I still have this dream, and I’ve been out of college now for 12 years. My God, has it really been that long? I tend to wonder whether or not it’s related to anxiety over forgetting everything you ever learned. I don’t think I can even remember how to do integration by parts. I definitely couldn’t design an amplifier or other such electrical circuit without spending days hitting the books and relearning everything. Hell, I’m not sure I even remember the math for complex electronic circuits. I barely remember the physics of a transistor.
And I’m an electrical engineer. This is what I get for working in IT for 10 years. I guess it’s true what they say, your major is the subject you will learn and forget the most about.
I have this dream all the time. I have both a BS & an MBA and have never had this happen in real life, yet it haunts me in my dreams….very troubling.
Oh dude. I’ve had that dream over and over, and I started college in ’89.
I hate the “hey wait… how did I end up not going to this class until now?” part.
I have a version of it, too. The first time I did, it was so vivid that I actually logged into my old college account to pull up my transcript to see if it was based off of a class I took or dropped.
Funny you should mention that. While I learned my electronics via the Marine Corps and not through college, it was 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, for six months of nothing BUT electronics (no Womyn’s Struggle Against the Patriarchal Oppression Studies or Comparative Religion classes to clutter things up).
I still have some of my old notebooks with all my class notes and when I look at them, they might as well be in Mandarin. I remember not one whit of it. The most I remember from all the circuitry and wires was that 440 volts hurts like hell.
It’s been nearly 32 years since I got my BSEE and 24 years since I got my MSEE.
I had a variation of that dream last month.
My version of that dream is I can’t understand the instruments I’m looking at and / or the controls don’t work, either as an automation engineer or pilot.
Either the plant is about to explode or I’m auguring in. I wake up in a panic and a cold sweat.
This somehow kept happening to me in middle school. I’d somehow miss out that a project was assigned and wouldn’t know about it until the day before it was due.
BA and MBA – still have the dream – it’s my second worst recurring dream.
#1 is my M16 jamming in a firefight.
Heh, I can honestly say that I have never had that dream to my recollection…
Of course, I barely cared about school when I was there, so why would I care about it now? :)
+1 on Joe. 32 years, and I’m STILL having that dream. At least I no longer have the dream where I’m walking down the school halls naked.
Nail on the head!! Funny thing – never have the dream while I’m on vacation, rather only when I’m stressed….
I’ve got a BS in Chem, MS in Chem, and a MS in Math and it was wicked… Ugh. When some ‘nam vet mentions his bad dreams, at least I can understand the mechanism…
I remember having moments like that while I was awake. I’d be in my doorm or apartment and get the feeling that I was missing a class. The only way to get rid of that feeling was to dig up the class schedule for that semester and verify that I did not have any classes at that time. Must be memories from schedules of previous semesters.