Energy drinks are definitely drinks. The energy bit is extremely dubious. Energy drinks are the result of highly developed science perfectly tuned to target the needs of tired students. Unfortunately that science is advertising psychology, and they spent far more on that than actually making the drinks. Mostly over-sugared food dye solutions. And those are the only kind of solutions they’ll give you. Sarah Connor could become a first year student and she’d still be more fiercely pursued by the energy drink companies than by the Terminator. In both cases they’re terribly synthetic things with a thin pretense of organics, and pretty bad for you in the long run.
Energy drinks sell the idea of more energy, not the reality. If there really was a fluid which made us more effective we’d already be drinking it with every meal. Instead energy drinks offer the feeling of achieving something by dropping dollars on multicoloured placebo effects.
Even if they did work — and the general scientific consensus is that they’re officially Not Great For You — all they’d be doing is running extra energy through your body. Not providing anything to help maintain that body. So even if you could work longer and harder because of brightly colored drinks you’re basically burning yourself out. Keeping the mind going while the body runs out of food? That’s not super-study, that’s zombification.
Even if an energy drink does nothing its effects are actively negative. Tricking yourself into staying up later, skipping meals, or sitting at a desk for another three hours when you’ve already been there for five: none of these things will actually improve your ability to work. An energy drink is never as effective as actual food. Or walking outside for a bit. Bite an apple. Eat a burger. Or just go to sleep.
Your brain isn’t trying to trick you out of marks by sleeping. It’s trying to sleep because it needs to. And since your brain does all the studying you might want to take its advice. If nothing else, consider the effect of guzzling a liter of fizzy soda on your bladder. And your ability to sit in an exam hall for hours.
Save your money for food, your time for sleep, and yourself from advertising.
Energy drinks sell the idea of more energy, not the reality. If there really was a fluid which made us more effective we’d already be drinking it with every meal. Instead energy drinks offer the feeling of achieving something by dropping dollars on multicoloured placebo effects.
Keeping the mind going while the body runs out of food? That’s not super-study, that’s zombification.
Even if they did work — and the general scientific consensus is that they’re officially Not Great For You — all they’d be doing is running extra energy through your body. Not providing anything to help maintain that body. So even if you could work longer and harder because of brightly colored drinks you’re basically burning yourself out. Keeping the mind going while the body runs out of food? That’s not super-study, that’s zombification.
Even if an energy drink does nothing its effects are actively negative. Tricking yourself into staying up later, skipping meals, or sitting at a desk for another three hours when you’ve already been there for five: none of these things will actually improve your ability to work. An energy drink is never as effective as actual food. Or walking outside for a bit. Bite an apple. Eat a burger. Or just go to sleep.
Your brain isn’t trying to trick you out of marks by sleeping. It’s trying to sleep because it needs to. And since your brain does all the studying you might want to take its advice. If nothing else, consider the effect of guzzling a liter of fizzy soda on your bladder. And your ability to sit in an exam hall for hours.
Save your money for food, your time for sleep, and yourself from advertising.
