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[Truean]

Ok, so my professor gave me the weirdest way to study for the Bar Exam: Pictures. Is he serious?

Background/reason I'm not entirely convinced the prof is messing with me:
It's especially weird because it might actually work.Also it could be fun, because I get to draw pictures.
Seems this stuff is widely used in the Memory Championships and psych learning fields.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/20/magazine/mind-secrets.html?src=me&ref=homepage
http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Memory-Palace

It kinda makes sense. Remember those old storybooks and how they had pictures at the start of sentences sometimes with really fancy lettering? Same idea, you'd partially remember the pictures to jog your memory about the story you're reading. You just make parts of the pictures match up to things you have to remember.

Application Example
I have to remember stupid legal stuff like the elements of suing someone for battery in no time flat.
In plain English, that's when someone hits you and you sue them for money over it. Separate from criminal.

I need to remember (along with a crapton of other things) :
"Battery requires a defendant's action to intentionally cause a harmful or offense contact to the person of the plaintiff."

So I plan to draw a Dogperson... glaring at and kicking a stupid Platypus in the nuts while the Platypus screams "NO!" to remember this. The platypus is dressed as a person for this event "person of the plaintiff" or maybe has a human on his shirt or something. 

What it is supposed to mean:
Defendant is Dogperson (Werewolf)
plaintiff is plaintiff Platypus
Battery is the act of dogperson kicking platypus in the nuts while glaring at him "intently".
Intent eyes = intent required
Platypus "NO!" means the contact (getting kicked in the nuts) is "unprivileged."
The platypus is dressed like a person for this event "person of the plaintiff" or maybe has a human on his shirt or something. 

Larger Organization:
Like the article says, you build a memory palace or a virtual, imaginary place in your head that has pictures engravings or things in it like the stuff you need to remember. Sounds kind of like the engravings on the walls/floors in DF....

I plan to use similar symbols to represent similar things. Pissed off/intent glaring eyes = intent, for example.

Question 1

Is this just too bizarre to work? Is prof just messing with me?

Does anyone want to draw that picture of the Dogperson glaring at and kicking a stupid platypus in the nuts while the platypus screams "NO!"? If no one else does, I'll draw it and post it here. It's just too stupid not to....

Common people he needs to be kicked in the nuts:
http://www.maskworld.com/us/products/costumes/mascots--200/jungle-desert--2003/platypus-mascot--MU-46442

[Darvi]

It might work. I'm more of a visual person myself and learn stuff better if I see how it works or get some other visual association to it rather than dull text or readings from the teacher.
E.g. I'm better at learning how oscillators work if I see a picture of one or even get to work with one during practical lessons. I generally remember graphs and images better than the text related to them.

But then again, it depends entirely on the person.

[Levi]

I like to think this is how Batman memorizes everything.

[Truean]

I like to think this is how Batman memorizes everything.

Me too actually

[Taricus]

I like to think this is how Batman memorizes everything.

Me too actually

Of course, how do you think he teaches the bat brigade 

[Truean]

I like to think this is how Batman memorizes everything.

Me too actually

Of course, how do you think he teaches the bat brigade 

Clearly he's kicked the penguin in the nuts repeatedly; now we need the platypus's nuts kicked

http://www.maskworld.com/us/products/costumes/mascots--200/jungle-desert--2003/platypus-mascot--MU-46442

Just look at 'im--all waving at you like he's just waiting for a dogperson to kick him in the nuts....

Also I think we have our defendant dogperson model:
http://www.maskworld.com/us/products/costumes/mascots--200/dogs--2008/fierce-husky-mascot--MU-45121

[Bohandas]

Ok, so my professor gave me the weirdest way to study for the Bar Exam: Pictures. Is he serious?

Isn't it more traditional to pass the Bar Exam by entering into a compact with Satan?

[Truean]

Ok, so my professor gave me the weirdest way to study for the Bar Exam: Pictures. Is he serious?

Isn't it more traditional to pass the Bar Exam by entering into a compact with Satan?

Yes but have you seen the refunds policy?

Also here's a rough mockup
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Clearly not done and for some reason Photobucket won't show.

The background can be filled with things ABOUT battery that I need to remember like a "OK" Sign for consent, and a telescope with an "OK" sign on it over a yardstick... exceeding the scope of consent...

[Vector]

This is how I learn stuff some of the time.

The rest of the time, I copy it out by hand and think about it obsessively before going to sleep.  If I can't remember, I can't sleep.

My professor told me, once, that "mathematics enters the mind through the hand."  And, to be sure, there's pretty much no other way I can learn things now...


Don't let other people draw your pictures for you, though.  It's the act of creation that will make you remember, not the finished product.

[Truean]

Well yeah but you have to admit that's a hilarious forum activity. Appreciate the input, all great.

What do you think about using DF to construct the memory palace (see first post).

[Heron TSG]

This is remarkably similar to what I already do to remember things for knowledge bowl, though I use a warehouse full of crates a la Indiana Jones.

For Calculus I've started linking lessons to pictures that I doodle. Limits? Oh, that's the day I drew a geometric fractal using this algorithm... and then on the test's scratch paper I recreate the picture which reminds me of everything I was taught about limits.

[Max White]

Well I have known it to work, although I always found musical accosiation to be more effective for me. If I can remeber the names of four mesopetanian kings through song, it should be able to teach just about anything!

[Ricky]

I can't be the only one thinking Perry the Platypus was horribly violated by a werewolf, right?

[Truean]

I can't be the only one thinking Perry the Platypus was horribly violated by a werewolf, right?

O god, that's his leg in motion! Eww. I'm going to have to make it only show the leg at one place in time because of that aren't I? Jesus, everyone thinks anything longer than it is wide.... *mumbles* Clearly has a foot on the end.... *Mumbles* ...not even attached to that part of him.... *Mumbles* There's an arrow showing it move too... *Mumbles*

[breadbocks]

Lawyer, eh? Good luck.