Task #1 Urban Dictionary

TASK - Use the comment button to share a sentence from the definition you found in Urban Dictionary.  

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Comments

[ambrzost]

I fear that I might have a case of academic bulimia because I frequently memorize information and just purge it all onto the exam for which I “learned” it.

[Lmdixon]

Most professors give multiple choice exams which support academic bulimia. I cram before the exam and then don’t remember any of the information afterwards.

[crreid]

I suffered from academic bulimia for an entire semester of Statistics.

[glenn]

Most tests involving the memorization of terms promote academic bulimia because the terms are often memorized and forgotten shortly after the exam.

[lrmark]

A more interactive learning setting can combat against academic bulemia.

[ambrzost]

I do agree that test forms and learning settings do definately promote academic bulimia, but I also find that I do the same type of memorizing even for short answer tests. Maybe it's just my method of studying because I've always done well on tests and I do actually retain the memorized information I find interesting.

[jpmatthi]

I had no idea that my method of studying was a serious disorder.

[cvbaugh]

I have been suffering from academic bulimia since high school.

[mjgras]

Many students suffer from academic bulimia because they wait till the last minute to prepare for an exam.

[kaniva]

I suffer from academic bulimia, and it seems to get worse with each exam I take.

[Pelantag]

I feel academic bulimia has a direct relationship with students not connecting to the material.

[Nicole Stemen]

I just had the worst case of academic bulimia. After cramming for my exam last night, I took my exam by regurgitating everything I had memorized—and now I don’t remember a thing!

[Nicole Stemen]

I completely agree.

[ccburke]

I can't stand having academic bulimia because after a test I forget it all and wasted to much time craming.

[Brett Girard]

I didn’t study all semester, but because of a case of academic bulimia, I aced the exam.

[Robert Zychowski]

Academic bulimia affects me the most when I stay up all night to study for an exam for a class I have no preference towards, so after the exam I forget everything.

[Jonathon Folse]

I experience academic bulimia especially during multiple choice exams; one hour after the test its as if I haven't studied at all.

[cekangas]

I have just been self-diagnosed with a disease called academic bulimia; at every exam I write the answers on the answer key and as soon as its over I forget everything immediately as if I had never learned anything.

[Robert Zychowski]

I would have to say I'm one of these people

[jedowney]

I think about school as if the information comes in on a binge and then I use it once that would be my reasoning for my academic bulimia.

[jedowney]

I completely agree that it feels as if it is a waste of time and effort on a students part.

[dkraisan]

I suffer from academic bulimia when an exam comes directly off of a practice exam which uses the same questions which can be memorized then quickly forgotten.

[jaylital]

Academic bulemia is one of the most severe side-effects of procrastination.

[tamikkel]

For my last exam I had a severe case of academic bulimia. I don't remember a thing.

[labegin]

Getting ready for my exam tomorrow all I have done is just read all the chapters and it will all just come out in the exam, like academic bulimia, without even remembering anything I was supposed to learn.

[cvbaugh]

I have experienced this before and the problem gets worse because it has been successful, but sometimes it doesn't work. Then you keep telling yourself I'm not going to let it happen again and then you do it again.

[Lubing Chen]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=academic+bulemia
Create sentence: When some people learn a concept, they just try to remember the definition by the words, but not try to understand what does it mean, we really should avoid this kind of academicbulemia.

[tamikkel]

I definitely agree with your statement you have learned the information, but just enough so that I can get a good grade on the exam and that is all.

[mrmeyers 93]

I personally think that academic bulemia can be avoided if teachers used more hands on examples and activities becuase it sort of forces you to make an imprint in your mind of what you are doing. It helps the learning process. I suffer from academic bulemia and it is frustrating becuase you spend so much studying but just cannot remember information when it comes time to actually apply it.

[meschmie]

I find that the instructors teaching style sometime helps make academic bulimia more likely to happen, but I guess I still am getting A's so I can't complain to much.

[meschmie]

Even though I had a bad case of academic bulemia I still got an A on the exam.

[Jonathon Folse]

I agree with this. Many times when I learn important facts and RETAIN IT, it is because of this hands on method you previously described. Not just from listening to lectures and spewing it back out.

[Xander]

Man, I academic bulemia’d all over that exam.

[rbunger]

Essay exams are a form of preventing academic bulimia because you actually need to know and understand the information if you are going to write about it.

[Snhurt]

When I study just hours before a quiz or an exam I am practicing academic bulimia because I only put this information into my short term memory. Shortly after the exam I forget all material.

[Ellen Sherry]

This is exactly how I learn as well. If more of my classes were thought provoking and interesting I feel I would learn the material a lot better

[Ellen Sherry]

I think that academic bulemia can also come with teachers no caring enough to be passionate about the material and make the lectures interesting enough, they just lecture off slides and no one remembers the information

[Ellen Sherry]

I completely agree with this, If teachers made lectures more interesting with a creative way to teach students, many more students would remember the information.

[Caleb MM]

Studying for the Calculus exam has been unbelievably boring and just plain difficult- all the lessons I went over last night, that I engrained in my brain, memorized inside and out, have know up and left via the perplexing case of academic bulimia, which I seem to exclusively develop every time while the test is being handed out.

[BBall]

I usually suffer from academic bulemia when I have to take an exam after a long road trip for basketball. I try to cram the night before the exam, and I usually do well on the exam but forget everything soon after.

[R Spring]

I forgot about a Statistics exam until the day of the exam last semester. I had four hours to study for exam, I passed the test with a C but I suffered from Academic Bulemia because I didnt remember nothing from that exam on the comprehensive final.