Articles by Angela Medvedeva

Aug 1, 2015

How to Recharge Your Brain: Raise Neurotransmitter Levels

Dopamine is known for its role in addiction and behavior reinforcement, which means that when present, it encourages repeated episodes of drug use or other activities. This also means that dopamine is…

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Jul 31, 2015

Balance your Internship and Classes

1) Use your summers for career development The summer is the best time for career development because you can dedicate more time to your internship. You can start a new internship, or you can show…

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Jul 30, 2015

How to Pursue Your Interests Through Professors

1. Find a Professor The first step is introspection: decipher the knowledge in which you are lacking and -from that- what you would like to know. It is also possible to learn how to do something, so…

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Jul 2, 2015

The Fatigue Epidemic

What is Fatigue? We experience fatigue as three different dimensions: mental, physical, and emotional. Mental fatigue is what we feel after exerting ourselves cognitively, using the knowledge and…

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Jun 30, 2015

Is the world still sexist?

Benevolent vs. Hostile Sexism Sexism is an attitude, which means that it can be expressed as a thought, an emotion, or an action that shows a bias toward one sex over the other. All people exhibit…

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Jun 25, 2015

Office Romances: A good idea or not?

Not Rocking the Boat We are often tempted to seek out intimacy where we spend our time: in recreational activities, classes, and work. These are the places in which we find ourselves surrounded by…

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May 30, 2015

What Makes a Good Horror Film: The "Jump" Moment

Arousal is sometimes mistaken for fear because the two often go hand in hand, but arousal is the physiological response to what is occurring in a horror film (a “jump”), while the fear is what may…

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May 29, 2015

4 Things to Think About Before Accepting an Internship

1) To accept or not to accept If you have already been hired for an internship and have time to think about it before accepting, think long and hard about whether or not you want it. This was one of…

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May 29, 2015

Time Management Tips for Getting Healthy Now

Drop the sugar In the middle of finals week of my first semester of college, I noticed that I had started eating one-item meals from the nearest cafe in the form of bagels, cookies, and cakes. My…

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