AuthorMargot B ('18)
BONUS: Nighttime snacks to help you sleep: Here are some ideas: Yogurt Banana Whole-grain, low-sugar cereal Tea Emergen-zzzz drink packets: they are infused with melatonin and will make you sleep through the whole night! Herbal, non-caffeinated tea
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Author:Hilary R ('19) Quick activities to do when taking a break from homework. We’ve all been there; struggling to finish the last pages of the math homework or making america reading or cramming our outline for our shakespeare paper. Our brain is slowly shutting down but we tell ourselves to stick with it because we dread the possibility of going to bed later than what we promised ourselves we would earlier. Take a breath and realize, you need to take a break. Breaks are necessary and critical to staying focused and engaged in your work. You should also explore the various distraction free apps that are on every Urban students computer. Here are some activities that you should and should not do when you’re struggling to recalibrate your brain during homework. 1. Have a dance party in your room! This is super easy. Get up from your chair, play a song or two that you can dance around your room to. You could even create a playlist (or follow one on HIPEs’ spotify) that includes all of your fave music that you know will get you out of your chair and onto the dancefloor in your room. If you have a playlist, if you put it on shuffle, anytime you take a break you will listen to a new song so that you don’t get bored with your personal dance party. 2. Get a snack! Even just the process of getting up and walking to the kitchen and back to your study spot is enough time for your brain to calibrate and reboot itself so that you can finish your study session 3. Stretch! So maybe you aren’t in the mood to blast beyonce in the space that you are studying or aren’t able to. Take 2-3 min to just stretch. This will get the blood flowing throughout your body again if you have been sitting for a long time. THINGS TO AVOID DOING: 1. Eat Junk Food When you go for a snack, try to go for something that will keep your energy up instead of giving you a sugar high. The high levels of sugar or caffeine will cause your system to crash throughout your study session. 2. Staying in front of a screen Try to distance yourself from technology when taking your break because the glare from the screen could make it difficult to break away from the cyber world and get back to your work. We hope these tips help you during a future study sesh! ~ HIPE <3 Author:Clara M ('18) Finals week is one of the most stressful times of the term. Late-nights spent studying, frantic essay writing, and the complaints emanating from the old library come together to create palpable stress. Although you can never completely get rid of pre-finals anxiety below are some HIPE-approved survival tips to try and reduce aforementioned stress:
Good luck, and go blues, <3 <3 <3 HIPE Author:Lily N ('18) It’s four o’clock, and your tummy is grumbling. You want a snack so badly, but you never know what to make because it’s close enough to dinner time that you don’t want to ruin your appetite. You also take so long to decide on a snack, that by the time you’ve actually made one, you’ve already wasted precious minutes of time you could have been spending on your Spanish homework. This is the precise moment when you need a healthy snack from Trader Joe’s to keep your brain cranking. I am OBSESSED with Trader Joe’s bountiful snack collection, so I wanted to share some of my favorites with you. As a cross country runner, I eat about seven meals a day. Well, honestly they’re not all really meals, they’re just larger snacks that keep me running (literally and metaphorically) throughout the day. My vegan diet adds an additional challenge. Therefore, this post will include snack ideas for people with diet restrictions, including gluten, dairy, soy, and nuts. I have divided the snacks into categories based on mood-influenced cravings in order to make the decision a little easier for you. Just Hungry With Moderate Energy Levels
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