I hate when this happens. I know how the Fed adjusts the money supply. Yet, I just realized that I have completely forgotten, or completely failed to understand in the first place how it controls the money supply over the long term.
I recall another time, playing a dice game with a friend. I knew the optimal strategy, and he kicked my ass! When I went and re-checked it, I discovered that I had completely fucked it up!
I hate it when that happens.
This happens all the time. The older I get, the stupider I become.
Once, in college, I trundled off to class just before mid-terms and thought I kinda had a handle on the material. Well, that day, we did some review for the upcoming exams and I suddenly realized I didn’t have the faintest idea what was going on. I had a negitive learning experiance. I was so floored and depressed I went home in a daze and just kinda resigned to the fact that I was going to fail that test.
I never was a good student. Thats why I’m in Management.
I had absolute knowledge of how to capture and zip and copy my Favorites to a new machine.
Until I was forced to and turned in the old machine with the wrong files on my transfer disk!
Now I have to search the web from scratch because I missed a step.
Ah yes…welcome to Epistemology 101. Another nihilist is born!
You are Donald Rumsfeld and I claim my $5!
NOt a Rummy-phrase, but I still love it:
“I’m not saying that I didn’t say it, what I’m saying is that I’m not saying that I said it.” Or something to that effect.
Well, if it’s any comfort, I sometimes trundle off to teach classes and realize five minutes before the class starts that I don’t know what I’m going to say and don’t have the faintest idea what’s going on. Luckily, surprisingly few of the students ever seem to notice…
That happened to me once while I was teaching a GRE test prep class at Kaplan. It was very, very embarassing A word I thought I knew, it turned out I didn’t know at all. NOW I know it very well indeed.
Those students had no sense of humor. At all.
Do any students have a sense of humor?
Pleasant, enjoyable students have a sense of humor. That way when you screw up you can say “Gee- I screwed up there. Let me do that again, the right way this time” and everything is cool.
I have found that one secret to finding pleasant, enjoyable students is never to teach at Kaplan. Another is to only teach upper-level undergrads or grad students. Also to only teach things you like teaching - it makes a big, big difference.
[Inigo Montoya]
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Some simple algebra stuff. Yesterday I couldn’t use the Quadratic Formula. I mean, that’s easy, basic stuff. Nontheless . . . Aw well, at least I could still complete the square . . . um, well, no. Thank goodness I could at least factor. Anyway, today I can use the Quadratic Formula again. Still, it was weird. I was confident I knew what I needed to know to solve those algebra problems right up to the point where I had written a few lines of the problem down on paper. :smack: How embarassing.
In-con-seeevable!