I really like, and can relate with today's Far Side.
There is a picture of a classroom and the teacher is looking back at a student who has his hand raised. The quotation reads, "Mr. Osborne, may I be excused? My brain is full."
Sometimes I believe I was somehow given an abnormally small brain, which is terribly difficult to retain information in.
I noticed in my first semester at college that I was having a hard time retaining any information that I would read. I did manage to find a way, somehow, to memorize the info. I needed for the next test, but as soon as the test was over - out went the knowledge and recollection of everything I had spent hours reviewing.
In high school I had an excellent memory and had no problem remembering anything and everything I took the time to memorize.
It makes me wonder how anyone makes it through 4+years of college and retain enough to actually become something, such as a doctor, and remember exatly what tiny muscle is to the left of your membrane on the outside of your cerebellum.
It blows my mind. And not that I'm trying to compare my studying anywhere near that of a brain surgeons, but I'm flabbergasted at how the human brain works and can remember so much, after so many years.
I'm just hoping I make it through college and remember the difference between straight news stories and feature stories!
There is a picture of a classroom and the teacher is looking back at a student who has his hand raised. The quotation reads, "Mr. Osborne, may I be excused? My brain is full."
Sometimes I believe I was somehow given an abnormally small brain, which is terribly difficult to retain information in.
I noticed in my first semester at college that I was having a hard time retaining any information that I would read. I did manage to find a way, somehow, to memorize the info. I needed for the next test, but as soon as the test was over - out went the knowledge and recollection of everything I had spent hours reviewing.
In high school I had an excellent memory and had no problem remembering anything and everything I took the time to memorize.
It makes me wonder how anyone makes it through 4+years of college and retain enough to actually become something, such as a doctor, and remember exatly what tiny muscle is to the left of your membrane on the outside of your cerebellum.
It blows my mind. And not that I'm trying to compare my studying anywhere near that of a brain surgeons, but I'm flabbergasted at how the human brain works and can remember so much, after so many years.
I'm just hoping I make it through college and remember the difference between straight news stories and feature stories!
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