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I've been moving house. Yesterday I got a box out of storage which I hadn't opened for 3 years. Inside, I found a bottle of aftershave which I used to wear.
When I smelt it, I found myself immediately awash with memories from the last time I wore that scent, and smelt that smell. Memories in incredible
detail.
Clearly smells unlock detailed memories for me. Students could benefit from this phenomenon by using scratch and sniff exam papers. For example, geography exam papers might smell like chocolate. Eat chocolate whilst revising geography, and your memories would come flooding back on exam day.
Exam boards could make fortunes selling scented "revision candles" as a spin off.
Déjà Smelled
http://www.halfbake.../D_e9j_e0_20Smelled
related [FarmerJohn, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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whats that purple stuff they use for preserving tissue in chemistry/biology? I tipped a bottle of that over my school uniform and smelt quite awfuk for a week. that might bring back a few equations :) |
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I thought everyone knew: If it smells, it's chemistry. |
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[po] You wear a school uniform? |
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of course, doesn't everyone? |
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only in the privacy of my own
home |
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now theres a theme for a halfcon <grin> |
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(scratches Calculus Final exam, sniffs)... "smells like an 'F' ". |
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[po] Well done for struggling on for a week before washing the smell out of your school uniform. The idea of related smells is great. Maybe ripe garlic sausage would bring back those irregular french verbs? |
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it might have been a fortnight, its a St Trinians thing :) |
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It diminishes the chances of you melting your pea shooter in a hot wash anyway. |
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The idea is wonderful (+), but could you really associate all the necessary smells? And what would happen if you used the same smell in two different years? |
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As I recall, college smelled like coffee and pencil lead. I would still be confused on my exams if this particular smellervation was in effect. Besides what if the exam odor was strongly tied to a traumatic period of my early life? |
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Just make sure you don't sniff on Madeleine cookies, or you'll be late with your exams paper! |
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And if you have nasal problems, this might not be so great. :P |
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Just for you [detly] I'll add a scratch and lick exam paper. Marks deducted if you hand in your answers soggy, though. |
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There have been some exams that I have seriously considered eating. |
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My last French exam chewed me up and spat me out. |
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This summer I ended up invigilating final degree exams in the very room (actually an organic chemistry teaching lab) where I took my own finals *** years ago. I wasn't prepared for how the smell of the room (some kind of combination of organic solvents, camphor and burning - the standard org chem lab smell) would take me back to that nervous, slightly sick feeling before an exam. |
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I dealt with this by walking around the room, looking over the shoulders of the students and muttering things like "surely not" and "riiiiiiiiiiiiiight" under my breath. |
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