Public Service Announcement: Your Brain On Steno

Posted on 9/6/2007

Who can forget back in 1987 the PSA campaign This Is Your Brain On Drugs series? The original PSA depicted a guy holding an egg, This is your brain. He then grabs a frying pan and says, This is drugs. He cracks the egg into the frying pan and it starts to sizzle, This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?
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Any student of court reporting or court reporter professional will tell you about the effects of stenography on your brain. When I was in school going through theory -- the boot camp of learning to type on the steno machine -- I ate, drank and slept that stuff. I had dreams about typing my way through mountains of letters, papers and documents. Ok, that`s a little weird, I know.

Comment by Sandra Jackson
10/18/2007

Funny! 20 yr reporter and I still have dreams where I’m in the courtroom w/out my machine and I’m having to take everything down in longhand and can’t (as you can well imagine) keep up but I keep trying and trying. Usually wake up in a cold sweat after one of those!

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