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\section{Introduction}
I was a biology major in college (the first time around, that is) and so I had to memorize \textit{lots} of information.
\kdivb{Is it worth it?}{3}
A sidebar debate of the usefulness of memorizing anything.
\kdive{3}
One of the best ways I've found to memorize information is to use flash cards. As I see it, flash cards have three main advantages. First, you have to write this information onto the flash cards, so you have yet another opportunity to review the information. (I tend to learn better by reading and writing than by listening.) Second, because you to fit the information on an index card, you have to edit the information, which is yet another opportunity to process the information. Third, because each bit of information is on a separate card, you can easily sort these cards as you study them, gradually setting aside the cards you know, so that you can focus on the material you still need to learn.
Unfortunately, flash cards are a lot of work to make. (You can buy commercial versions, but they are expensive and may not suit your exact purposes.) Because you have to make them by hand, you're essentially a medieval scribe, copying a text very laboriously by hand. It's not a fun process for most people.\footnote{I will admit to being an exception here.}
Fortunately, \LaTeX{} has a number of packages that make the production of flash cards a fairly simple process.
\section{The FlashCards Package}
\subsection{About the FlashCards Package}
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I re-compiled the project, and indeed, I now had the Ferengi Rules of Acquistion on $4\times6$ index cards! Easy-peasy!
\section{The flacards Package}
\section{The elzcards Package}