Fascists.

I know I can be a great brain surgeon because I feel it man. Forget the fascist establishments ‘rules’ and ‘qualifications’. Just get me a knife and stand back.

I took an Ancient History course at uni where we all had to submit our final essays to the lecturer who then sent it out to three other students in the course for grading. It was a really eerie experience, invasive and rather unpleasant. My fellow students graded my paper from 60% to 88% !!

Sometimes I was really confident about a subject, and I turned out to do not so well. Other times, I thought I’d barely passed and I turned out to have blitzed the exam. … Secondly, I tended to work harder for subjects where I thought I was going to bomb (Property, Corporations Law, Taxation and other “commercial subjects”)…paradoxically, the upshot of this was that I did really well at those subjects, and not so well in the ones where I just cruised on through.

This is me, since high school. Last semester was the first time I managed to force myself to revise stuff I thought I had down pat.

This coming semester I’m going to try a little spaced repetition program I found. But it’s a bit hard to break programming concepts into answer-question format. So, we’ll see.