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...happens to everyone, even Ivy Leaguers: the sweaty palms, the nervous twitch, the frantic sideways glances, the stuttering. Your reputation as a human being is at stake, and your mind conveniently decides to go blank...
Yale winger Jay Quenville took a point-blank range outside of the crease that rebounded into a two-on-one break for the Crimson. Freshman center Dominic Moore led the rush down the right wing with Bala charging down the middle...
This was a far cry from last week when it was Bala's point-blank shot that ricocheted into a Golden Knight two-on-one that produced the deciding goal...
...what about those times when they experience a total blank? Says Hamlin: "A number of problems are not problems with memory at all. They are really problems with your attention." There are three basic steps in memory: registration, retention and retrieval. They occur sequentially; if new information isn't taken in (registered), it can't be stored. Focusing on incoming material, whether heard, seen or read, helps implant it in memory. Psychologist Cynthia Green advises students in her memory classes at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical Center that "often what we think we forgot we really didn...
...soon as we get over the initial awe of seeing skin all stretched to kingdom come, what's uneasy about the pictures is the composure of the subjects: unflustered, comfortable, blank. Since these are self-portraits, we know that the models are happy to sit for the camera or cameras, and probably remain themselves unscathed. As in funhouse mirrors there is therefore an uncanny disjuncture between what you see and what they feel, and we're hard-pressed not to gather the skins in our minds' eyes back into something a little more presentable. Picking out bits here and there...