School takes up a large portion of our lives. Most of us go to school from the age of 4 or 5 until we're 18; that's a lot of time spent in a classroom! Your recollection of most of that time spent learning has probably grown a bit fuzzy, if you're more than a couple of years out of school, if it hasn't started to fade from your memory completely.
Different things stick out in different people's memories though, so it's super interesting to see what kind of things we all remember. Reddit user alpacaballs asked a great question to get those memories flowing:
"Out of all the classes you took from middle through high school, what piece of information do you remember the clearest?"
I think my clearest class memory is a song I learned in my freshman year Japanese class. Kobayashi Sensei taught us a song to remember the words for all of the days of the month in Japanese that don't use standard number words (like first, second, third, etc. in English). It has been...let's say more than 10 years...and I still remember it clearly because it was set to music.
Reddit users didn't disappoint with their random and sometimes hilarious memories, so read some of the best ones below.
That's One Way To Get Your Students' Attention
“Kinky People Can Often Find Great Sex" My 11th grade bio teacher said this once and only once and I've never forgotten it.
Kingdom phylum class Order Family Genus Species
Pythagoras Strikes Again
That damn **Pythagorean theorem.**
It's taking up valuable brain real estate.
You could probably use it to calculate exactly how much real estate.
A Rainbow of Knowledge
How colours work: The object is absorbing all of the wavelengths / colours of the visible spectrum, except the colour it appears to be (which it reflects). White objects are reflecting all of the colours in the spectrum, and black objects absorb all of them (which is why you feel extra warm when wearing black on a sunny day).
It's Actually A Moebius Strip
How to draw the cool S.
The thing with the triangle on top and bottom of two rows of three parallel lines where the row as are connected via diagonals.
... I realize this isn't helpful if you don't already know what it looks like.
The Verdict
OJ was found not guilty. My clearest recollection of High School was watching the verdict in Physics class.
Always Ask Questions
I didn't know what "egregious" meant.
A test in my history class only had one question, "What egregious acts did the natives incur from the colonists?"
I didn't know what the word meant, so I guessed, and sited a few treaties about their reallocation, and mentioned nothing of the horror they indured.
I failed it.
The moral of the story was, I'll never be too proud to ask a question again. If I don't know what something means, it only makes sense to ask.
-caleb48k
Don't Lick It
When collecting rocks it can often be useful to lick them to help in identifying them. If you can see a blue streak int them, don't though, as that could be arsenic. I believe this to be true, but never really looked into it, because I don't collect rocks. I remember it because I got pissed at that teacher and told him to go lick the blue rock.
That'd be a great insult at a bar or something. Both insulting and confusing at once.
Is It Though?
PLEASE EXCUSE MY DEAR AUNT SALLY
MY VERY EDUCATED MOTHER JUST SERVED US NINE ... PIZZAS
Pluto is a planet.
I'm a Little Nucleotide
The makeup of nucleotides.
The biology teacher in middle school taught us a song he made up, which I haven't forgotten to this day.
"Here is mr nucleotide. A Pentose for his nose. One eye is a phosphate, the other a nitrogenous base."
7th Grade Woes
In 7th grade, we had to memorize the helping verbs. AM AS ARE WAS WERE HAVE HAS HAD DO DOES DID CAN COULD WILL WOULD MAY MIGHT SHALL SHOULD MUST BE BEEN. Why this is stuck in my brain years later I don't know.
Same with another 7th grade useless moment, how to say "Can I throw this piece of paper in the garbage can?" Puis-je jeter ce morceau de papier à la poubelle?
7th grade was a weird year.
Redditor _ReDd1T_UsEr wanted to discuss the reasons why many of us decided to cut some people out of our lives, so they asked:
"What was the reason why your friendship ended with someone?"
Sometimes a person just has to go.
Planning Stages
Weekend Sunday GIF by DisneyGiphy"I stopped being the first to always initiate plans, and that was that."
Witty-Surround-6541
"I once asked a friend to plan our next breakfast + walk outing, since I always did that. He wrote me a letter ending the friendship. Stunning!"
fermat9996
Pants on Fire
"Habitual lying became too annoying and disruptive to tolerate."
