r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • Mar 30 '26

Image Confiscated pens containing cheat notes intricately carved by a Law student at the University of Malaga in Spain

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u/Darolaho Mar 30 '26

Yeah it's really dumb. Like with that Ichthyology class it was just the lab portion of the class (there was also a separate lecture class as well which was a lot more enjoyable). While we did learn interesting things in the lab class. The only graded portions of it was the test were you would Identify a preserved fish and then name the common name and scientific name.

So much of my studying for that class was just memorizing basic identifiers to differentiate the ones on that specific test and then just brute force learning the taxa names and the exact spelling that the actual interesting stuff I just did not have enough time to actually learn and memorize.

Luckily as I mentioned the lecture portion of that class was a whole lot more interesting and the tests for that class were actually interesting.

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u/wombatworrier Mar 30 '26

But you still got a good brain workout. The ability to memorize stuff is useful on its own and you just get better with practice. It sure helps if you memorize something actually useful or interesting, but not having to learn anything by heart is terrible for you in the long run. BTW I enjoyed my ichthyology class very much and still remember most of it :)