tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30497139.post4901833017847852524..comments2023-05-27T06:23:24.990-04:00Comments on Procrastination at its best: A plea for helpemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11930035974431027909noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30497139.post-72853183257841383412008-09-30T10:56:00.000-04:002008-09-30T10:56:00.000-04:00Man, this was just too close for comfort....thank ...Man, this was just too close for comfort....thank you for commiserating with me, by the way! I appreciate the thoughts and knowing that I am not alone in my testing drama! <BR/><BR/>I don't really think there is a way out of rote memorization. If there is, I haven't found it. Honestly, being in the place I'm in now...I think your teacher is a twit for putting you in that position. It seems to me like YOU are doing it the RIGHT way and your teacher is just enough of a douchebag to throw out things that are meaningless and indicate no further understanding than an ability to memorize information (which is NOT what makes a person educated). All I can say is that take comfort in the fact that you are smarter than that professor and probably most of the students in that class. The important thing (especially when it comes to freakin' BIOLOGY) is UNDERSTANDING processes and how things happen...NOT the phylum (sp?) that a spider is in!!! That is SOOO not important in the real world context and people who think it is can kiss both sides of my ass!AnnDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15629045924136272980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30497139.post-64787951584014595452008-09-26T18:02:00.000-04:002008-09-26T18:02:00.000-04:00Oh NO not the tic!! Um...Memorization is difficul...Oh NO not the tic!! Um...Memorization is difficult but I do know that we used to make up rhymes for biology. Also we did a lot of work with different techniques. I can still do Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species because King Philip Came over from Germany Saturday. Strange eh? That was also 7th Grade. I can't tell you at all what the planet one is or which planets are where. Go figure. :) Then again that was 3rd Grade. :) Good luck and seriously try and relate it to your day to day activities. You'll get there!Farmerspicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13663193380428286379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30497139.post-14048874538992176852008-09-26T17:12:00.000-04:002008-09-26T17:12:00.000-04:00Back in high school I had to memorize MANY speeche...Back in high school I had to memorize MANY speeches from Shakespeare's plays. I set them all to music (star spangled banner, christmas carols, etc.) which took awhile to prepare but I breezed through those quizzes and even today I can still remember pieces of them. Maybe something like that would help?Tinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16234153598917032922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30497139.post-18339130040087575902008-09-26T15:52:00.000-04:002008-09-26T15:52:00.000-04:00Anatomy coloring books, assembling models, online ...Anatomy coloring books, assembling models, online quizzes, flash cards, study group, tutoring and maybe, just maybe, the problem is the teacher and you need a different teacher.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com