Six years ago I remember standing in the kitchen of my 13-year old “little brother” (I was part of a big-brother-little brother program at the time), watching him simultaneously participate in 6 IM chats on AOL. I watched in disbelief as he responded to each of his friends. How on earth could he focus on 6 conversations at once? My mind could not grasp that possibility. Was this a new kind of mind, a new type of consciousness? Suddenly I felt like my parents must feel when they call on me to help them understand some new technological development. I felt dated.

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How many times do you have to lose your keys before you start playing Sudoku or tackling the daily NY Times crossword puzzle to keep your mind sharp? Just ask a baby boomer: they’ll surely have the answer. The boomers have learned to keep their aging minds honed through cognitive challenges, as well as through a host of funky sounding supplements such as Ginko Biloba and St. John’s Wort. But there are other ways to keep the mind healthy. According to the neuroscientists at the most recent Learning and the Brain conference, the most direct way to maintain the mind, and encourage higher order cognition and executive functions (e.g. planning, organizing, problem solving), may be to take better care of our physical bodies.

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I’m not talking about a year of ill-fitting jeans or a part-time job selling cotton tanks and cargo pants. I am referring to taking a year “off” between high school and college. The gap year, as it is affectionately termed, is nothing new to Europeans and Australians. Students began taking a year off from academics to pursue travel and volunteering as early as the 1960s. Throughout the last four decades, interest has continued to grow, and more and more companies have emerged offering Gap Year guidance and planning.

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Regardless of what your friends call you, when you register for the SAT or ACT to apply for colleges, please use your full, legal name. Even if it is Herbie Leslie Wilcox Jackson (no offense if this name actually belongs to a person). You will save yourself a lot of trouble. Remember, when you go to take your SAT or ACT, you have to show your picture ID. If your ID says one thing, like Herbie Leslie Wilcox Jackson, but you registered with the testing company as “Bruiser,” the officials may not let you take the test. Even worse, you might slip by on test day, but when it comes to reporting results, you may find yourself in a pickle. You might have to jump through a lot of hoops to prove that “Bruiser” and “Herbie” are one and the same. And, when it comes to college applications, most have place for you put down your nickname.

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