Fun Student Facts
1. Students who eat a complete breakfast (as well as eat more berries) tend to get higher grades in school than students who do not.
2. Students today spend more time doing homework than ever in recorded history.
3. A Canadian university has built a "Puppy Room" in its campus, where students can go and play with puppies to relieve stress and tension.
4. Students who study with text in difficult-to-read fonts like Comic Sans get better grades.
5. Students who chew gum have better math test scores than those who do not, a study found.
6. Michelangelo was hit in the nose as a teenager by Pietro Torrigiano, a fellow art student at an art academy in Florence. The incident left him with a permanently crooked nose.
7. Students today spend more time on homework than ever in recorded history.
8. Female students in China outperform men to such an extent that some universities have introduced a male quota.
9. Our student section decided to storm the court....after every basket. They got kicked out after our 6th point." -NSHA
10. Students who do their homework by themselves instead of constantly asking for help get higher scores on tests, according to a study.
11. Students with standing desks are more attentive than their seated counterparts, according to a study.
12. LSD was legal for decades, was given to undergraduate psychiatry students as part of their education and was used to treat alcoholism.
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