vampireapologist:

hemizygous:

glimmersight:

amakthel:

vampireapologist:

god i took my first bio exam on tuesday and I got to a diagram we looked over in class where we had to describe the intricate steps of retrovirus reproduction and I was like “fuck i didnt memorize this diagram I’m screwed” but I came back to it and realized that based on my knowledge of how retroviruses function, I was able to identify every step and I got a perfect score on the exam and I’m just like looking at my hands like

is this what it’s like to actually Understand the material

yes.

Understanding the material is one of the best feelings I get from school.

Buddy… that’s the whole point

Cool I know that but we are raised in an academic system that encourages memorization and regurgitation of materials and most teachers in my life have not cared at all if I didn’t understand something, as long as I could parrot it back to them, which worked until I was in high school and then it turned out that I, like many of my peers, had been set up for failure.

I was “naturally” good at English, so my teachers told me to pursue that. I wanted to pursue science, but it took me longer to catch on, so they told me not to bother and let me fall through the cracks.

So I’ve had to work extremely hard to catch up and find professors willing to teach me basic concepts I should have learned as a teenager or even a child because some teacher back then couldn’t be bothered to spend the extra time.

And now I’m celebrating the fact that I am finally comprehending and thriving so.

That’s the whole point.