"This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

I just got back from a bio review session. Something I'll never understand:

Why do students ask questions specific to an exam?

"Do we need to know XYZ?"

I will never understand why people learn for the exam. Why are they here? Learn because you want to know, because you are curious, and because you think it will better you to know. Keep learning. It's the greatest ability we have.

If you want to know it, you will. It will reflect on any exam, which is simply a formality. Why? Because the tests will be reasonable. Because professors are people too, people who hopefully believe beyond the test and who have reason and judgment not to ask impertinent questions. And if they do? You still have what you've learned.

Just another reason that I dislike grades when they're taken as ends in themselves.

And the next time you spend a month teaching concepts, three days a week, let me know how it feels to be asked, essentially, to reteach everything as if they were novel concepts in one condensed, two-hour review session. Don't be that guy.

These adorable, plushy common cold microbes cry when you ask stupid questions.

Silly me, here I was thinking that I should be learning these things for indefinite future use in the field of my major.