Do you remember anything from your degree?

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Twenty years ago, I studied Classics at Cambridge. Mainly Greek history rather than literature. I then took the age old path of becoming a lawyer. Still in practice. I realised the other day that I can't remember much at all from my degree. It's scary to think that I spent four years of my life studying a subject and I can barely remember dates or names.

I wish more people understood that.

Most of the technical stuff was outdated as computers too over a lot of the work (design degree), but the principles are still relevant.
I did a Masters in Counselling Psychology ten years later and hardly remember anything as i went back to work in design afterwards.

I did physics and graduated 40 years ago. I can remember my O levels really clearly, A levels slightly less so, and degree hardly at all. I can remember topic names, Elec and Mag, Medical physics, etc. I now work as a science technician in a school and the teachers who have continued teaching their subject to A level after studying it as a degree, themselves struggle to remember areas not on the A level syllabus.

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@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads I think I was in the same line of work as you - although I branched off into HS&E.

Happily mostly retired now and doing something entirely different!

They were very good at being in the pub drinking as a general rule as well (dated a geology student while at uni and they were all totally piss heads).

First degree - thought I remembered very little and most of it has changed dramatically since I did it (Politics) but then in my second degree they showed a clip which highlighted the topic I did my dissertation on and lots of it came back to me.

Second degree which is directly linked to my job - I'll be honest, I'd have to google up the precise ins and outs of something like paediatric milestones since I don't work a paediatric caseload so don't use that knowledge daily, but the content relevant to my own caseload - so things like capacity assessments, swallowing mechanisms etc - yep I use that stuff pretty much daily. Phonetic transcription I'd be slightly rusty with but I could get by and get back up to speed with pretty quickly - but I loved phonetics at uni.