Snapshots of a Modest Life

I'm Going to Fail, That's All There Is To It

I'm sitting in Panera right now studying for my first exam in many years in which most of the content must be memorized. I'm an English major, see, and we don't memorize things. We analyze. We remember details about books, plot points, images, motifs, etc. We don't memorize things. Ever. But that's what this professor wants. Rote memorization. I really don't remember how to do this stuff. I need to know who wrote what in what year (for example, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm wrote Kinder und Hausmarchen in 1812 (1st Vol) & 1815(2nd Vol)). How am I supposed to remember that? I think it's time to bust out the flash cards.