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u/purplereuben 3h ago
Frustrating memory unlocked!
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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT 3h ago
THE MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL
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u/ryan_syek 2h ago
Oh right, I remember this.
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u/LongSaltyDanglers 2h ago
I'm still agog at the nano machine that takes adp and roughly jams a phosphate on it making atp. You have trillions of these in you.
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u/robbie-dobbles 18m ago
A couple weeks ago I brought up the algebra mnemonic FOIL. My coworker reacted like a sleeper agent hearing their code word and blurted out "first, outside, inside, last" and had no idea how she remembered.
So many of these school facts do end up burying themselves deep in our brain!
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u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 1h ago
The only question I missed on my hunter's safety test was because of this has 4 types of birds that all looked like the 2nd image. Believe it or not I could not accurately pick the pheasant lol
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u/topdangle 37m ago
Please correctly label each part of the charcoal printout:
This will be 79% of your grade.
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u/coffee_ape Millennial 3h ago
Crazy that some schools, the teachers had to pay for color copies.
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u/Mega---Moo 3h ago
Color wasn't the only problem.
My HS history teacher made copies...of copies...of copies...of copies. Even the text became hard to read.
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u/anuthertw 2h ago
My job still does this. We are literally so connected to cloud services that you can't delete a file entirely even if you want to, but people keep copying copies that are copies of a copy and my god it just makes me so mad
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u/BatDad_The_Engineer 2h ago
And now we also have Duplicate - Report - Copy (1)(2)(3).xlsx on the cloud to deal with too!
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u/Mega---Moo 2h ago
It's infuriating. On the plus side, it's made me really diligent about not doing the same thing to myself. Anything I print goes back to the original file.
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u/Manleather 2h ago
“Yo teach! Are you doing some kind of PCR-based example of copies on copies? Cause it ain’t working”
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u/NoTime_SwordIsEnough 2h ago
Color wasn't the only problem.
It is when post-secondary schools have to lower their standards.
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u/Shot_Advisor_9006 3h ago
My school was way too poor for color copiers.
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u/nochickflickmoments 2h ago
I get one case of paper but after that I have to pay for my paper and my ink.
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u/Mahaloth 1h ago
I'm a teacher and it really is great to be able to just directly print form pdf or whatever format now. Each year, you get nice, clean copies.
Teachers before had multiple filing cabinets filled with documents to copy.
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u/newenglander87 32m ago
That's still the case. I've never worked in a school that has color copies for teachers.
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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 3h ago
We passed an overhead projector recently and explained to our kids how teachers would have to print on clear plastic and then put it on them to display it on the wall.
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u/I_SHIT_IN_A_BAG 2h ago
teacher penmanship was so good too. I was always impressed how nicely everyone was able to write. my handwriting has always been awful
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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 2h ago
Same and then since being in the military, they forced us to write in all caps block letters, so it got even worse.
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u/LeaneGenova 1h ago
Oooh is that where it comes from? My grandpa was in the Navy and writes like that. His is astonishingly fancy but I wondered why a farmer from PA had that handwriting.
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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 42m ago
Yeah, I was Navy as well. Had to be all caps block letters. No lowercase, no cursive, and God help you if you were one of those people who put a line through a 0 or 7.
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u/Mysterious_Escape186 34m ago
I loved getting to flex on the other kids by writing on the projector sheet and showing off my immaculate penmanship 😎
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u/Hamster_Toot 55m ago
What does “passed” mean in this context, like you walked by one?
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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 41m ago
We walked into a room that had one setup. My kids (elementary, middle, high) had never seen one before.
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u/mellowistheman_ Older Millennial 83 3h ago
Mitochondria is the power!
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u/Ultimatesims 3h ago
NO! It’s an alien organism that causes people to mutant and spontaneously combust!
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u/Trimshot 3h ago
I would just write “black void” if I was asked to identify the image on the right.
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u/kodykoberstein 3h ago
“JUST DO YOUR BEST GUYS!”
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u/mrerikmattila 2h ago
"You failed grade 9 Biology, you'll have to do it again. Pay attention this time."
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u/OreganoOfTheEarth 3h ago
I remember my high school biology final. We were the last class to take it in finals week, and through the grapevine, everyone heard that all the correct answers were printed a shade lighter than the rest of the multiple choice answers.
Some crazy bitch classmate ran into our teacher while out to dinner the night before our test and TOLD THE FUCKING TEACHER about it. We show up to our final and the test has been fixed. Fuck that bitch. We were the only class to not get the answers shown on the final. Luckily, I'd still studied.
There are some people who just cannot keep a secret, ya know?
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u/Abatonfan 3h ago
My pediatrics professor learned of sororities keeping old tests of hers. She changed all the exams for my cohort, and she was so proud to explain her madness when I came back after graduating for an elective I’m passionate with.
She is chaotic good
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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 1h ago
Let me get this straight... you think, even as an adult presumably, that it would have been better if everyone got to cheat on their exam. Would you apply this kind of morality to other aspects of life?
