Death of the Memory Ninja
After approximately 18 years of being a student in some form or other I like to think that i've learned a few things about memorising. I quite enjoy that element of being a student. In VCE, when we did pseudo in class exams/essays, I enjoyed writing them at home over the weekend, and then memorising them before regurgitating them in class. I quite liked memorising scripts back during the good old drama major days too.
I don't seem to have any freakishly amazing memory abilities. But being a somewhat systems oriented person, I quite enjoy coming up with innovative strategies for learning stuff. That's been half the fun of going back to uni to do psych.
Yet it occurred to me today, that after all these years of trying to become a memory ninja, it's not the kind of skill that's going to be ready for much longer. As i've written before, life in 21st century is an open book test. But more importantly, if my goals work out, i'll be doing research oriented things soon, which i'm assuming don't really require a lot of memorisation.
At my french class the other night, it came up that we're at the stage where we can do VCE french if we want. Ell and I were talking about it on the way home. Something the idea tickles my fancy. Language learning is all about being a memory ninja. It'd be an interesting juxtaposition doing VCE french and psych honours at the same time.
But would I have the time? And is there really that much point? Je ne sais pas.
Just thinking out loud.
PS. the idea of memory ninjas is related to a post i read on 43folders.com about email ninjas
PPS. I think this may be one of the nerdiest posts I ever done. Nerdy as opposed to geeky.
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Nerdy and Geeky?
Can you give me a couple of definitions that separate the two?
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