Most people think of summer as relaxing time...vacation, laid back easy going...All I have to say is "YEAH RIGHT!"
I want to post to let whoever may be reading this know that I am still breathing, albeit heavily. I have gone back to my old job just for the summer and of course I mentioned the classes I take...the group I started...the house I run...oh yeah and I have decided to start mountian biking with DH. That is fun...actually too fun, becasue that is all we want to do now. I guess what they say about exercise and once you get started is true. In fact, I am on my way out the office door now to go hit the trails by my home. YIPPPPPEEEEEE!
So I am still alive, I will post again, I just have to find a topic and time!
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
The benefits of cramming your brain full of stuff...I mean, information
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. :-)
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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