I don't think it's a straw man, because then after the exam you have to take new classes. College simply moves too fast to retain everything you've learned. I

I don't think it's a straw man, because then after the exam you have to take new classes. College simply moves too fast to retain everything you've learned. I can't seem to add more than 20-30 cards a day in my Anki deck, or my review load gets bigger and bigger. If college worked more like a semester of classes, then a semester off to focus on retention and shrink the deck load, maybe that would work.