Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Our chemistry teacher made us memorise up to Argon with a song, that was literally just him singing the 1/2 letter names of all the elements. HHeLiBeBCNOFNe…
It was on a poster on the wall in every lesson. It was in the textbook. It was printed on the exam papers.
I’ve no idea why he tried to make us do that, and the annoying thing is I can still remember a good chunk of it 30 years later. I could have been using that chunk of my brain for something useful.
I had to memorize all the most recent presidents in order. My teacher suggedting using a nemonoc device. I jokingly said “Her tech jiniff kirbicx” in a robot voice - HRTEKJNFCRBC
Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day ago
“1066 Battle of Hastings
1096 First Crusade
1120 Sinking of the White Ship
1153 Treaty of Westminster…”
Etched into my brain for 30 years for absolutely no reason
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 day ago
And the amount of time dedicated to ox-bow lakes. Where are they all? You’d think every second meander would be an ox-bow lake by now, but I’ve never even seen one.
I think geography teachers made them up and hoped nobody would ever check.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 day ago
I have always simply refused to memorize anything.