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The million sats question, do you remember any of the obscure economic theories you were forced to gulp down in your undergraduate years?
During a memory workshop last year, the facilitator asked me to recite Avogadro’s constant since I said that I was trained in chemistry. I have not thought about this number for twenty years, but to my surprise I recited the constant even before my conscious brain kicked in to process his question.
I feel like my PhD program literally gave me brain damage. There are a ton of things from physics (my initial undergraduate background) that I used to have memorized, like Avogadro's number.
Now, I mostly just remember the qualitative relationships and some of the explanations for them, but the precise numbers and formulas have mostly drifted into the ether.
You said almost everything I was going to. I never had to know my mom's bank account number, but no doubt I could have remembered that too. I still remember several of my childhood friends' phone numbers, and yet, I have no idea what their current phone numbers are.