Re: 25 or 50 Things About Yourself: Discussion Thread
karasu said:
i've really wanted to meet someone who has photographic memory...
so, is it true that you never forget anything ever since you can remember?
Its not COMPLETELY photographic. I suppose my mind is mildy photographic. I can memorize something if I look at it once (like a poem, words and their definitions, what page a pcture is on in a text book). As long as it's releativly moderate in size, that is. If it was an epic book or something, then I might have some trouble. What I remember usually depends on the content, and whether or not I was truely paying attention to it. If I were studing for something like a vocab test or an unit test in history class, then I could remember things after a glance, but if I happened to be half-watching a tv show and someone asked me about something specific that happened in it, then I may not be able to remember.
Photographic memories come in various degrees. I had a teacher once who remembered ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. When he told us he had a completely photographic memory, we asked him to prove it. He told us to open the text book and give him any page number in the book. We did, and he recited WORD FOR WORD everything on that page, including the caption under the picture. It was scary.
As far as forgetting goes...again, it depends on the content. I can recite any poem I've ever read, and I can tell the names of every person I've gone to class with, or even gone to school with. I sometimes forget trivial things, like um...what I wore to my own birthday party when I was 9.
Eileen said:
@LadyHatake
I really do want to know if you really do have a great photographic memory. Any tips on how to memorize 5000+ SAT words in less than 3 months time? XD
Oh God. the dreaded SATs. I took my third one back in May, and I should still probably take my subject tests, but...I'm lazy. (Like Shikamaru)
Vocab? hm. Well, you definently won't need all 5,000. First, cross off any words you already know. That should whittle the list down a good chunk. Then, put the remaining words on index cards and study them whenever possible. While eating breakfast, waiting in a checkout line, etc.
Alot of words occur more often than others ( i.e. Colloqial, Clandestine, etc) you could probably find online which ones come up most often, and you could try to focus on those. No matter what, though, you'll get words you don't know, so don't stress toooooo much.
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(my other nickname is Lord_Sephiroth, Final Fantasy VII OWNZ ALL 
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And it was too troublesome (why isn't there enough Shikamaru in Naruto, I wonder).
