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How to Rebuild Your Attention Span Before Finals
You sit down to study. You read a paragraph. You check your phone. You read the same paragraph again. If that sounds familiar, it's not just you, and it's not permanent.
Psychologist Gloria Mark found that the average time people spend on one screen before switching dropped from about two and a half minutes in 2004 to roughly 47 seconds in more recent studies. The good news? Attention works more like a muscle than a fixed trait. Finals are about six to eight weeks away, which is exactly enough time to build it back up. Here's the plan.
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Students in Canada Love Thea! Let's Take a Trip
Every month we visit one corner of the map where Thea students are thriving. This month: Canada. Where school runs in two official languages, every province writes its own rules, and midterms land right after Thanksgiving (yes, in October). We look at how Canadian students study, and pick up a few tips worth importing.
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