i do not understand. i love class. i love lectures and even the readings and work books are interesting to me. i love learning and i think that my anatomy and biomolecular chemistry classes are actually pretty fun and meaningful for the most part... it's the studying and agonizing and memorizing i don't care for.
seriously, how many students are screwed over because they are terrible test takers, or better yet and probably more common, horrible studiers. studying is not easy, and it's not really fun unless you believe that memorizing carbon groups and the specific parts of every bone in the body are entertaining. i do not. i like learning it the first time, even filling out maps or coloring it in, and using it in every day life would be great-- in fact, i have no doubt i'd learn it much faster in an environment that condones that-- being a student does not. my friends do not understand when i tell them that i need to work on my lateral obliques because my medial ones are alright, and i believe the the superior ones are better, but the inferior ones still need a lot of work... really not something used in every day language.
now those med schools, they know how to bring in their doctors. teaching anatomy alongside working with patients and doing clinicals-- or at least having a lab along with the class would be so much better, easier to understand, something practical. i would retain the information much better than learning it simply out of a text book. i just hate tests and testing and how it makes people. i see my best friend break down because she has so much information to jam into her head for her test... and really, it's information that will do her no good in life, at least not anything i can see for the future she's hoping for.
i know life isn't easy, and i know it's survival of the fittest and in this case, survival of the students with the photographic memory, but is that really how life should be? humans are the superior race, what are we competing for?
