<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/magazine/fall-2006/benefit-brain-based.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>The Benefit of Brain-Based</title><excerpt>Bruce Lewolt ’77 is still annoyed he didn’t find out how to study until his last year of college. “I took a class on learning theory and was upset that no one had ever explained there were strategies for learning things faster and remembering them longer,” he says. The economics and business major had a busy schedule: he was student body president, he served on the presidential search committee, and he spent a semester in Washington, D.C., working for the joint economic committee of Congress. Study tips would have helped.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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