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...that in the realm of academics, there is a growing trend, both in high school and in college, of students abusing prescription drugs to boost their ability to study and concentrate on tests. Use of any type of prescription drug for cognitive gain should be looked down upon with the same amount of social repugnance as juicing up for a sport...
Final exams are upon us, here at Harvard. For the typical Harvard student, the pressures to succeed come from all directions: parents, peers, and prospective employers. Those who procrastinate, or feel the need to cram, might choose to swallow a pill in order to be able to study later or more efficiently. You might argue that this is in the name of academia and that nobody gets hurt when people learn more. Yet, in the age where there are pills available for everything, from weight loss to mood elevation, it seems that people are all too willing to forgo hard...
...Professor Robert A. Stickgold, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center! You just completed a study that found dreaming about a task helps you perform better on it. Now that reading period is upon us, do you think dreaming about our exams helps us get better grades...
...success of a student’s time in a foreign country is largely based upon the personal initiative taken before the trip, according to Alexandra M. Wilcox...
...National Academy of Sciences, which now counts 2,097 members and 409 foreign associates among its ranks, was founded in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln to “‘investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art’ whenever called upon to do so by any department of the government,” according to the Academy’s website. The scientists are often asked to investigate matters relevant to public policy...