What's the most unusual thing in your refrigerator, right now?
McDonald's cookie
Best way to learn an essay by tomorrow?
Well from what I've been hearing, just reading isn't good enough. To remember something, you need to be ACTIVELY revising it, this could include making posters, mind maps or maybe even your own podcasts. Any way you decide to do it, just make it ACTIVE and make it appeal to your own personal learning style. Learning styles include: Aural, visual, kinaesthetic and reading/writing. Just be careful though because you may be one of these "Multi-modal" learners that we hear about and you wouldn't want to be one of those because that's just dangerous.