After the new year students are drilled with practice tests.
But while drilling might not look pretty — students doing drills don't tend terrariums or don wigs to re-enact the Constitutional Convention — might it nonetheless be a useful way for some students to learn some things?
An enthusiastic supporter of the Union cause in the war, Clark took part in student military drill instruction at Amherst College and successfully recruited a number of students.
On the track, which is ringed by tires in case anyone loses control, Mr. Feldaverd leads his students through drills meant to simulate the chaos of the roads.
Take, for example, the odd, even comical recurring sight of battle-ready camouflaged Reserve Officers Training Corpsstudentsts doing drills and lobbing fake grenades on campus.
Since it established its main campus here in 1972, the 66-year-old institute has been considered the West Point of culinary schools: a demanding institution where students are drilled in teamwork and skills, and taught to submit to authority.
Up against candidates from high-achieving state schools, grammar schools, academies and private schools where students are drilled in delivering what the examiner wants in meticulously planned exam answers, candidates from other schools where this useful information isn't part of the curriculum can only prepare to be further disadvantaged.
In a class called Product Knowledge, a freshman basic in which students are drilled on the differences between daikon and lobok radishes, John Zearfoss recently managed to connect his lesson to the death of Socrates from hemlock and to the book he is writing about wild vegetables.
In episode three of VICE, Thomas Morton meets a gun-crazy pastor who teaches his young students gun drills and tactics to disarm attackers, and Shane Smith travels to Fallujah, Iraq, where a rise in birth defects has been linked to the American military's suspected use of depleted-uranium munitions during the war.
From the first day in the cadaver room and on, every medical student is drilled with this truism: "Medicine is both an art and a science".
