Being in the field I am, and the part of the world I’m in, and the relevance of recent events, I really ought to be able to tell you all about the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, but offhand I just have the vague recollection that Thailand torpedoed its own currency somehow, “hot money” bailed out of the region, and northeast Asia wasn’t affected so badly because its markets weren’t as open as its neighbors to the south. Trust me, I ought to know a lot more than that.
(ETA: And now, I have no excuse not to know it – jumping over to Wikipedia toot suite!)
How about you? I’ll be especially interested to see any doctors, lawyers or indian chiefs in this thread – I promise I won’t tell!
I’m about to become an English teacher, and this means I really should have read quite a few classic novels that I just haven’t yet. Also some movies that I should see.
On the other hand, if you want to make the other education students really jealous, there’s nothing like whining that you need to read books and watch movies to get them going
flodnak, solution to your problem is to assign your unread books to your students. Then you don’t have to read them, just read the reports later (which you’d do anyway).
I don’t know how to unhook a bra with one hand. I don’t know how to drive stick. I don’t know how to tie a tie. I don’t know how to replace a tire, and I am only 50% sure I know how to check the oil.
A cunning plan, the only drawback of which is that it does assume that the students will themselves actually read the set books before writing their reports. This is by no means certain.
I don’t know how to do this, either. Nor do I know how to unhook a bra without turning the band around so the hooks are in the front. Turning the band around is how my mom taught me to do it when I started wearing a bra, and I never learned anything else.
Significant figures still boggle me. If mg = (1500 kg)(9.8 m/s^2), θ = π/6, and μ = 0.453, I have no idea how many figures my solution should have. It’s even worse when I have to find uncertainty.
Edit: I would’ve gotten an A in my Chemistry course if not for those blasted sig figs.
Lawyer here: I just don’t get Marbury v. Madison. This case is absolutely fundamental. It is the very first case in almost every single Constitutional Law textbook. Something about writs of mandamus… or appointments to the Supreme court. :smack:
I’m an editor and I can never be bothered to recite the “ei” vs. “ie” rule, so I just let spellcheck catch it or worse… leave the typo in. I know, I should have my pedantic Ms. Smartypants card revoked.
On that same note, I can also not be bothered to learn when to use “whom” and when to use “who.”
I have a shit memory for world history. As a concerned citizen, I should know more about the factors that influenced, say, World Wars I and II, as well as what the hell is going on in the Middle East right now. It’s not that I haven’t tried. It just goes in one ear and out the other.
I’m an engineer, and I don’t know what half the acronyms I use every day really stand for. For example, I know what a DAR is, it’s a evaluation process used for trade studies, but I couldn’t tell you what the letters stand for without looking it up.
Same for me. I’ve read biographies, news, watched a lot of documentaries, and the facts fall away like deciduous leaves in October. Very frustrating. On the other hand, I’m constantly surprised while watching The Tudors “Didn’t see that coming” lol.
“Didn’t see that coming” lol.