NPR : Lack of Short-Term Memory Doesn't Stop New Grad

I don't listen to much NPR, but I happened to hear this story. Just amazing and makes me feel like I should be working a lot harder and doing more with my decent memory.

All Things Considered, May 25, 2007 · Andrew Engel just graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County with a bachelor's degree in health administration — despite having no short-term memory. Engel learned he had a brain tumor in 1995, when he was starting his freshman year in college.

Engel recovered from the tumor, but he was left with no short-term memory. Told to forget about going to college, Engel instead pressed a team of doctors at Johns Hopkins to devise ways for him to learn.

Engel tells NPR's Robert Siegel that with the team, he found a way to study that allows new information to be stored in a healthy part of his brain that is associated with long-term memory.