bhanson
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I'm starting a professional program in January and I went in the other day to hand in the last of my paperwork. There happened to be a few people waiting to see the same person, all entering the same class as me. The three people standing there are in no apparent order, but one could assume that they have a mental line of who was there first.
I'm standing there and I ask if they're all waiting to see this person and they say yes. Then I ask if they're all entering the same program on the day or night rotation. They reply very mechanically and then don't say anything further. They just stand there with a stoic personality hardly even flinching. Yeah, I realize I don't know these people and they do not know me, but we're going to be spending the next 2 years together through the same hell. Also, we're in a SOCIAL field that deals with people on a daily basis. A requisite for succeeding in this field is being sociable, approachable, compassionate, caring, and extroverted.
Another person walks up and asks if we're all waiting to see the same person. The classmate standing next to me points in the opposite direction and spouts off, "The line is THAT way" in the most anal anti-social way possible. As if we were going to cut in front of her because we happened to be standing in a certain place.
It's kind of the cutthroat, pretentious behavior you would expect in a top-tier medical or law program, but at a community college, lol? How can you be that socially disconnected? These are the people that are going to incessantly ask the professors "Is this going to be on the test?" over and over until they blow up. They're going to sit in the front of the class and make sure everyone knows that they got a 97 on the last exam. They will form cliques with people as douchy as they are and immaturely make fun of classmates if they ever fail at anything. This stereotype is well defined.
These people are annoying, so I think I am going to make it my personal goal do the one thing that annoys them to no end--scoring higher than them on exams. So when they announce during class that they got a 97 and ask everyone what they got (fully expecting lower answers), I can say "Uh... I got a 100." And of course their response will not be "congratulations," but rather something like "Oh, well I didn't study anyway."
Although it's immature, my goal was going to be to score as perfect as possible on every exam anyway. For those that have been there, do you have any creative ideas on how to deal with these annoying lemmings? I can do the mature thing and ignore them, but I'd rather see them grow up and start acting like adults.
I'm starting a professional program in January and I went in the other day to hand in the last of my paperwork. There happened to be a few people waiting to see the same person, all entering the same class as me. The three people standing there are in no apparent order, but one could assume that they have a mental line of who was there first.
I'm standing there and I ask if they're all waiting to see this person and they say yes. Then I ask if they're all entering the same program on the day or night rotation. They reply very mechanically and then don't say anything further. They just stand there with a stoic personality hardly even flinching. Yeah, I realize I don't know these people and they do not know me, but we're going to be spending the next 2 years together through the same hell. Also, we're in a SOCIAL field that deals with people on a daily basis. A requisite for succeeding in this field is being sociable, approachable, compassionate, caring, and extroverted.
Another person walks up and asks if we're all waiting to see the same person. The classmate standing next to me points in the opposite direction and spouts off, "The line is THAT way" in the most anal anti-social way possible. As if we were going to cut in front of her because we happened to be standing in a certain place.
It's kind of the cutthroat, pretentious behavior you would expect in a top-tier medical or law program, but at a community college, lol? How can you be that socially disconnected? These are the people that are going to incessantly ask the professors "Is this going to be on the test?" over and over until they blow up. They're going to sit in the front of the class and make sure everyone knows that they got a 97 on the last exam. They will form cliques with people as douchy as they are and immaturely make fun of classmates if they ever fail at anything. This stereotype is well defined.
These people are annoying, so I think I am going to make it my personal goal do the one thing that annoys them to no end--scoring higher than them on exams. So when they announce during class that they got a 97 and ask everyone what they got (fully expecting lower answers), I can say "Uh... I got a 100." And of course their response will not be "congratulations," but rather something like "Oh, well I didn't study anyway."
Although it's immature, my goal was going to be to score as perfect as possible on every exam anyway. For those that have been there, do you have any creative ideas on how to deal with these annoying lemmings? I can do the mature thing and ignore them, but I'd rather see them grow up and start acting like adults.
