People In My Grad Program are F'ing Loons, Pt II

[MrMatt]

I posted here recently about some lunatics in my grad program talking about me hitting on girls in my program, saying I was already married or had a gf, and other nonsense. This has only gotten worse, ironically even as I've pretty much stopped talking to 95% of the people in the program.

Well, thursday evening I had another great exchange with a classmate. This girl in my class is doing her finals, and her laptop shits out on her. Corruption in some system file in XP. I offer to fix it for her (i know, I know. But we have finals due in a little over a week and that really does suck). She says 'great'. We have this exchange:

Her: Great, when can you do it?
Me: Well I work tomorrow, saturday & sunday. Sunday afternoon I could help though.
Her: Ugh, you can't do it tomorrow? Do you work all day, like noon to midnight?
Me: No I work 2-10.
Her: Do you roll out of bed at 1:59 and go to work?
Me: No, I get up at 9, eat breakfast, go to the gym, have a steak or something, then go to work.
Her: *walking away from me* this is RETARDED. I do not want to hear about your eating habits.
Me: Whargarbl.

So later I start getting text messages from her, about when I'm going to fix it for her, and what is wrong with me for not wanting to. Seriously. She walks away mid conversation, calls me a retard, and still expects me to help her the next day. I send a reply to her, along the lines of: "Being a bitch may help you fit in at BC but it gets you nowhere with me. Have fun at Best Buy. Try calling them retards, I heard that makes the Geek Squad work faster". Seriously though, what the FUCK is wrong with people in this program?? This girl is 24 years old and still acting like an entitled bitch.

 

[darkxshade]

This spot reserved... this might get good later

 

[darkswordsman17]

What school are you at?

You both sound like retards. I don't know why you would say anything more than you will be busy and can't work on it until when you said. The details don't matter, and I have no clue why you would get specific about eating (not gross, just pointless and stupid).

Calling her a bitch is pretty excessive. Its the end of the semester, she'll need her computer for school, and you offered to fix it for her so of course she's going to bug you about fixing it. Was what she said really bad enough that you aren't willing to still help her? If it is, then wow, you're as much of a prima donna. She didn't even call you a retard, just the fact that you decided to tell her the full details of why you couldn't fix it.

 

[jjzelinski]

c'est la vie

 

[Crusty]

Perhaps once she realized you were just hitting on her she had no interest and left.

 

[MrMatt]

What school are you at?

You both sound like retards. I don't know why you would say anything more than you will be busy and can't work on it until when you said. The details don't matter, and I have no clue why you would get specific about eating (not gross, just pointless and stupid).

I was somewhat friendly with this girl. It's not like I'm telling a stranger. But yeah, somewhat pointless. I'm just shocked by her reaction

edit: This is at BC

 

[RESmonkey]

what school/program?

 

[HannibalX]

If she's too stupid to see an opportunity and take it then she deserves to lose it.

It was nice of you to offer though.

 

[MrMatt]

If she's too stupid to see an opportunity and take it then she deserves to lose it.

It was nice of you to offer though.

That's what I didn't get, I was doing something that would help her recover her finals she had already finished, SAVE her a couple hundred bucks, AND I wasn't asking for anything in return (ITB, Pics, etc.)

 

[CycloWizard]

News flash: people in grad school all have some degree of psychological issues. Otherwise, we would have joined the real world, made real money, and had real jobs instead of pissing away our most creative years as slaves for grumpy old men in a lab.

 

[HannibalX]

So, people should wait until they're 60 and millionaires before going to say, med school? Got it.

 

[Hacp]

Pics of this female before we can make a decision.

 

[Geekbabe]

I posted here recently about some lunatics in my grad program talking about me hitting on girls in my program, saying I was already married or had a gf, and other nonsense. This has only gotten worse, ironically even as I've pretty much stopped talking to 95% of the people in the program.

Well, thursday evening I had another great exchange with a classmate. This girl in my class is doing her finals, and her laptop shits out on her. Corruption in some system file in XP. I offer to fix it for her (i know, I know. But we have finals due in a little over a week and that really does suck). She says 'great'. We have this exchange:

Her: Great, when can you do it?
Me: Well I work tomorrow, saturday & sunday. Sunday afternoon I could help though.
Her: Ugh, you can't do it tomorrow? Do you work all day, like noon to midnight?
Me: No I work 2-10.
Her: Do you roll out of bed at 1:59 and go to work?
Me: No, I get up at 9, eat breakfast, go to the gym, have a steak or something, then go to work.
Her: *walking away from me* this is RETARDED. I do not want to hear about your eating habits.
Me: Whargarbl.

