Now this is what I call pure genius. Why didn’t I think of
this when I was a college student struggling to stay awake all night? As you
can see in the pictures, these Chinese university students have resorted to
tying up their hair using clothespins. Every time they nod off, the pins will
pull on their hair, jerking them awake.
The technique became popular after two students at the
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in Fujian province uploaded pictures
of themselves on Weibo. Chen Tang, 20 and her roommate Huang Lu, 21, had been
struggling with a huge workload and needed a quick fix to fight the urge to
nap.
They had tried the regular methods – caffeine, push-ups and
cranking up the air-conditioning – but none of that worked. That’s when they
decided to hit the history books for a solution. Chen and Huang read about two
famous Chinese scholars who practiced extreme methods to keep their minds
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