Are you having problems focusing on your exams? The problem is common according to a study by the University of British Columbia that suggests that people's minds wander 15 to 20 percent of the time while reading. Furthermore, the study also suggests that it’s an agent for creativity, “it's unconstrained, it can go anywhere, which is sort of the perfect situation for creative thought,'' the study’s researchers said. (As an aside-Perhaps it’s simply the mundane way textbooks are written that causes the distraction. I always find that every sentence needs to be focused on for some vital piece of information, as if the facts are all stacked together. Why can’t the rigid paragraphs be shaken up with some literary devices or even some colloquialisms thrown in? One day I’d like to read an academic textbook that ends an impressive scientific fact with: “Pretty fuckin' wild eh?” Chances are the shift in language would ensure that you’d remember that fact for a long time (Isn’t memorization the reason we read textbooks anyway? Doesn’t the best form of writing require an understanding of how the mind of someone’s works? To allow oneself to connect different correlations through word association or ideas one begins to create layers of thought while spiraling to the centre of an exhaustive correlation (I don’t see mind-wandering as a “train of thought” so I much rather use the example of an onion. I believe an onion symbolizes the multiple layers a mind-wanderer must go through (and I can assert that since my mind wanders so much that I’ve been accused of “Attention Deficit Disorder” by family and friends who’ve volunteered their diagnosis (since I’ve never really bothered visiting a psychologist about my problem (a decision I made after reading that many psychologists were misdiagnosing patients, which increased the sales for Renilin, a company whose drug supposedly allows people to focus better (they probably paid the doctors off for the recommendation too. It’s been reported that many drug companies provide doctors with gifts ranging from free pens to free dinners (I can also confirm this because I was in a relationship with a pharmacist who tried to bring me to one of these dinners and she told me the entire dinner was just a big advertisement for some particular drug they wanted her to recommend. Surprisingly, she was okay with suggesting it to customers (Probably because she did some on the side and seemed indifferent to their danger (Although, to her credit, she did feel guilty once when she kept supplying over-the-counter cough syrup to a couple of guys addicted to the dextromethorphan found inside the syrup for a few days in a row (The addicted men would even take the drug in the pharmacy’s public washroom (which kind of illustrates how messed up the system has gotten. After all, they are legal drug dealers trying to keep their business alive through sales (Blame capitalism and health care that depends on a billion dollar industry (Pharmasave, Shopper’s Drugmart, London Drugs…etc. They’re all in it for a profit. Even the grocery stores sell drugs (Why get Flinstone’s Vitamin C pills when fresh oranges are in the next aisle over? If you have chronic pain a lot of it can be healed with quercetin which is abundant in onions! Onions are also a natural remedy for attention deficit disorder and have been shown to help students focus on their dreary conventional technically-written textbooks and not get distract by layers and layers of thought (Pretty fuckin' wild eh?) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ).