The act of doing too many intellectual/ thinking required activities in a short period of time. This causes an immense amount of strain on the mind, instead of dealing with the problems at hand the mind committs suicide by shuting off and leaving the victim incapable of completing a thought.
Juan: "Omg I heard your taking 3 SAT subject tests tomorrow."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)