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A Little Support Goes Far 📣

Hello Hilom Fam!👋 Happy Monday! Today's stories are about the people who help us through nerve-racking moments and the funny little brain glitch that makes us forget why we entered a room.

Law students and supporters cheering for Bar examinees outside a testing center

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The People Who Showed Up to Cheer

Outside Bar examination sites, law students and supporters gathered to cheer for examinees walking into an already stressful day. They may not know every…

Outside Bar examination sites, law students and supporters gathered to cheer for examinees walking into an already stressful day. They may not know every person entering the building, but they still lent their voices, signs, and energy. They could not take the exam for them. They could only make sure nobody had to enter feeling entirely alone.

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Person standing in a doorway after forgetting why they entered the room

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Why We Forget After Entering a Room

You walk into another room, stop, and suddenly forget what you came there to do. A TED-Ed lesson explains that this may be connected to the doorway effect. Our…

You walk into another room, stop, and suddenly forget what you came there to do. A TED-Ed lesson explains that this may be connected to the doorway effect. Our brains can treat entering a new space as the start of a different event, making the previous thought harder to retrieve. So hindi ka nag-iisa. Baka kasalanan talaga ng pinto.

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Hope this week brings you people who make difficult moments feel a little less intimidating.