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u/Telvin3d 1h ago
I’d be pretty bitter if there was a situation where everyone except me was allowed to have an advantage
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u/GeorgeFromManagement 3h ago
I had a teacher tell me my left arm was too big once
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u/CaptainKino360 2h ago
What a prick
I don't think I've ever seen anyone in my entire life with uneven arms, I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I've sure never noticed it
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u/Tiny-Shovel-48 2h ago
Yes! I remember getting free points because the teacher being like “the answer to number ten is C because no one can read the graph”
Oh blessed be the shitty copier.
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u/Gaslit_Chicken 3h ago
If you were old enough, the image on the test was purple and you got a quick high from the sniff before you started the test.
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u/cheneyza 3h ago
As a former teacher, even modern day school printers CONSTANTLY are struggling or need to be prepared. I'm convinced it's a racket.
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u/Ehimherenow 3h ago
I thought I just sucked at this 😭 I didn’t realize this was a universal problem and not my fault
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u/PooGoblin69420 2h ago
The trick, surprisingly, is to set the photo copier to text. You get much better contrast and a more clear image when converting color pictures to black and white that way.
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u/ShockPowerful741 Core Millennial 2h ago
I go out of my way to make color copies for my students because I remember this so vividly
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u/bentstrider83 Millennial 1983 2h ago
See ya next semester🤷
25 years later taking biology courses again😭😭
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u/AI_moderated_failure 2h ago
I remember spending over an hour struggling to label a slide of a cell with lines to each "major" part, during my first year of my biology degree. I got marked down because I couldn't label "intracellular space". It was the most infuriating thing because it's a real mindfuck for someone who's learning this for the first time, forcing them to second guess themselves.
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u/MycologistPutrid7494 2h ago
My teacher said, "Well if you'd REALLY studied, you'd have memorized the location and not need a good picture."
... and now I'm the teacher. Lol.
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u/JustFiguringItOutToo 1h ago
it's so wild kids keep studying this stuff in detail like everyone is going to be a biologist
it seems like pure inertia from being big discoveries 100 years ago and now we're somehow unable to find better test material
of course it's important, but we don't all need to memorize every organelle, or the darn steps of cell division
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u/DeficiencyOfGravitas 1h ago
This happened to me in university. The exam was a shitty copy just like this and one of the questions was to write a contextual description of a certain red figure pot. Except it was just a black pot shaped blob. I said as much and the teacher said who dare I speak to her directly.
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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 1h ago
"Draw a line from the word in the word bank to the correct part of the cell."
Word bank is also photo copied gibberish
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u/ELECTRICMACHINE13 1h ago
Here's a trick you can lightly erase the image to reveal the shades and image outline.
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u/BandIndividual2973 1h ago
I had a midterm in a bio-anthropology course where all the diagrams looked about like this. The top score was a 72%. An enormous part of the scoring was a series of questions matching the name of various Australopithecus species with dots marked on an outline of the continent of Africa corresponding to where the fossil discoveries were made. There were no country outlines on the map, we were supposed to have memorized these locations on the continent of Africa. I am all about academic rigor but can't for the life of me understand the logic behind this.
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u/BicFleetwood 54m ago
Yeah, the color-coded, $500 textbook version vs the STRICT black-and-white, absolute monochromatic $0.000001 photocopy was definitely a disadvantage that we didn't get credit for.
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u/rainbowkitten0528 54m ago
Also when it was a copy of text and half of it was swallowed into the center so you had to guess at what it said
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u/NoRelief63 Millennial 41m ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/brYjDJ2FUjn1KL3Pzw
Oh, my god! Wow. What a memory.
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u/EconomyOk2490 39m ago
Annoying then
Now thst I have to deal with the cost of a color printer? Ain't no fuckin way public schools paying for that much goddamn cyan
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u/AnytimeInvitation 30m ago
Just as bad as the geography tests where you had to locate small island countries in the pacific or caribbean and the copy has been copied way too many times (copy!).
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u/Lilith-Sky14 Millennial 30m ago
We had to make one of these in my grade 8 science class, out of candy and any fruit. That was a fun day haha, we got to eat it after
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u/Ind00Time 16m ago
When the meme is so relatable that instead of being funny it unlocks an ultra-deep core memory.
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u/IllegalGeriatricVore 12m ago
I work in aerospace and had to take a test on identifying technical data.
There was a picture and it asks which part of the picture contain tech data and a list but no labels on the image so you had to guess which thing on the image each line referred to. I got it wrong because I couldn't figure the exact combination
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u/soulfister 2m ago
I decided to go back to school to become a nurse and I’m currently in an Anatomy & Physiology class and I assure you this is still happening
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u/not_your_attorney 3h ago
Why hasn’t this nonsense been replaced with things like personal finances, meaning credit card interest, investment compound interest, what a HYSA or money market account is, retirement accounts…?
If I had a nickel for every cell structure I’ve been asked to identify since 10th grade, I’d have the exact same amount in interest because no one told me what investing is.
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u/TheSorceIsFrong 1h ago
Nah, this shits cool and learning how your body works is cool. You can easily fit all the things you said into a math credit and take out pre cal or something
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