whistler’s blog

This concept has been told and retold before, but I didnt get a chance to blog about it. Most of the year at AUS, it is unbearably hot outside, each time you enter a building you thank God for creating AC. Its usually quite cold inside buildings.

During a typical day a typical student has to go through several typical “sun crossings”. You get out of a building and walk in the burning sun to get to your next class. While in the sun your head expands, as your brain expands you feel smarter for a while (when not in a class). But within a couple of minutes you are in AC again and your head shrinks and by this time you are sitting in a class. Because of the contraction of your brain you feel really dumb.

As this cycle continues throughout the semester, numerous expansions and contractions of brain result in the weathering of the brain similar to what happens to rocks in the desert. During the day heat expands the rock, at night the cold contracts the rock, this creates stress in a very thin outer layer of the rock which then peels off. Overtime rocks just become sand. But the brain weathering I am talk about is much faster than the so called “onion skin weathering” because expansions and contractions happen to our brains multiple times a day instead of once as in the case of rocks.

So by the end of a semester it is perfectly normal to feel much more dumb than you were at the start of the semester.