In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: The first thing you should do is make sure that you're sleeping properly. When you don't get enough sleep, your brain doesn't work as well and all the studying in the world isn't going to make a difference. You'll have to put the parties and hanging out aside for a while until you feel better about your studying. New scientific studies have shown that when we sleep, our body goes through a sort of cleaning cycle where our brains get flushed of all the bad stuff that shouldn't be there. When you don't get enough sleep, this bad stuff builds up and makes your brain work a lot worse. Adults need around 8 hours of sleep while teenagers need 10. Children ages 12 and under should get 11 hours of sleep. Experimenting to see how many hours of sleep you need is a good idea. Everybody is different so don't feel the need to strictly follow a guideline. Eating a healthy, balanced diet is also important. Your body needs lots of different nutrients in order to work right and when you don't have those nutrients, it can be hard to focus and absorb information. Eating balanced meals doesn't just mean eating a lot of kale (although kale is really good for you). It mostly means making sure that you're eating a lot of different foods in healthy proportions. You have to adjust for your particular lifestyle, but a good balance to start with is: 30% vegetables. Lean towards dark greens like kale, chard, spinach, and broccoli, since these have more nutrients in them. 20% fruits. Try to choose nutrient-rich fruits, like citrus fruits and kiwi, or fruits which are high in fiber, like apples, pears, and bananas. 30% whole grains. Choose nutrient-rich grains like brown rice, quinoa, and oatmeal, and look for whole grain products whenever you do eat any grain. 20% protein. Try to choose lean proteins when you eat meat (turkey, chicken, and fish) and complete proteins when you eat other protein-rich foods (you'll need to mix foods like nuts, lentils, and beans to get a complete protein, or eat whole soybeans like soy nuts and edamame). Limit your dairy intake. Most nutrients that you get from dairy products you can get just as easily from other sources. Dairy products tend to be very fatty, so when you do eat them, choose low-fat versions. You'll want to be sure you get enough calcium, though, so eat calcium rich foods like kale, collard greens, and sardines. You probably know that your body is made up mostly of water, so you're probably not surprised to hear that getting enough water will be very important for helping you focus. Dehydration will give you problems focusing and if you can't focus, then you're going to have a really hard time remembering. A good rule of thumb is that you'll know you've had enough water when your urine comes out pale or occasionally clear. Eight 8 oz glasses a day is what everyone says, but it's not actually good for you. Too much water can cause serious, and sometimes fatal conditions, like water intoxication, or hypernatremia. Have a bottle of water with you, but don't drink too much. Only drink when you're thirsty. When you study, do what you can to wear clothes that are comfortable. This will let you focus all of your attention on your work, rather than breaking your focus to worry about heat, cold, or your pants pinching you in that spot you don't want to talk about. Coffee, 5 Hour Energy, Red Bull.whatever your poison is, be careful when you pick it. Caffeine does help you study...but only if you drink it after studying. If taken before you study, it can make you too jittery to focus properly. Caffeine also has lots of other downsides, so try not to rely on caffeine in general. Negative side effects of caffeine include caffeine addiction, headaches, dehydration, fatigue, anxiety, and disruption of your sleep cycle.
Summary: Get plenty of sleep. Eat balanced meals. Drink plenty of water. Wear comfortable clothing. Use caffeine carefully.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: " In pilish, the number of letters in each word stands for the corresponding number in pi. For example, "May I have a large container of coffee beans" = 314159265 in pilish. In 1996, Mike Keith wrote a short story called "Cadaeic Cadenza" in which some 3800 digits of pi were encoded. Keith also developed a method of using words longer than 10 letters to represent sequences of numbers. A piem is a poem that encodes pi in its words, using the pilish method. Typically, they rhyme for the purposes of memorization and have titles of three letters, representing the 3 that begins pi. A piem: Now I will a rhyme construct, / By letter count, the young instruct. / Cunningly devised endeavors, / Con it and remember ever. / Widths in circle here you see, / Sketched out in strange obscurity. Many schoolyard mnemonics have developed over the years to help memorize the first several digits of pi: Cosine, secant, tangent, sine / Three point one four one five nine. This mnemonic relies on using the rhythm and pattern to recall the memorized numbers. Lots of other memorization songs use the same technique: "If numbers had a heaven / their God would surely be / 3.14159 / 26535." The ABC tune, aka "Baa-Baa Black Sheep," aka "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star": 3 1 4 1 5 9 2 / 6 5 3 5 8 9 / 7 9 3 2 3 8 4 / 6 2 6 4 3 3 8 / 3 2 7 9 5 0 2 / 8 8 4 1 9 7 1 Try writing your own song or rhyme to help yourself remember. Derivatives of the major system are used by some of the best mnemonists in the world. This extraordinarily complex technique involves substituting each digit or group of digits for a corresponding word that is phonetically similar, and eventually building a story or a series of linkages out of those words.
Summary:
Write out sentences in "pilish. Write poems in pilish. Rhyme to memorize. Try learning the major system.