March 27th, 2009
#729 – Retention
Sometimes it seems so crazy when I think back to all of the things that I worked really hard to learn about and how I now don’t remember any of it. There are many subjects that I learned about just so I could take a test to prove that I memorized a bunch of stuff. Since they didn’t keep testing me on it once a week I lost it all. I’m sure a lot of it is stored somewhere in my brain but those file cabinets are rusted shut.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:09 am
So it is Steven Spielberg and midterm week. This would be AI.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:38 am
What would on classify as an “advanced liquid”?
March 27th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Maby it’s parts of school
March 27th, 2009 at 12:57 am
I’m sure biff will come up with somekind of interesting soultion
March 27th, 2009 at 1:00 am
well im going with micah on this one
March 27th, 2009 at 1:06 am
Ah…this comic gave a real sense of conclusion and satisfaction to Biff’s intense week of schoolwork. It also serves as a reminder that all our efforts our futile and that we should just relax.
March 27th, 2009 at 1:09 am
I’m a Math major, I know exactly how Biff feels.
March 27th, 2009 at 1:34 am
I’m just impressed that he could smuggle lab equipment in his skull for an entire semester before it broke.
March 27th, 2009 at 2:23 am
Nope, i cannot remember all i learn back then too >_<
March 27th, 2009 at 3:43 am
The only thing I remember was how much trouble I was in, but can’t remember what I learned
March 27th, 2009 at 7:03 am
OH, thank you. I’m not the only one. I’m just now trying memorize the formulas for Geometery. I hate Geometery… I’m sitting her thinking….why will I have to know how to find the area of a triangle thats inside a square?
March 27th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Ha! I love it. I’m wondering what device in there needs the electrical cable dangling out the back. Also, I think it’s time we had The Book of Biff #4, what do you say?
March 27th, 2009 at 7:56 am
I’m so taking “Advanced Liquids and Tubes” next year.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:33 am
I recently dug out my old college notes while cleaning. As I read through the advanced formulas, graphs and circuit diagrams, I sadly realized just how smart I used to be. Now they are just pretty pictures that represent a once imaginative mind that has since been corrupted by celebrity news, porn and fast food.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:03 am
LOL @ Paul
Ppl still think I’m brainy cause I still carry a book everywhere. I wonder what they’d REALLY think if they knew it’s nothing other than romance and scifi-adventure?
My regret is that I’ve forgotten how to code by hand. I try it now and go blank…
March 27th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
“How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain.” – Homer Simpson
March 27th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I can remember most things to do with computers, English, some parts of history, any game I’ve played obsessively (haven’t played Spyro in six years…picked up a controller last night at a friend’s place and breezed through the whole game in four hours) or anything I’m writing. Still can’t remember how to do trigonometry, and I have to have a sheet of formulae in front of me to handle area and volume/capacity.
March 27th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Being a music major, I can’t push anything out, even if I wanted to. >_<
March 27th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
I can’t remember the Sine or Cosine laws anymore.
Well, I know the entire a/cos(a) = b/cos(b) bit, but I can’t remember how to get them into usable form. Something like (cos(a)*b)/cosec(a) = b or something odd like that.
March 28th, 2009 at 12:19 am
I remember the sciences and maths really well… maybe that is why i am going to U for physics, anything else just slips out of my mind as if it was a civ with a hole in it.
March 28th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Higher ed is touted as a necessity, yet if we can’t remember what we learned what good is it! Biff’s modifications seem to be, “in, out and all about…”
March 28th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
We don’t actually forget anything. Its just the neural paths to the information weaken, so it’s hard to access. That’s why its so much easier to relearn something.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
i have a knack for remembering stuff i learn
the problem is actually learning stuff
lol
March 28th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
@RPharazon
thas the sine law a/sin(B)=b/sin(B)
and the useable form is a=bsin(B)/sin(B) or A=arcsin(sin(B)a/b)
cosine law is a^2 = b^2 + c^2 – 2bccos(A)
^2 being squared and arcsin is aslo know as sin^-1
March 29th, 2009 at 5:00 am
To be honest, I never even tried to retain the information from any of my courses. At least not long-term. I just wanted the grades so I crammed, took the test and forgot. The things I’ve actually wanted to remember came from leisurely reading and playing music. Or shopping.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
It’s especially hard to remember to use periods.