A few things on my mind the past week or so:
- Good Student vs. Smart people
- I know a few people personally that do much better in school than me. My sister and my girlfriend jump to mind immediately. While it is extremely hard to motivate myself to do something unless it is incredibly appealing or will have the end result of food, whatever it is will either not be completed or will be completed in the wee hours leading up to the assigned completion time. While I am usually very clutch in these instances and am able to smile smugly while the professor has to comment on how I "have great potential as a writer," after they had spent the previous weeks telling me how I desperately required a tutor or have bad hand writing. However, my girlfriend and my sister rarely have these encounters. They spend time working on their topics, do research, have multiple drafts and don't question the validity of the professor's authority. However, once you leave school and return to reality, they have the collective IQ of a bag of rocks. To demonstrate that point I'll leave a few situations and how they responded:
- My girlfriend on seeing the reflection of her cellphone on the back of her laptop: "OH NO! THE PHONE IS STUCK TO MY LAPTOP!"
- My girlfriend on being lost in the woods of northern New Jersey, minutes from Manhattan: "There was a horn or something! and and and I think it was the bear alarm! TIM I HAVE EMOTIONAL BEAR SYNDROME!"
- My sister on having a good memory: "I have the memory of a dinosaur!"
- My sister on a hamburger last summer: "*mrrggh* Tees are goof boogers
- "My sister on having a bird stuck in the grill of her car: "Yes I'm going to leave the bird in the grill! what if it comes to life and starts pecking me to death like in birds?! I can't handle that right now. I can't handle it. So I'm gonna leave it alone and let it sleep!"
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