You may be wondering how to be successful in school, but to do so you might need to consider thinking outside of the box. For example, think about how you naturally make yourself happy, which means doing what you want to do, and also how you fuel your memory. How do you get motivated, how do you register for classes in a beneficial way, and how can you get the most out of your homework? First, your memory can be improved and with just a little effort you can improve your grades. If you incorporate certain routines into your lifestyle, you can raise your IQ by fourteen points. Then discover how to be naturally motivated by removing the roadblocks and putting your own spin on your work. Sometimes students cheat and lie to get the grades they want because rules and regulations corner them. We need to understand how it's possible to have a dishonest character. In knowing this very important fact about ourselves, we will have options, and by giving options to people, they will naturally make wiser decisions. Finally, you must understand what benefits technology brings to students and how to take advantage of them.

How to Get the Grade Without Doing the Work

A Complete Guide on How to Make Excellent Grades in College While Not Doing the WorkBy Charles Lanham

iUniverse, Inc.

Copyright © 2010 Charles Lanham
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4502-2699-8

Contents

Preface.......................................................xiiiChapter One: How to Improve Memory............................1Chapter Two: Exercise.........................................10Chapter Three: Registering for Classes........................18Chapter Four: Help............................................26Chapter Five: Studying........................................34Chapter Six: Place and Time...................................43Intro: Cheating the System....................................53Chapter One: Methods of the Cheating..........................54Chapter Two: Skipping Whole Prerequisites.....................68Chapter Three: How to Avoid the Book..........................71Chapter Four: Attention Modifying Drugs.......................75Chapter Five: What Makes You Happy............................80End Notes.....................................................85

Chapter One

How to Improve Memory

When I got the idea for this book, I was having a great deal of trouble focusing in school. Eventually, I went to my doctor and said, "I just can't focus in school." Within the month, I had been put on Concerta (methylphenidate), and I had raised my grade from a 70 percent average to a 90 percent average. Thankfully, I did not abuse the drug and took just enough to get the concentration I desired, so I never had to deal with the classic "zombie" reaction I would have had to endure otherwise. To my disappointment, however, I rapidly started to build up a tolerance to the medication and became extremely worried. I did further research then, looking for an alternative remedy. Lo and behold, I found that there were a whole slew of things that could be done to enhance or control my focus, attention, mood, appetite, and everything else that my pills helped me with. I learned that I could change my diet to reduce my stress and anxiety levels, improving my situation. Also, I found that by regularly exercising my brain and body not only raised my IQ score but also stimulated my senses and made my personality genuinely happier.

Nutrition and Health

According to MedHelp.com, certain foods and supplements stimulate the production of dopamine in the brain. These special foods contribute to our ability to learn more effectively, improving our lives emotionally and physically.

There are several tips you can take to improve your memory and earn that difficult college degree; however, learning to your fullest starts with diet and exercise. First, establish a healthy diet into your daily routine. After you get comfortable with your lifestyle, add the exercise. If you don't eat right, then all the work in the world will not do you any good. Each day, eat one small meal every three hours and drink about eight cups of water, which will help increase mental endurance and help preserve your memory1.

You should also eat the right way at parties so that no one feels awkward. If you ever tried to tell ever one that you were dieting at a party, you may have noticed that everyone will feel gloomy or insulted. Also, by not eating certain things some people will try everything they can to get you to eat. Not eating the same as everyone else brings the conversation down, it distracts the focus of the crowd. In the end, it could draw your friends and family to make fun of you for the rest of the night-for eating weird.

It's been shown that protein improves mental performance. Carbohydrates make you feel calm and relaxed. Fat helps regulate memory and mood. Therefore, in the morning, eat proteins like chicken, salmon, and eggs, as well as carbohydrates like oatmeal, whole wheat, brown rice, and grits. Additionally, include foods high antioxidants in your diet, such as coffee beans, green tea, acai berries, and cocoa. Sleep well at night by avoiding stimulants and embrace foods high vitamin B, preferably green leafy substances like spinach or legumes. As I had said before, research has found doing this can raise your IQ by an average of fourteen points.

Protein

According to www.thethinkingbusiness.co.uk, "Neurotransmitters are made from amino acids found in protein foods." Eating foods high in protein benefits the brain by promoting the development of neurotransmitters, dopamine, and norepinepherine, which results in making you more alert and much better at complicated thinking.

The hormone dopamine makes us feel euphoric and also controls our appetite and motor movements. We feel focused when it is high, but when it falls to a low level, we feel a distinct lack of pleasure. Our world then suddenly looks colorless. We are afflicted with an inability to "love," and we have no remorse about personal behavior. Under the pressure of a certain situations, dopamine releases norepinephrine, and norepinepherine is a neurotransmitter that causes us to fight or run away. (It will direct the heart to race, and it plays a major part in vascular tone.) Therefore, the happier you are then respectively, the more efficiently you study, and the more effectively you learn. Consequently, you must use the best stimulants-proteins like chicken, eggs, lamb, and turkey.

Prominently found in chicken, phenylalanine is an essential amino acid that the body uses in the brain and blood plasma and that the body can convert into tyrosine, which in turn is used to synthesize dopamine. (Chicken is also a good source of coenzyme CoQ10, an antioxidant as well.)

Aside from stimulating dopamine and affecting our moods, eggs are also a great source of choline, which is essential for making acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter, or chemical brain messenger that is important to memory.

I also recommend eating moderate amounts of lamb and turkey. These meats are excellent sources of protein and various B vitamins. Turkey is rich in tryptophan, a precursor to the brain's neurotransmitter serotonin. Lamb is rich in selenium, which is a potent antioxidant that works together with other nutrients to help prevent brain cell damage-but more importantly, it's good for your thyroid.

In addition, omega-3 fatty acids are found in seafood, especially mackerel, salmon, striped bass, rainbow trout, halibut, tuna, and sardines, and these fatty acids may have many jobs in the body, including a possible role in the production of neurotransmitters. (Resent research at Princeton University and elsewhere have demonstrated that we certainly do grow new brain cells in certain parts of the brain.) According to Michael A. Schmidt omega-3 stimulates the growth of existing brain cells7, protects brain cells from harmful chemicals like trans fats (trans fats are vegetable oil that has been heated to a high temperature or hardened into margarine, shortening, or something similar, which is the choice product for nearly all processed foods and is cheap to market) or phosphoric acid, and encourages the formation of branches and synapses-not to mention the fact that fish have easily digestible protein, many trace nutrients, high-quality and essential fatty acids, low cholesterol levels, and low saturated fat levels. (Children who don't get enough omega-3 in their early developmental periods may have lower IQs later in life.)

Carbohydrates

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