Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
February 22, 2025, 05:56:04 pm
Home Help Search Calendar Login Register
News: Brian Fein is now blogging weekly!  Make sure to check the homepage for his latest editorial.
+  The Dolphins Make Me Cry.com - Forums
|-+  TDMMC Forums
| |-+  Off-Topic Board
| | |-+  Memorization		 « previous next »
Pages: [1] Print
Author Topic: Memorization  (Read 4838 times)
SCFinFan
Guest
« on: May 02, 2008, 08:09:41 am »
So, I'm sitting here in a classroom, with about T-minus 20 minutes until my next exam. I've memorized about, eh, 92 cases: facts, holding, rationales, and all, and my mind feels about to burst.

My question is, how much is the most you've ever had to memorize? I think this about takes the cake for me.
Logged
Phishfan
Global Moderator
Uber Member
*****
Posts: 15729
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2008, 08:11:24 am »
I forgot the question.
Logged
Househead
YJFF Member
Uber Member
*****
Posts: 2759

djflow
Email
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2008, 08:21:21 am »
The most ever I memorized?  The 2 months that I studied for the bar exam.  It is a test of memorization and not skill/knowledge in the field of law.
Logged
Brian Fein
Global Moderator
Uber Member
*****
Posts: 28297

WHAAAAA???

chunkyb
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2008, 10:34:52 am »
4 months of studying for the PE exam, memorizing specific heats, densities, and pretty much every material property for water, steel, aluminum, etc.  My memory is really good at remembering numbers in sequence.
Logged
Sunstroke
YJFF Member
Uber Member
*****
Posts: 22874

Stop your bloodclot cryin'!


Email
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2008, 10:44:46 am »

I'd like to NOT remember half of the useless minutia that gets stored in my gray filing cabinet...
Logged
"There's no such thing as objectivity. We're all just interpreting signals from the universe and trying to make sense of them. Dim, shaky, weak, staticky little signals that only hint at the complexity of a universe that we cannot begin to comprehend."
~ Micah Leggat
Dave Gray
Administrator
Uber Member
*****
Posts: 30904

It's doo-doo, baby!

26384964 davebgray@comcast.net davebgray floridadavegray
WWW Email
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2008, 11:01:44 am »
My memory is okay.  I tend to remember oddities or lines and inflections from movies, but not remember things that might actually be useful.
Logged
I drink your milkshake!
TonyB0D
Uber Member
*****
Posts: 4624


Crank it up!!


Email
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2008, 02:21:45 pm »
i failed some classes in college because i have no short term memory left....the lyme disease destroyed it.  if I have a notecard that I can put formulas on, i'll get 100 on the test, but when i had to memorize all those complex electrical circuit and physics circuits, they all blended together in my head like dyslexia!  i cant even remember a phone number if someone tells me it...its bad!
Logged
Dave Gray
Administrator
Uber Member
*****
Posts: 30904

It's doo-doo, baby!

26384964 davebgray@comcast.net davebgray floridadavegray
WWW Email
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2008, 03:01:48 pm »
I can't remember people's names in the short term.

So, if I meet you and you tell me your name, I will forget it within 10 seconds.  Literally.  I don't even think that "forget" is the right word, because I don't think that it's ever put to memory to begin with.
Logged
I drink your milkshake!
TonyB0D
Uber Member
*****
Posts: 4624


Crank it up!!


Email
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2008, 03:26:20 pm »
Quote from: Dave Gray on May 02, 2008, 03:01:48 pm
I can't remember people's names in the short term.

So, if I meet you and you tell me your name, I will forget it within 10 seconds.  Literally.  I don't even think that "forget" is the right word, because I don't think that it's ever put to memory to begin with.

i do the same thing.  a good way to compensate is to shake their hand firmly, look them straight in the eye, and repeat their name out loud - "nice to meet you, DAVE".   usually helps me out
Logged
StL FinFan
Uber Member
*****
Posts: 7153


Weaseldoc_13
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2008, 03:27:26 pm »
Yeah, then people keep saying my name over and over and it's really annoying.
Logged

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
JoblessJayFiedler
Senior Member
****
Posts: 344


UCF sucks

ntensepin0y
« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2008, 07:24:27 pm »
Quote from: SCFinFan on May 02, 2008, 08:09:41 am
So, I'm sitting here in a classroom, with about T-minus 20 minutes until my next exam. I've memorized about, eh, 92 cases: facts, holding, rationales, and all, and my mind feels about to burst.

My question is, how much is the most you've ever had to memorize? I think this about takes the cake for me.

First of all, I hope you did well on your finals.

The most I've had to remember was information for my Latin and Experimental Design and Analysis finals which I took yesterday.  For Latin I had to memorize about 130 latin words and how those words transform in different declensions.  My Experimental Design and Analysis final was a bitch.  I had to commit about 30-35 formulas to memory, memorize the process of conducting a variety of ANOVA(analysis of the variance) tests, and interpret data from psychological experiments into words stating what happened in an experiment.
« Last Edit: May 02, 2008, 07:27:08 pm by JoblessJayFiedler » Logged
Denver_Bronco
Uber Member
*****
Posts: 6666


America's team
« Reply #11 on: May 02, 2008, 09:07:30 pm »
Roger Clemens and I misremember EVERYTHING.
Logged
Bronco: An unbroken or imperfectly broken range horse of western No. America
Donkey: Descendant of the African wild ass that has been used as a beast of burden since 4000BC.
Jackass: Someone who doesn't know the difference.
SCFinFan
Guest
« Reply #12 on: May 03, 2008, 09:06:33 am »
Thanks for the well-wishes Fiedler.
Logged
YoFuggedaboutit
Guest
« Reply #13 on: May 03, 2008, 09:21:12 am »
^^^^^

So how did you make out?
Logged
SCFinFan
Guest
« Reply #14 on: May 03, 2008, 09:37:56 am »
No word yet. I had one last friday, one monday, two yesterday, and then one on wednesday.
Logged
Pages: [1] Print 
« previous next »
Jump to:  

The Dolphins Make Me Cry - Copyright© 2008 - Designed and Marketed by Dave Gray


Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines