REAL AGE TIP OF THE DAY:

Sweet Memories
If you're trying to retain newly learned information, make sure you get a good night's sleep.
In a recent study, people who were trained to perform a task had a better performance on tests of the new skill after a night's sleep, compared to testing after several hours awake. Sleep may help with the process of consolidating and storing memories, researchers speculate.

That just reminded me of elementary school. First to fourth grade, we'd have to memorize something every week, usually a poem. Of course, we started out with short poems and then worked our way up to more difficult ones, but that's not the point. The point is that I'd always be one of the people to remember it perfectly, and that's only because my dad would make me memorize it, recite it to make sure it is memorized, and then I'd wait a few hours without looking at it, and if I still had it right after that (I'd obviously have to recite it to him again) he'd make me go to sleep because, acording to him, that's the best way to remember things. Later on, he couldn't "make" me go to sleep anymore, but I always did do better if I got enough sleep after repeating it the second time. Otherwise I'd struggle in the morning to remember it.

So. How's about that.

Room mate - 10/27/2005
Worst ever - 07/21/2005
Goth - 05/29/2005
Bad Baby - 05/25/2005
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