Useful Memory Devices for Students Many students are studying to earn a business degree, accounting degree, networking degree or computer programming degree, but there are quite a few students that aren’t sure what they can do to improve their memory. Earning a degree is hard work. While there may not necessarily be any “easy roads” to being able to remember everything a teacher might say, it is possible to improve your memory and to use your natural memory to serve you in your endeavor.
Health Tips There are a few things you’ll want to remember: getting enough sleep and keeping a proper diet will be two of the best things you can do for yourself. As a student, these things might not always be a possibility, but try—it probably won’t be as hard as you think. Getting to bed a little earlier might seem like it will interfere with the time that you spend studying or with friends, but you probably won’t miss the time all that much when you realize how beneficial that extra sleep is. Then there’s the issue of diet. The average student usually eats whatever is available in whatever quantities available, but you should keep an eye on a couple of things if you’re looking to enhance your memory. Beans, seeds and nuts are good things, since they are high in magnesium. This helps your brain record and remember things that you learn. Sometimes, a proper diet can be had from on-campus dining, but that usually isn’t enough by itself. You should take it upon yourself now to eat what you need in order to take the best care of your brain.
Study Methods The other things that you can do to help your memory deal more with how you study—you can’t just eat a few cans of nuts and wind up with a photographic memory. Like anything, you need to work at it one day at a time. Some of the most basic things you can do are thing like finding mnemonic devices—words, phrases or songs that you can memorize quickly that serve your needs. Other things are the basics that you learned in your early childhood education: flashcards and basic repetition. Both of these techniques will help you take the knowledge you have in your short-term memory and help it move to long-term memory.
Increased Memory Capacity By combining these two aspects: the basic things like getting enough sleep and eating the right things, along with memory-focused study techniques, you can have a much greater memory capacity than before. You’re treating your brain right, and working it out. The more you do that, the better it will treat you.
Very few people have what you’d call a “photographic memory.” If you’re reading this, it’s pretty likely that you’re one of the people that don’t. Although you won’t be able to recite long pieces of poetry in your first week, you will be able to improve your memory to the point that these things will give you few problems. Eventually, you will get to that point if you keep working at it. Photo Credit: catalin82 , shho