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Torture of study
Youth Voice: What to you do when studying leaves a thrumming in your head?
Studying fries the brain cells and turns your frontal lobes into mush. Well, it must do. How else can it be that when I’m sitting there five minutes after opening a book, I feel like my head’s been draped with a wet tea cloth?
Chemistry, now there’s a subject designed by a cruel evil mastermind. When am I ever going to want to know the molecular configuration of C5H12 in real life? Sure, I might someday want to explode uranium but not that.
And the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins? Not so 'manly' in my view if he won’t shut up his whining about how he’s so depressed and blah blah blah. So you can see why trying to study can be hard for me. I’m sure it must be for you too – so I’ve put together some tips to help you combat the studying blues:
1. Have music blasting really loud until your mum or dad come in and demand angrily that you turn it off. Tell them you can’t study without it. Insist on this until you hear those sweet words – “Then stop studying!”
2. Draw little pictures at the side of the page of you as a little stickman setting fire to your books and dancing around it like some tiny pagan ritualist.
3. Go for many, many tea breaks to break up the time.This works doubly as it means you’ll be on the flusher half the day too.
4. Always have a good supply of magazines to tide you over and the right size to hide beneath your Chemistry book.
5. Of course, you could always try to do some actual studying … See the exam section for tips!
By: Miriam Needham
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