Welcome to the 7th circle

If at this point in my life I could imagine what Dante's Seventh Circle felt like, this would be it. And yes, I'm being a drama queen because I know that the MCAT and the LSAT and the DAT and a whole bunch of other tests are a ton worse but at this point I've had enough red bulls and sleep deprivation to where I don't really care. Dear Professor Hibbard: I shook my fist at you in anger behind your back today. Why? Because I don't understand why a learning institution (and most humans interpret that as an institution designed to help students LEARN) would decide to simulate the real world in a fashion that is completely unrealistic and not at all conducive to learning. In what world would you be forced to ingest a whole half semester's worth of information in ONE WEEK for FOUR CLASSES right after a huge presentation and then regurgitate said information in two 5 hour periods spaced one day apart? Who does this help? The student? No, we forget the information a mere 2 or 3 days after we take the test. The professors? No. You have some skewed belief that those of us who do well on the midterms understand the material but really we are just good at memorizing and vomiting out information at you. Society? (as I have memorized, they tend to be the last stakeholder in all sorts of important decisions such as supply marketing strategy, implementation, and also Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives--for all you other SMG nerds out there) no. Society will shortly receive an influx into the working class of people who can memorize tons of information but actually DO nothing.

Anyways, I took a break from memorizing stuff for these exams to rant I guess about how pointless they really are. But then again. We are all just slaves to the system. We will continue to cram the information into our brains knowing that the only opportunity for actual learning is in the real world and the only means to that opportunity is to do well as a student. So the professors will pull the strings as best they know how and the puppets will dance. Just my thoughts.

Radhi