More and more students are taking ‘smart pills’ to help boost their results in exams — but are they safe, asks Tariq Tahir in ‘The Times Online’.
Gemma is a recent Oxford University graduate. As a student of experimental psychology, she wrote three essays a week, in addition to spending 40 hours in lectures and labs. [...]
One consequence of reading Margaret Talbot’s New Yorker piece on neuro-enhancing drugs is that it made we want some.
(Indeed, the piece itself had a nice way of pulling this off, since my attention span is so addled by the Internet that it took me about three sittings to finish it.)
But in addition to all sorts [...]
One in ten Cambridge University students have admitted to taking drugs to help them study.
A survey conducted by Varsity revealed that students have been using non-prescription drugs to improve their concentration and alertness.
A third-year student who started using a concentration-enhancing drug several weeks ago said: “Modafinil has undoubtedly aided my concentration.”
Since then she has been [...]
A young man I’ll call Alex recently graduated from Harvard.
As a history major, Alex wrote about a dozen papers a semester. He also ran a student organization, for which he often worked more than forty hours a week; when he wasn’t on the job, he had classes.
Weeknights were devoted to all the schoolwork that he [...]