Very Interesting...

[tcepsa]

Inspired by a friend, I decided to try an experiment today. At lunch, I drank three glasses of Mountain Dew. It's been a little over two hours, and so far I haven't been feeling jittery or hyper... if anything, I've been concentrating better (I reviewed a 7-ish page document without checking my e-mail or LJ once--highly unusual ;)

I realize that that's hardly a large enough data set for it to be statistically significant, but I'm very tempted to do further research into the results of caffeine on me.

Comments

[reedrover]

I don't think the portion that comes after the because in that sentence is actually correct.

::laugh:: You have far better information than Mom does/did, and I'm quite willing to be told I'm (she's) wrong. I expect the true "because" was something more like "because they got to tear down the hallway to the snack machine at top speed and burn off some of their squirmies."

I have no trouble believing that my mother made up the ADHD body/brain/caffeine claim to protect herself and her students. She made many choices that other teachers found odd and borderline heretical, but from what I understand, those choices often resulted in kids who were actually enthusiastic about her and her classes.