Study Like a Champion and New Contest
Mohammad Friday, March 12, 2010 at 2:51PM
We would like to take this post to announce our partnership with Study Like a Champion. SLAC is a great company that produces clothing to motivate people to study, their hoodies, tee-shirts, and sweat bands are guaranteed to motivate you to study. In addition to that they have a great social initiative called the “SLAC Campus Fund” a part of all sales are allocated to this fund, which is for schools and other organizations that support class trips to college campuses for less privileged high schools, to promote a greater interest in higher education. SLAC is like a daily dose of motivation, whenever you feel your concentration slipping they are always their to get you back on track.
Their website is a great source for study playlists, motivational quotes, champion lessons, and champion hits. They have been generous enough to provide a new contest and coupon code for all of our readers.
Contest Details:
Submit your funniest/craziest studying story in the comments below (please include your email address in the email address field so that we can contact you if you win); the top two stories will win a SLAC study pack containing the following:
- SLAC T-Shirt
- Study Sweatbands
- Pump-Up Stickers
- Bookmarks
In addition to that the top two stories will be published on the SLAC facebook fan page. Winners will be announced March 29th, so get your stories in.
Also Pre-Med Hell readers will receive a special discount of 15% on all purchases through the end of March by using the coupon code SLACSTAR on their purchases.
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Reader Comments (2)
When I was a freshmen in college, I was very distracted by partying and video games. I had a big test coming up in my history class, so instead of studying the night before, I decided to have a few drinks and play halo with my roommate. Finally at 4 in the morning, both of us were tired and I decided to go to bed, completely prepared to fail the test. I set my alarm for 6am and woke up still drunk.
I pulled out my book and started skimping keywords. I Wikipedia'ed every keyword and printed them out. At 9am, it was time to catch the buss for my test at 10. I spent the next hour reading my Wikipedia notes and when it came time for the test I forgot to bring a "Blue Book" which was required to take the test. I ran to the closest campus bookstore and grabbed a blue book. Running back to class I felt absolutely horrible. I wanted to puke, but instead I pushed through and got to the class room.
As I took the test, I fell asleep twice. I remember waking up and looking down at scribbles all over my blue book. I was doomed. I BSed the rest of the test and turned it in. I spent the next 24 hours sleeping. I made a promise to myself to never do that again.
Funny part was, I made an 89 on the test. Guess the professor took the scribbles as answers??
In my second term of college I was also doing an EMT program through the local community college. Now as a part of that it included a clinical ambulance shift where I would work two 12 hour shifts with the company. However to keep it fair my instructor used a lottery system to choose what shifts we would work. The gods were apparently conspiring against me that day because I got the worse schedule out of anyone.
It was set so that I would be basically be getting off the first twelve hour shift just in time to go to my chemistry midterm followed by my music midterm. I then had six hours to eat and sleep before I would board back onto the ambulance for another twelve hours for the second clinical. I then again would get off just in time to go my biology midterm the next day. As much fun as that sounded, I then started begging other students to trade. But it was all to no avail so I grudgingly accepted my fate.
So faced with no other option, I talked to my supervising paramedic on the unit to see if it would be permissible to study while in the ambulance since there could potentially be a lot downtime. She said as long as I didn’t do it when we had a patient it would be alright. So I did just that.
Not many people I know could say that they were traveling 90mph down a freeway towards a car accident while cramming for a biology exam at the same time; but because of that first shift I can proudly proclaim this. Both nights were incredibly busy, almost zero down time. Never the less, I did well on all of the midterms, some could attribute this to the adrenaline rushes that were interspersed in my studying, other could attribute this to the four “five-hour energy” shots that fueled the whole ordeal. Regardless as to the cause, this was definitely my craziest studying experience.