Hosscatticus_Dad523
"When you constantly are thinking... this math ain't matching lol. People that lie all the time make me sick. I've told multiple friends that you don't have to lie to me."
"I feel so much better when someone can trust me and feel comfortable telling me a hard truth than an easy lie."
"Even if the truth made me feel some type of way, I'm still glad it was honest. I've even said thank you to people in the past that have been honest with me, good or bad! Some people just can not help lying about things. I wouldn't be able to ever keep a story straight if I did that."
__eden_
Bad Behavior
"He kept having kids with different girls and bailing on them. Coming from a 'went out for a pack of smokes' Dad myself, I just couldn't watch it anymore. Bailed after the third one. Think he's up to 6 now."
KingGuy420
"Reminds me of one of my ex-friends. She kept having kids with MULTIPLE guys (all of them were one-night stands), I don't think she even knows who the baby daddies are."
"She also kept begging me and people for money for pot, and she also bragged about having OnlyFans. She'd also make up stories about being in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend (she'd also cheat on him/tell people her and him they broke up, which they weren't)."
wisconsinking
Reasons
"I was a bad person and they ended it for perfectly sensible reasons. I would have done the same. I've changed, but I don't blame them for not reconsidering contact."
tabletopsidekick
"I’ve been there. I was a bad person and lost friendships and family relationships. I tried to apologize to everyone I hurt."
PDXGalMeow
"I also accepted that they don’t want me in their lives anymore. I learned that I made my mistakes, I learned from them, and I accept their choices. I don’t self-hate anymore and I try to be a better person in general. I hope you are doing well and practicing self-love and forgiveness."
PDXGalMeow
Money Issues
Donald Duck Money GIFGiphy"I lent them $20 and then they avoided me so they didn’t have to pay me back. Worth the $20."
BuickAssault
"I don't ever expect prompt returns of small amounts of money between my friends... we all buy each other rounds or buy the food for the BBQ or whatever. It ends up evening out over time I think we'd notice though if someone was always taking and never giving and then they'd probably get cut off too."
Badloss
In the immortal words of Cyndi Lauper... "Money Changes Everything."
Lack of Support
Happy Planning GIFGiphy"She joined a pyramid scheme selling butt-ugly leggings and it took over her whole life. When I finally told her it was negatively affecting our friendship, she accused me of not supporting her 'business.'"
LeftandLeaving9006
Oh Driver
"I was basically a taxi for my friends so I dumped them all."
Bullfrog_Little
"This one I can understand but depends on the situation. Not all of my friends had cars in high school, so our group needed to have me and my sh*tty '94 Plymouth Sundance come, or they couldn't do anything. I didn't mind at all then, but I definitely would these days."
Hoopajoops
"I remember I used to drive around with my buddies all the time before they had licenses. When one of my friends got his and a car I said sweet now you can drive me around for a bit, he replied that he wasn't gonna waste his money on gas like that. See ya, haven't really spoken to him since."
DontcallmeShirley_82
2063
"How's this for oddly specific: Friend since 1980, was hanging out at a bar in 1992 and there was a dispute of over a $15.00 bar tab. I was in the right, but whatever - he held a grudge for years."
"Ran into him in 2017 and we were both too old to care. Started to see each other now and then. 2023 and we're at this local bar for a show and got into a fight about $15.00 a ticket."
"Maybe he'll call me in 2063."
The68Guns
Exhausting
"She was a taker, constantly. When I needed something she made it about her yet again. Exhausting to be around."
LordyIHopeThereIsPie
"I'm going through this right now. Can't tell you how many texts I have from her in the past few days telling me that I need to get over myself, need to stop making myself the victim, have been a terrible friend, have never been there for her."
"She's the most narcissistic person I know and everyone does everything for her. She has one of the easiest lives ever and anytime anything bad happens to her she believes that everyone is against her and she's the victim here. It's pure insanity. There is no talking sense to people like this."
cheeseburgerwaffles
Life Changes
point pointing GIF by Shalita GrantGiphy"I've lost like all but two of my 'friends' because I stopped drinking and doing hard drugs."
ConcertTerrible8877
"Same here dude. My circle is small but hey at least it's a circle I know I can go to."
Miss_mayonnaise
Oh, how things change when the booze dries up.
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