Study: 4-in-5 Oklahoma City students can’t read clocks

[Irving]

I had a friend in college who went to School of Mines and he couldn't address an envelope. Every month he'd hand his rent check to one of the other roommates to proofread for him. You can only mail the rent to yourself so many times before the other roommates start asking to check your mail.

Also, just because you've been taught something in school, doesn't mean much. We forget most of what we've been taught in school, especially when we don't use it. My daughter learned the analog stuff in school, but I haven't tested her to see if she can actually read a clock. Her school already dropped teaching cursive by the way. She wanted to learn so we bought her a cursive book and she taught herself.

[Joe_K]

Roman Numerals. I'm good up to 10, since I never watch the super bowl that's about it.

Velocitas, Opprimere,
Violentia Operandi

[Jonsey]

I had a friend in college who went to School of Mines and he couldn't address an envelope. Every month he'd hand his rent check to one of the other roommates to proofread for him. You can only mail the rent to yourself so many times before the other roommates start asking to check your mail.

Also, just because you've been taught something in school, doesn't mean much. We forget most of what we've been taught in school, especially when we don't use it. My daughter learned the analog stuff in school, but I haven't tested her to see if she can actually read a clock. Her school already dropped teaching cursive by the way. She wanted to learn so we bought her a cursive book and she taught herself.

That is the truth. There are a lot of things I am not sure if they didn't teach, or if I just wasn't paying attention. I did look out the window a lot. I just couldn't stand to sit inside all day.

[Irving]

I think of things that I learned in my profession during the training, then since I never used them in the field, I forget almost immediately. I'm going through this now. I'm trying to pick up where I left off with a skill from 1-3 years ago where the knowledge atrophied while I wasn't using it actively .

[Jonsey]

I think of things that I learned in my profession during the training, then since I never used them in the field, I forget almost immediately. I'm going through this now. I'm trying to pick up where I left off with a skill from 1-3 years ago where the knowledge atrophied while I wasn't using it actively .

I wouldn't feel bad about that at all. Everyone I know keeps a lot of books around for reference, even for fields they currently work in. I can hardly remember anything from the industry I used to work in. I would need a major review if I were to go back to it.

[Grant H.]

That's a shitload of students for one class. I don't believe I've ever been in a lecture hall that would hold that many...

There are several lecture halls at CU that are big enough for classes that size, but they are mostly on the Engineering and Hard Sciences side of the campus. One of my friends who got an "Arts and Crafts" degree didn't believe me, so I took him over and showed him. Apparently none of his classes were that big.

Crap, even my Calc 1 lecture had 600 students in it.
Chem 1 for Engineers was also a 900-1000???ish lecture.

These all had much smaller lab/TA sessions, that would average 5-25 people to a TA.

[Grant H.]

I'm pretty sure any amount of electronics can't fix her problem.

Then again, maybe she never wrote a letter and sent it snail mail?

Probably the second option.

A handful of my friends thought I was an idiot for sending snail mail letters to my girlfriend/fiance when she lived in OK and I was here in CO. They all suggested technology, but a hand written letter is something special in that situation.

I went to a small baptist high school where they taught us how to mail a letter, something I had learned long ago being home schooled, and I had classmates that were like "I'll never use this"...

[rondog]

Personally, I don't care for digital clocks, but I'm getting used to them somewhat. I just grew up long before they came out, so I prefer analog clocks. I can glance at one and instantly know what time it is. I look at a digital and my brain still tries to convert the numbers to an analog clock face.

[hurley842002]

Eh, that's I have 12, 24, and analog time on my watch, takes the guess work out of it....