So later I start getting text messages from her, about when I'm going to fix it for her, and what is wrong with me for not wanting to. Seriously. She walks away mid conversation, calls me a retard, and still expects me to help her the next day. I send a reply to her, along the lines of: "Being a bitch may help you fit in at BC but it gets you nowhere with me. Have fun at Best Buy. Try calling them retards, I heard that makes the Geek Squad work faster". Seriously though, what the FUCK is wrong with people in this program?? This girl is 24 years old and still acting like an entitled bitch.

Hmmm.. she's doing finals, Christmas is less than 2 weeks away and her computer isn't working.. I can totally get why she wouldn't want to wait 3 days before even attempting to get the computer fixed, just telling her that there was no way you could fit it into your schedule any sooner would probably have handled things and she'd have been off to seek other solutions.

 

[CycloWizard]

So, people should wait until they're 60 and millionaires before going to say, med school? Got it.

Med school != grad school. Med school is easy, has a good return on investment, and doesn't require a dissertation. Thus, one could conceivably make it through med school with some degree of sanity intact. Merely entering a PhD program, however, earns you a certificate of insanity.

 

[Heller]

tell her to bring you the quote for geeksquad cut it in half and make her realize your saving her money, then fix it get her work back and hit that shit amen.

 

[HannibalX]

Med school != grad school. Med school is easy, has a good return on investment, and doesn't require a dissertation. Thus, one could conceivably make it through med school with some degree of sanity intact. Merely entering a PhD program, however, earns you a certificate of insanity.

The principle is the same. You go four years and then go some more. You still haven't "joined the real world" as you put it.

 

[CycloWizard]

The principle is the same. You go four years and then go some more. You still haven't "joined the real world" as you put it.

But med school has a known, finite duration, prestige after the finish, and a guaranteed good income. This makes putting off joining the real world a somewhat sane decision in this case. A PhD program will last anywhere from 4-10 years, depending on a lot of factors beyond your control, will not guarantee you a job at the end, and will usually only get you a salary equivalent to what you would have made with a bachelors degree in the same field (with some exceptions). That, and no one considers you a "real doctor."

 

[dainthomas]

But med school has a known, finite duration, prestige after the finish, and a guaranteed good income. This makes putting off joining the real world a somewhat sane decision in this case. A PhD program will last anywhere from 4-10 years, depending on a lot of factors beyond your control, will not guarantee you a job at the end, and will usually only get you a salary equivalent to what you would have made with a bachelors degree in the same field (with some exceptions). That, and no one considers you a "real doctor."

I always thought it was sad when profs with PhDs would force students to call them "Doctor".

And everyone at BC is an entitled trust-fund brat so the chick's reaction should be no shock.

 

[lxskllr]

Hmmm.. she's doing finals, Christmas is less than 2 weeks away and her computer isn't working.. I can totally get why she wouldn't want to wait 3 days before even attempting to get the computer fixed, just telling her that there was no way you could fit it into your schedule any sooner would probably have handled things and she'd have been off to seek other solutions.

Take it to BestBuy and see how quickly they get to it. The proper thing to do is accept Sunday as the fix date, or say no thanks, I'll get it fixed earlier(good luck). Questioning the OP on his schedule, with the implied whining is inappropriate.

 

[CycloWizard]

I always thought it was sad when profs with PhDs would force students to call them "Doctor".

And everyone at BC is an entitled trust-fund brat so the chick's reaction should be no shock.

Why? Technically, a PhD is the real doctor, since he has defended a dissertation. Only in recent history have MD's taken the title due to good marketing by the AMA. The more appropriate title is "physician."

 

[clamum]

What school is "BC"?

 

[PlasmaBomb]

I always thought it was sad when profs with PhDs would force students to call them "Doctor".

And everyone at BC is an entitled trust-fund brat so the chick's reaction should be no shock.

Why? Technically, a PhD is the real doctor, since he has defended a dissertation. Only in recent history have MD's taken the title due to good marketing by the AMA. The more appropriate title is "physician."

Yup

It is derived from Latin - philosophiæ doctor, meaning "teacher of philosophy".

Medical "doctors" are really medical practitioners, or physicians.

 

[neutralizer]

What school is "BC"?

Seeing how he's in Boston, I would guess Boston College.

 

[dainthomas]

Why? Technically, a PhD is the real doctor, since he has defended a dissertation. Only in recent history have MD's taken the title due to good marketing by the AMA. The more appropriate title is "physician."

It always struck me as more of an insecurity thing. If I ever get my PhD, I'm certainly not going to make people call me "doctor".

 

[TecHNooB]

Med school != grad school. Med school is easy, has a good return on investment, and doesn't require a dissertation. Thus, one could conceivably make it through med school with some degree of sanity intact. Merely entering a PhD program, however, earns you a certificate of insanity.

A friend of mine already plans on doing a triple PhD. Talk about being really out of his mind.