Flash Cards to Remember More of What We Studied Long Term

[eriehiker]

I think that the best thing is just to search quizlet for topics and practice those card sets.  Many of those sets have been created to review college classes and you can just use them rather than creating your own.

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Also, it would also be a good idea to think about what you learned in a class and then create a project that is based on the learning and then post the results on a web page or on github.  It might be something useful for someone else and then it also shows that you can integrate the knowledge into real life.  Actual use of the knowledge also helps with keeping the knowledge fresh in your brain.  So it is a win-win-win.  You maintain the knowledge, you create something that helps other people and the project makes you look good.

That's a really good idea. Do you have any examples you can think of? I mean, it seems easy when it comes to subjects like Computer Science. I can make a program and put it online. But I'm not sure how I'd go about that for things like History.

Well, the simplest idea is to create a web site or blog and post a high-quality, researched article.  This is actually what you would do in a class anyway.  Most of the time, we complete an assignment for a class and then file it away on a disk drive.  However, if the paper is/was good enough, people might actually want to read it and it could be posted.  For many years, I wrote an outdoors/environmental blog for a local newspaper.  I had readership of about 30,000 per month.  Again, people could start thinking about class assignments as content.

If the writing was good enough, a person could submit it to actual journals and publications.  I once wrote about a figure in my home town's early history.  He ran a local bridge and was kind of a justice of the peace.  As I researched his story, I found that he had grown up in France and was involved in the French Revolution.  His particular faction lost favor and he ended up in the United States.  I ended up getting it published in a local magazine.