tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683735.post7866331283372647506..comments2023-08-09T04:31:11.012-05:00Comments on Can-Smashing Robot: Back to school: report #1Josh Krauterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08951130010325374744noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683735.post-72899641275390221252007-09-24T23:29:00.000-05:002007-09-24T23:29:00.000-05:00i could not pass a bio 101 class if my life depend...i could not pass a bio 101 class if my life depended on it. i think the cut-off for being able to cram a useless cacophony of shit into your cranium in any retrievable form is about 23. the last class i took at UNL was history 101 and even though i had managed a 3.95 up until that point, i had to take this exercise in knucklewalking pass/no pass to keep from getting a D. law school is the same thing. the first time around (age 25, so maybe my initial age calculations were off) studying for the exams was almost embarrassingly easy (i was able to stuff months worth of info in my head in a night and hold it in for the requisite 24 hours). the second time around (age 30) even studying for one class was a nightmare, mainly because i've lived enough life to know that there is no real reason to want to retain, even momentarily, a pile of disconnected minutiae. (which means that you start connecting it, just to rationalize the time your investing, which leads you quite far astray from what They are testing you on.) <BR/><BR/>i guess what i'm saying is: don't get too frustrated. for anyone who has acquired a modicum of wisdom, or even genuine intellectual curiosity, the back to school gig would be an intellectual contortion bound to produce ginormous amounts of brain-heart-nut ache. which is the sort of depressing, but maybe not too depressing, part of general undergraduate education in general: it's purpose is just to try to catalyze in students--in mass-quantities, in a quasi-Fordist/fast-foodist way--some desire to want to know something about anything. but once you have that, going back through the process is likely to give your mind, or at least your spirit, a knee-weakening case of the bends. and then if your not careful, you'll split yourself open and shit yourself sideways. and that, my brother from another mother, will truly hurt. and smell. bad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com