i never watched that "are you smarter than a 5th grader?" game show, but i imagine that some of it is pretty right on. i imagine that there is much i have learned in school that i have then immediately forgotten. say, the quadratic equation or the difference between sovereignty & legitimacy. i look at high schoolers homework and it reminds me of some of the classes i took in college. i don't think i'd hack it too well in high school now.
of course, now i find it - learning, that is - more interesting. some recent evenings i have totally nerded out and paged through some religion or government textbooks. really,who does that? for fun? i can barely even read the paper.
yet i still remember avogadro's number: 6x10 to the 23rd power. but i could not tell you what that number is for (i was just informed that it the number of molecules in a mole.. which i still don't really know why that matters. screw you avogadro.). not that would come up in average usage. i think the main thing i learned in my chem class was that i am not a morning person, because it was my first class of the day. and i took several classes on south american culture for my general ed requirements and i can't remember anything from those classes besides a)the spanish really screw the native people over and b) tupac shakur the rapper got his name from tupac amaru the leader of the indigenous people in peru. how you like them apples? i'm banking on that last fact to come up at some point during trivia night.
speaking of which, in my continuing experiment of extroversion, i volunteered to help host on some night. so we'll see how that pans out. if any of you out there in internet land want to suggest a question, feel free to do so.
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