Yesterday was the second time my two summer classes met. And I am already behind and I have a headache! These classes are 8 week long, meet two days a week for 3 hours at a time. So at the end of Mondays and Wednesdays for the next 8 weeks my brain will be crammed full of knowledge that I will be required to regurgitate on the listed test days.
The surprising thing is...my brain actually retains this information! Well let me qualify that, it retains some of the information. The proof I have of this...I did virtually the same thing last semester...longer session but three times the classes...and of those classes one was a "pre-quel" to one for this summer. Where is the proof of information retention? Oh that would be in the fact that I could understand the book we are reading (which requires understanding the information from the last class). SO see information retained!
So where does that put me and all those other students out there that feel their brains starting to reach max capacity? The odd feeling of an inevitable explosion? Well, nowhere near a solution to the explosion problem....but at least we can revel in the idea that maybe....just maybe we will acquire some useful information that will stay with us................as long as our heads don't explode.
If the explosion does occur, we can take comfort in the fact that the information we lost will no longer be needed. :-)
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Brain-mushey brain-mushey.... but it's okay, cause you're getting all smarterized. And soon you'll make tons of money and be able to put me through grad school.
Love you and the blog, btw.
-The student
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