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Originally Posted by EULA
The biggest reason I failed in college is because I couldn't pretend that it was valuable. I can't change that. Passing the class isn't enough to compel action. Most people learn what is necessary for the test, take the test, then forget everything two weeks later. They are lucky.
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I will be the first to admit I have forgotten more than most people ever learn, and my memory seems a bit worse than most in my position. On the other hand I have retained much, and am able to 'relearn' the material very quickly if there ever is a need, so its all locked away in there somewhere. Most of it doesn't have a value to me, for example I have no reason to know how to biochemically sequence a protein, I did learn how to do it, I did set the curve on the test out of a few 100 people, and I can't recall it off hand, but so what. At the time I didn't know what I'd be doing, and there was a time in my life I DID need to know that and even thought of becoming a genetic engineer. Had I done that instead I'd have a whole new set of 'useless' knowledge and I'd have viewed the biochemistry class as a critical one in my development. In a modern and high tech society, finding ones path in life is not easy, and college helps a lot of people do that. I suppose it helped you as well, as you learned what you did not want to do
