Cram & Purge

I was cleaning out piles of old UIUC stuff and ended up looking through some old notes/lecture notes. A couple of classes in particular caught my attention: Calc II, Physics, and Learning and Memory (Psych).

Glancing through that stuff, I recognized most of it. But hell if I could remember anything meaningful from it or do anything productive with it. The worst case of it was Calc II. Having took it around 3+ years ago, you'd think I'd remember something about it. Wrong. Negative. No sir. Seeing stuff like parametric curves, power & alternating series, and root/alternating/comparison tests kinda pissed me off. Didn't really see the point of any of it. But then again, I wasn't in a math heavy field. At least with physics and psych I could kinda figure out/remember what I learned back in the day. Not so much w/Calc II.

But even looking at my MCB & Organic lab books, I remember the stupid amounts of time spent not only in lab, but with all the pre/post/during/do whatever we say lab writeups. That and the wonderful teaching utility of lab exams. Those were educationally awesome. Bleh, similar stories around for other college kids...but seeing it again reminded me of all that business. I learned a decent amount from UIUC, especially outta some of my upper level MCBs. But I'm also surprised how much of it was cram & purge.