Well I don’t know them, and I’m poor, I just didn’t know I was a failure.

My Geography teacher predicted that future for me too when I refused to do the same practice papers twice in a row (she thinks rote memorisation is key).

I got As for most subjects including Geography.

Do teachers require memorization nowadays? That makes no sense in the modern era.

There’s… Antimony arsenic aluminum serinium And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and remium And nickel neodymium neptunium germanium And iron americium ruthenium uranium

And a whole lot of others that I’ve forgotten the song to. I knew it at one point…

I have a massive poster on my wall of all the elements, and assorted technical properties, like melting point, boiling point, atomic mass, half life, density and electronegativity and abundances in Earth’s crust, the universe, and the human body. Problem solved.

I failed a science class (biology?) because I refused to write the 3 hours worth of vocabulary homework we were assigned every night. Hand writing vocabulary, out of the book, just because. Never had any bearing on how well I did on other assignments, but the homework was a large part of the overall grade, and for some reason NOT actually knowing the material.