{"id":433,"date":"2012-05-03T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T20:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2012-05-03T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T20:09:09","slug":"learning-forgetting-after-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/college\/learning-forgetting-after-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning &amp; Forgetting after Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/forgot_algebra.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This post was too funny to not write about! One of the most common arguments (or discussions) we&#8217;ve heard again and again is that years from now you likely won&#8217;t remember most of what your professors taught you, but you will remember the memories you had with friends, fraternity brothers, and sorority sisters.<\/p>\n<p>So whan it comes to isoteric courses, what are the takeaways you&#8217;ll get from them? Will algabra, trigonometry or discreet mathematics be that useful to you if you don&#8217;t go into accounting, banking, or engineering?<\/p>\n<p>For those who do need to brush up on skills, either for your job, a professional test, or a graduate school test, we&#8217;d recommend these two web sites, Khan Academy and Coursera (Coursera recently launched). \u00a0Both are free resources that allow you to learn at your own pace.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.coursera.org<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.khanacademy.org<\/p>\n<p>Let us know how you like it. \u00a0For a preview of Khan Academy videos, check out one of the videos from Khan Academy below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was too funny to not write about! One of the most common arguments (or discussions) we&#8217;ve heard again and again is that years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[227,280,364,417],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-forgetting","tag-graduation","tag-knowledge","tag-online-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}