I’m exhausted today.  Somewhere between the clamorous drunken belligerence of a few over-compensating males in the apartment across the street and the dick of a bird in the tree outside my open window (who also seemed to be shouting at a near intoxicated-human level), I was robbed of sleep and rest for most of the night.  Needless to say this 8 hour workday (on the day of the NFL draft, no less) is dragging slower than a half-frozen knuckle-walker covered in molasses.  It may be due to this exhaustion that I’m intrigued by the articles that I’ve been able to read today, especially those concerned with the use of Adderall as a neuro-enhancer and productivity inducer.  Turns out, however, that reading about others using adderall to increase productivity does not actually increase productivity for the reader.  I was much dismayed by this fact.Look or sound like someone you know?So I might as well be candid about this whole thing because I’ve tried this method before.  It was only a couple times but it worked.  I would have gotten much better grades had I done it regularly, but I had enough to deal with without frying my brain.  (Which would have happened. One of the things I learned in college is that my brain is highly susceptible, more so than any of my peers for some reason, to all sorts of outside chemicals.)  I attended a liberal arts college that took pride in the workload that it piled on its students.  In fact, the school was rated in the top 10 nationally for workload each year I was there.  The professors were nice enough, I suppose, but they took the rule of thumb- 3 hours of homework for 1 hour of class- and then went beyond it if they could.  There was an amazing amount of posturing and academic muscle flexing at the expense of student mental health.  At least, that’s what I perceived.  Needless to say this was an intense place where academic performance was the top priority and free time was scarce.  To keep up, many students turned to stimulants of the ritalin/adde