Decay of Learning Answers

Before I say anything else, let me give a mini-lecture about how you'll never get anywhere in life if you wait for answers to problems to be given to you. Instead, you should embrace the difficulty and figure out what you can!

Haha.

For reals, I am finally posting the answers to the Decay of Learning Test. Hope you did well!

1. William Howard Taft
2. Jakarta
3. Echidnodermata
4.William, Duke of Normandy (defeating King Harold II of England)
5. Islam, mostly Sunni Muslims
6. Abolition of Poll Tax
7. A triangle with two equal sides and two angles of the same measure
8. Ukranian or Russian
9. Cirrus
10. Charles Dickens
11. 1215 (Could you even get within 100 years?)
12. Au
13. United Kingdom
14. Paul Gauguin
15. Mammalia
16. Mekong River
17. 13
18. 8
19. Baroque
20. British (fought against the French and the Indians together)

Hope ya remember some of these answers now that I tell you what they are! I felt kinda stupid after missing ones that at one time were so easy to me. Thank goodness for the internet so I could look up these answers for you! :)

Decay of Learning Test

On the last day of my Substance Abuse and Addiction (Health 460) class, Dr. Lindsay asked us what we would remember from this class 10 years from now. (Side-note: I will remember loving the class! I'll remember other specific details or visuals that Dr. Lindsay shared with us, too, but I just wanted to make sure that it was known that this was one of my favorite classes of my BYU experience thusfar.) As a fun activity, during the discussion he passed out a little test for us to take. It is called the "Decay of Learning Test." Now as I share it with you, I encourage you to dig up those past tiny details that you once learned and knew sometime throughout your life. Don't cheat by reading other people's comments before you answer, but go ahead and comment with your answers to the test! And don't be cheatin' none by looking up the answers, either. Just try to pull the information directly out of your noggin and see how well you can do. Honestly, I did quite poorly, so don't feel bad if you perform likewise. Plus, I guess you could skip a question or two if you need to. In about a week I will post the correct answers, so make sure you take this quiz before the deadline!

1. Who was president after Teddy Roosevelt?
2. What is the capital of Indonesia?
3. What Phylum does a starfish belong to?
4. Who won the Battle of Hastings?
5. What is the predominant religion in Turkey?
6. What is the 24th Amendment to the Constitution?
7. What is an isosceles triangle?
8. What language is spoken in Kiev?
9. What type of cloud is high and fleecy?
10. Who wrote David Copperfield?
11. When was the Magna Carta signed?
12. What is the periodic table symbol for Gold?
13. Who controls Gibraltar?
14. Which French impressionistic painter did much of his work in Tahiti?
15. What class do whales belong to?
16. What is the largest river in Southeast Asia?
17. What is the next prime number after 11?
18. What is the atomic number of oxygen?
19. What musical period did Bach belong to?
20. Who won the French and Indian wars -- the French or the Indians?

Good luck!

General Thoughts

• Due to an odd set of circumstances, I don't have any classes until next Monday. In other words, I've finished some classes and had other professors cancel a few class meetings. Add this to the fact that I never have class on Tuesdays or Thursdays (for this second half of the semester), and what do you get? Only two more days that I have to attend class this semester (next Monday and Wednesday)! And, even though I do have some classes on Monday, I also have one that was canceled that day. Crazycrazycrazy.
• I've done a bit of listening to Christmas music when I stop by the library lately. This came about not only because Christmas season naturally increases the amount of time I listen to music, but because I finally remembered to put my headphones in my backpack. I used to always keep them in there, but sometime near the beginning of the semester I took them out and kept forgetting to put them back in. Anyhoo, because I've been signing into Pandora in a public place more often, I've seen other people's station lists. (Many websites automatically sign you out when you leave the site or sign off the computer. Pandora is not one of those websites so if someone forgot to sign out before me, I can still see his/her radio stations.) I'm happy to report that from my small case study, many others are also relishing this wonderful time for Christmas music. However, I've also found some very weird stations. People are interesting.
• The end of one month and the beginning of the next always seem to be a tidge more stressful. Who decided to make life like that?
• It is getting awfully cold around here. And yes, it's awful. However, I'm not miserable most of the time and our heater works wonders, so I'll try to be more positive about this particular tidbit.
• I really want to take a certain section of NDFS 100 next semester. Prayers in my behalf (or that someone will decide to drop that class at that time) would be greatly appreciated. That also brings me to a thought: Would it be better for me to completely drop the class and hope I can add the new time that works in my schedule, or should I continue to hold on to my spot in the class even though it conflicts with the another one of my classes? Wouldn't it just be silly if someone was experiencing my same distress but in reverse? Perhaps me dropping it would really help someone else out. Hmmm...
• Okay, back to Pandora. (I realize you're probably sick of it...) But seriously, the last 3 or 4 songs that have played on my Taylor Swift Holiday station have been literally some of my very favorite Christmas songs and arrangements of said songs. What joy!
• I can't quite decide how to use all my free time tonight. Usually I'm in class right now, but my teacher never showed up (and subsequently sent an email explaining his absence). Usually I have a class after this class, but since our concert was last night I no longer have to attend rehearsal. Thus, oodles of free time tonight. I think I'll go home and be even more productive than I am being right now. (Yes, I know you all just love to hear from me, but blog posts don't rank extremely high on my "productivity" list.)
• Okay, now can you see why I couldn't come up with a title for this post? Really I just wanted to talk to someone and my blog was the first thing available...? Sure. Have a splendid evening!