Drinking Beer, is it a party starter or is it the newest way to study? As a adventurous college student that I am, I explore on the weekends. I go out to parties happening outside of campus. There i have noticed that many of these parties have beer for the older students here to drink so they have a great time. I noticed the effects that beer has on some of them, making them do stupid and crazy things. Such as attempt to do a back flip inside or seeing if you can punch a hole through the wall. All funny and great stories to be told later but ultimately just bad decision making by them. So can beer really help me in doing well in school?

In this study that science direct put up shows a scenario of people who were drinking versus people who stayed sober through the entire article. Results showed that the sober did do better on the test they took afterwards but according to further studies the people who drank developed more creative ideas and they solved problems faster then sober ones did. After going through the study the conclusion was drinking beer helps when doing things that need creativity such as writing, inventing or coming up with ideas. The flip side doing math or science will actually be harder since you cant think logically. You might come to a solution some how but you couldn’t explain it if you tried.

A similar article was released by Iowa State stating that drinking beer is better while studying than drinking coffee. The article talks about the benefits drinking beer does for you while drinking coffee gives you energy but not the creative and intuitive problem solving skills that alcohol gives people. 

So the next time you have to sit down and write that boring long essay crack open a beer and start drinking and watch the creative process happen before your eyes. Just be sure to check your work when your sober so it make sense before you hand it in.