I tried to pass the time by recalling mnemonics which had helped to get me through my medical examinations, but for so many the "clean" form gave way to the form preferred by young men in excellent health whose instruction in science and medicine had done nothing to quench their natural lusts -- did, indeed, encourage them.
Consider, for instance, the Twelve Cranial Nerves of the brainstem:
I
Olfactory On Oh!
II Optic
Old Oh!
III
Oculomotor Olympus' Oh!
IV
Trochlear Towering To
V
Trigeminal Tops Touch
VI
Abducens A And
VII
Facial Finn Feel
VIII
Acoustic And A
IX
Glossopharyngeal German Girl's
X Vagus
Viewed Vagina
XI
Accessory Some And
XII
Hypoglossal Hops Hymen!
Science students have always had the ability of taking unbelievable detours to study. I have seen for myself how some people used to do strange things to study the periodic table.Mnemonic techniques tend to be naughty because then you reach a win-win situation, I mean, on the one hand you end up learning the twelve Cranial Nerves of the brainstem but on the other hand, you make laugh your mates. And although many of these rules have a collective authorship, there is usually someone talented for these jokes.As Gerardo Diego said about his future and hypothetical students on toasting for his position of a teacher,
And another , surely the most clever one,
will give me a definitive alias
The naughty
mnemonic techniques and the definitive alias of a teacher are stuff not well
appreciated in your official CV but they give you a lot of prestige with your
mates. However, students of tough sciences as Physics or Chemistry are not very
keen of this method, even they disregard it, as we can see in what The physic Enrico
Fermi said when the subatomic particles began to increase: ´if I could remember
the name of all of these particles, I´d have been a botanic´
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