If you did a degree, how much can you remember??

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I studied English Literature nearly twenty years ago and can hardly remember a thing (and have barely read a book cover to cover since!). Someone asked me my favourite author and I couldn't even think who it is really so just mumbled something about Jane Austen and Shakespeare. If you did a degree a while ago, can you actually remember much of what you learnt??

I think I could write 2-3 A4 pages on my undergraduate degree. Less on my master's, even though that was (obviously) more recent.

Quite a bit, I've forgotten some of the more theoretical, abstract stuff but my career is related to my degree so I've used loads of what I've learnt over the years.

Law degree so I can remember a reasonable amount - the bits related to the area of law I work in. Not all of it though!

Barely anything 😕

All of my post grad degree and most of my undergrad degree, although there are bits I’d need to refresh because I haven’t done them in years. My degrees are vocational though.

A fair bit but I've got a good memory. I've often thought I'd like to study more on the topics I was interested in but only without having to write essays or do exams.

I am so glad it is not just me. I recently was cleaning out some boxes I had stored in my parents attic. I found some old exam papers and essays from University. I genuinely did not understand the questions in some of the papers that I answered. Not to mind say be able to answer them

Zoology

I remember bits and pieces

@sunnydaleslayer I'm amazed you remember anything with all those late nights in the graveyard, staking vamps / snogging Riley etc.

Loads, why?

[quote DiseasesOfTheSheep]@sunnydaleslayer I'm amazed you remember anything with all those late nights in the graveyard, staking vamps / snogging Riley etc.[/quote]
I had a lot on my plate at the time but managed to catch up as a mature student a few years later. After Willow's spell, the burden was lessened.

I thought I was weird for this. Did English too. All I remember is how much I hated it!

All of it as i did Nursing which we use working.

Virtually nothing. Law degree, nearly 20 years ago. Didn't become a lawyer so didn't need to use any of it.

@BobVance

Fuck all. History degree. Work in finance now.

Are you me?? This!

@sunnydaleslayer Well it's only fair you got a bit of a break, you didn't exactly have it easy

This thread makes me feel better

I'm 45 and my friends seem surprised I don't remember degree stuff. It feels like a whole life happened since then - well it has - and I don't mind that I don't remember but wasn't sure if it was a sign of crappy brain!

Very little, can barely remember the name of the degree something like Social & Welfare Policy. It was 40 years ago ... doing some lockdown de-cluttering & came across the final exam papers (obviously old fashioned essays written in long hand in those days) ... couldn't even understand what the questions meant, to my shame.

French. Remember quite a lot about the books I loved, including quotations, and linguistics. Still speak it and read it pretty well. Cant understand spoken Frenx6h though (unless I have subtitles on). Was a mature student.

I think the point of studying for a degree is often to demonstrate a skill set of some sort, rather than the actual knowledge, unless you go into that field vocationally. I've forgotten much of my (politics) degree in terms of the details, but I think it gave me confidence, and the ability to bore people rigid, which I often did!!

Geography 20 years ago. Remember a bit of it as I really enjoyed it and there was a lot of practical elements.

English Literature 40 years ago. Still remember a lot of the novels and will sometimes go to a play l studied if l see one on. Often surprised in a quiz how something will come back eg from Shakespeare. Loved it but went on to be a Primary Teacher so it's mainly been a hobby since.

I’d love to go back and do it all again. I’d do it so much better this time.

I remember lots but I’m much more interested in it now (history) and would read around the subject more and question things.

Law. I remember general concepts but had to learn totally new skills when I started practising. Law school-type law does not come up all that much in my day-to-day work so I have forgotten latin terms and most famous cases from back in the day. But I have to learn the law that is relevant in my area of speciality which is underpinned by the general concepts I learnt in university but comes with its own and whole new area to learn.

That makes three of us on this thread @TheNextCaroleMiddleton ! Perhaps we should start a club.