College classes: how much do you remember from them?

[Anonymous]

And what was your major?

[Anonymous]

the power of melisma in Gregorian chant and Janis Joplin's "Me and Bobby McGee"

how to write a paper using lots of statistics without having it read like just a compilation of boring statistics

the insidious and dehumanizing effect of Stalin's brutality on the Russian people

that the choice of a single word can make a world of difference in a poem

I majored in history and will be forever grateful to my professors and to my parents for giving me the gift of an education.

[Anonymous]

I remember everything from the classes related to my major, which was Psychology.

I am now a Psychiatrist.

I don't remember much from the other classes. Usually something will be triggered when I'm helping a kid with homework or doing a crossword puzzle.

I do remember all the good times, though. So that saying about not remembering the tests, but remembering the party 20 years from now is definitely true, kids.

[Anonymous]

Most of it was a haze.

[Anonymous]

English major - bits and pieces of literature I studied. So glad I took physics….

The two things I actually learned in college:
1. you can BS your way through most anything, because other people don’t want to seem dumb that they didn’t get an obscure lit reference.
2. Living in a sorority house with 30 mean girls is great training for corporate politics….

[Anonymous]

I took a music class called Sacred Music as an elective. I did a term paper and professor wrote don’t by scared I am giving you an A.

Yes the title of my paper said Scared Music

[Anonymous]

I remember everything from the self defense class I took for a gym credit. I remember nothing else. No idea what my major was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember everything from the self defense class I took for a gym credit. I remember nothing else. No idea what my major was.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I took a music class called Sacred Music as an elective. I did a term paper and professor wrote don’t by scared I am giving you an A.

Yes the title of my paper said Scared Music

I love this.

[Anonymous]

Not a lot, but some art history, and just like my horticulture teacher said (took it for an easy A) id wish I’d paid attention now that I have a house, plus most of the things I learned in my accounting courses (my major).

[Anonymous]

Chinese History - I remember nothing.
Music Theory -- how to harmonize.
Neuroscience - the corpus callosum lets both sides of your brain communicate with each other and something about sodium gates in neurons.
Animal Cognition - pigeons bob their heads when they walk to stabilize their vision.
Calculus - absolutely not a goddamn thing.
Environmental Science - the tragedy of the commons.
everything else -- how to read for 30 hours on a subject over one weekend and master it enough to write a paper.

[Anonymous]

Historical Linguistics -- the great vowel shift 1400-1700

[Anonymous]

I remember mostly things immediately relevant to my life or to happenings in the world. Went to business school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember everything from the classes related to my major, which was Psychology.

I am now a Psychiatrist.

I don't remember much from the other classes. Usually something will be triggered when I'm helping a kid with homework or doing a crossword puzzle.

I do remember all the good times, though. So that saying about not remembering the tests, but remembering the party 20 years from now is definitely true, kids.

Psych major here too, now an Industrial Psychologist.
I can't say I remember everything but I have had many moments in my profession where I knew I learned it in college and grad school.

[Anonymous]

I still remember the overtly bigoted teachers and white student applause in Charlottesville when my papers would get different grades for perfect content (engineering problems sets with answer keys on file at the library, no subjective papers) for having an ethnic name on the top. At the exact same time, the white students in Boston were protesting grade inflation. This is only one tame example.

Those of you who hate Trump don't realize the myriad of VISCOUS, VIOLENT, BIGOTRY that happens at UVa was completely discredited and acquitted until that march brought it to light. That's normal there. Yes, the department was weak and so I studied after graduation which has been much more pertinent to my career, but I remember the scarring, abuse, and blatant discrimination reenforced by the deans well. Our valedictorian flopped the GRE and didn't amount to anything, and the top scorers in blind tests (SATs, GRE) etc caught up after three years but were clearly set back.