Random tricks that will probably make your exam season better
Exam season is officially upon us – a time for cutting corners in the health and cleanliness areas of your life in order to open up more time for studying, final papers, and crying after too many hours in the library. This is the time where you either sleep in the clothes you were wearing yesterday or leave the house in your pyjamas. This is the time when you give up on the concept of real food and sustain yourself only on things that come out of a bag or wrapper.
So, here are a few tips from Pinterest to make cutting corners even easier.
Make your chip bag into a chip bowl.
No more chip crumbs all over your arms. No more chip grease covering your sleeves. Simply open the bag of chips and roll the bottom corners into the inside of the bag. Continue rolling the corners in until the bottom is sort of flat and shaped like a circle. Ideally, the chips will be at the top of the bag by this point, so you can set down your chip bag-bowl and eat without the mess. When it starts to look like you’ve eaten too much and you start to feel guilty, simply roll in the corners a bit more, and voila! The chips are back at the top of the bag-bowl and you feel justified in continuing to eat (which is great, since this is probably your breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the day).
Eliminate stress headaches and back pain
Apparently, you can eliminate a stress headache by lying with your legs straight up in the air for five minutes. The “pin” in question suggests putting two pillows up against an open wall to prop up your lower back, and then lying with your legs up on the wall. Although I’m sceptical of the efficacy of this specific exercise, this is a great concept in general. If you have a stress headache, you probably need to do something besides study. Your notes will still be there later. Take a break – you deserve it.
Use Wikipedia without sorting through useless information
Do you need to know the barebones explanation of a concept or term without knowing the entire history of its discovery, usage, and development? Simply replace the “en.” of any Wikipedia URL with “simple.” You will then be presented with a two or three sentence explanation of whatever it is you need to know.
Make a brownie (or cookie) in less than five minutes
Are you desperately craving chocolate or baked goods, but don’t have time (read: are too lazy) to make a whole batch? Just use a microwave-safe mug and a very small amount of ingredients to end up with an individual serving of your favourite fix. For a microwave brownie, mix 1/4 c. sugar, 1/4 c. flour, 2 tbsp. cocoa, 2 tbsp. vegetable oil, and 3 tbsp. water in a mug and microwave for 1 minute and 40 seconds. That’s it. Yes, really. For a chocolate chip mug-cookie, mix 1 tbsp. butter, 1 tbsp. white sugar, 1 tbsp. brown sugar, 3 drops vanilla extract, 1 egg yolk, 1/4 c. flour, and 2 tbsp. chocolate chip in a mug and microwave for 1 minute.