How To Get The Most Out Of College

By Hedrick Lepsch


With all of the stresses that come from cramming and rushing from one class to another, how can you really get much if anything out of college? There are some crucial ways that you can internalize what you are learning. Here are some tips to getting the most out of college.

Enjoy it

Origins and Evolution

Increasing the number of paths to any given piece of information increases your ability to access that information from any point instead of having to arrive at it through a single pathway each time. The aging process causes these synapses and pathways can deteriorate and fade, leaving us struggling to remember simple things like names or dates. The more unique pathways we can create, the stronger our minds will stay.

Dancing for Long Term Mental Health

Roughly a decade ago the New England Journal of Medicine posted a study they completed entitled, "Leisure Activities and the Risk of Dementia in the Elderly". The study examined a population of elderly participants as they engaged in various physical and cognitive leisure activities. Over the course of 21 years, the study collected data on activities from reading and doing crosswords to swimming, golfing, and dancing.

Have goals

Sometimes it takes just one step in front of the other. There are way too many students out there that get lost in the minute details and forget to focus their studies around their goals. If you have a goal whether it is work or some area that you want to end up going into then you will be able to better remember what you study.

Modern Methods

While choreographed dancing provides an excellent form of exercise, it requires that you follow the same neural pathways over and over to reach the information you need to move. Social dancing whether Ballroom, Swing, or Latin, requires that the individual examine a myriad of external triggers including music, spacial awareness, and non-verbal communication from their dance partner and then process and respond to that information. All of this is happening in a fraction of a second and is repeated over and over during the course of a standard three or four minute song.

For those of us who dance socially, we understand that no dance is ever the same. Even if you were to dance six times in a row to the same song with the same person, the dance will look and feel differently each time. This means that every single dance is allowing you to create thousands of new neural paths, which strengthens and protects your mind from decay.

Mental acuity is just one of the benefits of social dancing. Whether you're a student working toward a graphic arts degree or you've already graduated and are part of the workforce, everyone can participate and take advantage of the many perks of social dancing. Get smart! Start dancing!




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