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08-17-2024, 04:35 AM
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Is it normal to forget stuff you learned in college?

I studied a whole unit on advanced human immunology and realised that I forgot so much when I started doing a bit of reading on white blood cells (leukocytes).

Is this normal?
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08-17-2024, 04:39 AM
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No brah your brain is broken
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08-17-2024, 04:43 AM
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No brah your brain is broken
I got a distinction in immunology which was a capstone unit. Why, what did you study at uni?

Funny that you mention my brain is broken, because I feel that I am smarter now than ever. I even done a legit IQ test the other day and scored 115, which is all the way at the high end of average..

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08-17-2024, 04:52 AM
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No brah your brain is broken
For example, this is just a list of all the cells I had to have a comprehensive understanding of and I'm pretty sure it's incomplete (there's way more subcategories) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_immune_cells .

White blood cells - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_blood_cell

Immune system - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system
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08-17-2024, 05:00 AM
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I got a distinction in immunology which was a capstone unit. Why, what did you study at uni?

Funny that you mention my brain is broken, because I feel that I am smarter now than ever. I even done a legit IQ test the other day and scored 115, which is all the way at the high end of average..

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Lol. No it's completely normal. If you don't use it, you lose it.

Stop being so defensive all the time brah it's not that srs.
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08-17-2024, 05:07 AM
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unless it's due to a brain injury you didn't forget it. your brain decided it is unimportant and stored it in the ass end

when your brain is literally poked you remember chit you long forgot about

however we are programmed, what we immediately remember, was most important to us in this moment

anecdotally, i used to write chinese perfectly fine. if i was asked to write most basic sentences in characters now i could not. it's all there though. after forgetting a few characters, i went to sleep and i dreamed about writing it. the next morning i wrote it. and i'm srs. because of the shock i guess i still remember it.

i believe the brain falls away from what is paramount to what we consider necessary for survival. it is hard to understand this in modern times, but makes sense for adaptation
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08-17-2024, 05:08 AM
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Originally Posted By CellyTech⏩
Lol. No it's completely normal. If you don't use it, you lose it.

Stop being so defensive all the time brah it's not that srs.
I'm just reading through various journal articles and wikis and I am mind blown at just how detailed this stuff is - surprised I even learned this stuff.

Bit of trivia, I was a full blown atheist and very scientifically minded person (rooted in the physical reality) until I had a spiritual awakening and began to be able to perceive energy and read minds at times - then I realised I was just demon possessed, hence how I gained soothsaying abilities.

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unless it's due to a brain injury you didn't forget it. your brain decided it is unimportant and stored it in the ass end

when your brain is literally poked you remember chit you long forgot about

however we are programmed, what we immediately remember, was most important to us in this moment

anecdotally, i used to write chinese perfectly fine. if i was asked to write most basic sentences in characters now i could not. it's all there though. after forgetting a few characters, i went to sleep and i dreamed about writing it. the next morning i wrote it. and i'm srs. because of the shock i guess i still remember it.

i believe the brain falls away from what is paramount to what we consider necessary for survival. it is hard to understand this in modern times, but makes sense for adaptation
Yeah true..

Have you ever studied immunology?
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08-17-2024, 05:17 AM
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Have you ever studied immunology?
when i helped my ex in nursing school.

now all i remember are t-cels, that they are sort of random, and the immune system needs to activate them before they talke care of you
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08-17-2024, 05:24 AM
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when i helped my ex in nursing school.

now all i remember are t-cels, that they are sort of random, and the immune system needs to activate them before they talke care of you
TBH you don't even need to know any of this to be a nurse or even a doctor. You only need this information if you're an actual scientist/researcher. The fact that you did learn it just to teach t is a testament to your intellectual prowess, however!

Here's a pic of a process termed, 'antigen presentation', which is how cells are programmed to recognise the body's cells from pathgens, etc.



I used to know all the details of how this worked, down to the structure of MHC and the protein's domain, subdomains, etc.
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08-17-2024, 05:36 AM
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Yeah I don't remember the majority of it now. But I blame the weeeeed on that
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08-17-2024, 05:44 AM
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Originally Posted By WiseOldApe⏩
I studied a whole unit on advanced human immunology and realised that I forgot so much when I started doing a bit of reading on white blood cells (leukocytes).

Is this normal?
Yes. Normal.
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08-17-2024, 05:44 AM
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of course it is normal to not remember everything you no longer use or practise
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08-17-2024, 05:52 AM
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TBH you don't even need to know any of this to be a nurse or even a doctor. You only need this information if you're an actual scientist/researcher. The fact that you did learn it just to teach t is a testament to your intellectual prowess, however!

Here's a pic of a process termed, 'antigen presentation', which is how cells are programmed to recognise the body's cells from pathgens, etc.



I used to know all the details of how this worked, down to the structure of MHC and the protein's domain, subdomains, etc.

i dont think reading information and remembering it has much to do with intellect. but that she could read something and extract something a bit differently than i, showed me a difference in understanding. didn't mean i was right and she was wrong, but when it came to practice questions…. well, i attributed it to english as her second language. she was very smart mathematically

way, way later, she asked me for help understanding EKG waves after our break up. i learned it all in an hour or two and helped her get through her training. she seemed clueless

it lead me to thinking someone can be both capable of being intelligent and also kind of illiterate. examining truth vs inperpreting meaning
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08-17-2024, 06:02 AM
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Yes that is apparently normal to forget much of what was taught in college. A few years ago a study came out on that, which received a good amount of attention in the press.
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Yes that is apparently normal to forget much of what was taught in college. A few years ago a study came out on that, which received a good amount of attention in the press.
So what exactly are we paying for?
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08-17-2024, 06:07 AM
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College/university is a such a scam and waste of time

Not sure it was worth it, then again the nightlife was good/going parties
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08-17-2024, 06:12 AM
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So what exactly are we paying for?
opportunity.

students who love what they are learning will probably remember a lot more

i think a lot of students go to college because that is what they think they should do,

yet much later realize they were learning from a renowned expert, who have lengthy wikipedia articles about them.

imagine meeting someone who has an immense wealth of knowledge. you never visit their office and pick their brains, then later say their class sucked
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College/university is a such a scam and waste of time

Not sure it was worth it, then again the nightlife was good/going parties
What did you study?

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opportunity.

students who love what they are learning will probably remember a lot more

i think a lot of students go to college because that is what they think they should do,

yet much later realize they were learning from a renowned expert, who have lengthy wikipedia articles about them.

imagine meeting someone who has an immense wealth of knowledge. you never visit their office and pick their brains, then later say their class sucked
I can only speak from my point of view, but uni isn't for every 18 year old. We should normalise going to uni at 30+. Like the avarage 18 year old dipsh!t knows what they wanna do for the rest of their life at that age.

It does look good on paper and shows you're smart.. but yeah agree, I only went coz I thought I had to.

Also agreed. Pretty much any lecturer you have is a walking encyclopedia.
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