So you've got a test coming up, and your professor says, "You may write anything you want on 1 index card and use it on the test."

Here are some tips on how to maximize the bytes per index card ratio...

• Use .03mm tip pens. You can find them at Art supply stores. And then practice by writing on rice grains. You'll probably want to invest in a magnifying glass.
• Index cards are thick. Get a very sharp razor and "split" the corner into its layers. peel the index card apart so that you now have double the writing surface.
• Fill up the entire index card with red ink. Then write over it with blue ink. Wear red/blue 3-D glasses and depending on what you want to read, close the corresponding eye.
• They do make 5" x 8" "index cards", you know. Did your teacher specify?
• On the same note, you could get a large sheet of poster board paper and draft the pink and blue lines on it.
• Learn and write in Traditional Chinese.
• Does it have to be handwritten? If not, use Flyspeck 3. Bonus points if you combine this with the 3D glasses trick above. You might want to invest in a microscope, too.
• Before you print your notecard pipe it through gzip, then learn to decode gzipped text in your head.
• Use a micro-black hole to warp spacetime in and around your card to make it much bigger. Wear a lead cup though, you know, Hawking Radiation, dangerous stuff...
• Manipulate the fibers to grow bioelectronic features into your notecard. Suggested features are a touch-sensitive LCD and a Large Flash Drive.
• And the finale: how to take 1 BILLION index cards into a test and it still technically counts as one. Consider 1 index card. Build a time machine. Go 30 days into the future and track yourself down. Politely ask yourself to give you the same index card you already have. Now go back to the present. You ow have two cards that are still technically the same card. You know who also has two cards that are still technically one? Yourself 29 days from now! Go forward. Fetch. Go back. You now have 4 cards. By doing this 30 times you will have 1,073,741,824 index cards that are still technically "one" index card. Only problem is if you write on it, then you'll have 1 billion cards that say the same thing. Just make sure you write in pencil, and each time you take a card from your future self, you take an eraser too.

This makes me anxious to take a TEST?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!

I've only ever had one teacher let us use notes like that on a test, and I really didn't need it, unfortunately.

this will be noted. very. noted.

*copies entire science textbook on one notecard*

Im going to try that 3d glasses one for my science final, she let's us take two pages of notes with us...

The problem is, when you write something down, you usually know it. The things you did not write down however...

Wouldn't it still be just a multitude of the same index card? Even if it's the exact same index card, there's still more than one index card.

If it's still the SAME EXACT INDEX CARD, no, it wouldn't be more than one index card. You have a much greater writing area, but the card is still technically the card.

you would need to bring the other index cards forward in time to so before the last time you would have the cards for the 30th day and the 29th etc., etc.

If you have a time machine why not just write down... the answers

That would be cheating

My teacher specified about the size of the card, but she didn't say anything about 3D glasses. :P

Post by lucb1e on 11 Ineo 2:5 - 4.46.39
The problem is, when you write something down, you usually know it. The things you did not write down however...


When you do a note card. Use it for things like formulas or important lists. Do this the night before, as you revise. Whatever you don't know or only need the the little jolt for, put it on the card.