How to Learn

[Polyplunger]

   All people learn things: It's a simple fact that, using sensory input,
   everyone learns. But what character this learning takes, and how
   efficient it is, can be modified using special techniques. One of the
   most popular of these is mneumonical analysis, whereby one creates a
   neat saying, jingle, rhyme, allegory, allusion, or whatever one feels
   comfortable with to understand something more complicated and
   quantitative. For example many people use the following jig to sort
   clothing:
   There once was a blouse in a box!
   A t-shirt on the clothesline, red as a fox!
   Corduroy pants belong in there!
   Blue jeans in a closet as big as a bear!
   Anyone can see how this would aid an old maid to complete her
   household chores. Yet the extent of mneumonic usability also extends
   into the specialised trades, such as biochemistry. Inherent to
   biochemistry is remembering the structures of large, complex
   molecules, and polar enough the leisure sport baseball is commonly
   used to create mneumonics for organic molecules. "There's a methyl on
   third" can be used to remember that dimethyltryptamine has a methyl in
   the third position; but it can also be correlated with having a player
   on third base. Often, molecules can be mnemonisised to specific plays
   of historic baseball matchups. The famed game when Babe Ruth's
   flatulence ripped a hole in his pants, while there were no men on
   base, can be used to remember methane's structure. It is quite common
   these days to see students taking biochemistry students buying in bulk
   tickets to baseball games, or, during the off season, renting tapes.
   The mneumonic is a powerful, wonderful beast.