Third year. Get good grades. Understand most stuff. Thing is, I don't really retain much of the information. There is just always so much new shit to learn, by the time I finish a term I forgot a majority of the stuff I learned from the term before.

I'm a visual thinker. I want to get into design work after graduating focusing on the knife industry in Oregon. Besides Solidworks, FEA, Materials, Manufacturing and Machine Design, what course material should I brush up on before trying to enter the work force? I want to know it all of the top of my head, but logistically I'm just not autistic enough to remember everything.

Can anyone with mechanical design experience give me a top 10 list of courses to keep sharp on?