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Believe it or not, this 'oil painting' is a photograph.  February 2018

Dusty in here, isn't it?

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*blows off the dust*

So, S330 Oceanography.  It's a vast course.  It's a great course if you want to know everything about oceans, but it's kind of vast.

Possibly this is not the course to do when you're suffering from stress and medication side effects.  However, we work with what we got...

I have thoroughly enjoyed all the geology and physics, even though the geometry of the Coriolis effect and its repercussions does my head in on a regular basis.  My marks have been decent, although unless I play a blinder in TMA04 I don't have to worry about a distinction for the exam.

Ah yes.  The exam.

After careful analysis of six years' worth of past papers, I have determined that the following topics are likely to come up:

  • Everything.

Even the choice of questions doesn't restrict the revision options much, since a question on ocean basins might suddenly ask about gas hydrates; or a question on currents might sneakily enquire about the food web in gyres.  So... I guess I've got a month to memorise roughly 1200 pages of science.

...I wonder whether it wouldn't be simpler just to dry out all the oceans...?

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Believe it or not, this 'oil painting' is a photograph.  February 2018

Great god this is an awful place

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Edited by Ceiswyn Blake, Monday, 30 Apr 2012, 12:48
Why yes, yes I have started reading the book for the Frozen Planet course. Though given that polar exploration is one of my favourite obsessions (and Shackleton and Nansen are two of my personal heroes) I expect I'll be shouting at the text before long smile

In the meantime, it appears I have already forgotten everything I learned in S151. This is the story of my life. Learning things, no problem; becoming an insta-expert on complex technical subjects is kind of my job. Retaining them in my mind? Not so much.

Does anyone have any techniques for learning things so that they actually stick in the long-term? (Note: repetition does not work.)

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