IS OK BUT THE SECOND PART IS MESSED UP
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