Pretentious Language 101

[aunt_zelda]

We were put into groups during the last part of my morning class today. The other girls in my group spoke so pretentiously I could barely understand what was going on. I had to force myself to contribute ideas to the discussion because I was so busy trying to decipher what they were saying. I felt like I had landed on another planet. What the fuck was that about? I consider myself a smart person, yeah my SAT scores weren't stellar but they weren't lousy, and I read a lot. Today I felt like I was in the wrong place. I wanted to yell "SPEAK PLAIN ENGLISH, IT'S NOT THAT DIFFICULT" while they kept yammering on about how awesome the book we had to read for homework was (it ... wasn't. It kinda sucked. The book was almost as hard to understand as the other girls in my group were.) I'd be afraid that I was out of my depth in the class if it weren't for the rest of the class, which is going awesomely. We've been watching clips of various movies of Hamlet and discussing the symbolism and use of music and lighting and stuff in them. It's WONDERFUL. I've brought up a few things that seemed to please the teacher. The class is understandable during THOSE discussions, so why not during the book-talk?

Also, most of the reading homework I have for the other classes, from the ridiculously-expensive textbooks? HORRIBLE. I paid money for this shit? I am PAYING money to be forced to read this shit? All this is accomplishing is making me have to twitch every few minutes to stay awake, and making me realize what it was like for those kids in elementary school who said they "hated to read." I thought I'd never be able to identify with them, and now I can.

There is good stuff, though. I had my first interview and got the job (HURRAY!) and had another interview today that went pretty well, I guess (yay!) and have been eating better food and better times (woohoo!) and it's been nice and rainy out and I've been hanging out a bit with this insane, hilarious, nice guy who dresses like Matt Smith (I'm not even kidding) and finding the time to write a little fanfic and read some Dresden Files. My Making Monsters class is fan-freaking-tastic and I am so excited for more, even though it's at 8:00 am in the morning, I am PSYCHED for that class. Most of the theater class I'm taking is great, the parts where we've been discussing scenes from Hamlet have been wonderful, the reading and discussion of that ... not so much.

I'll get through this. I may snap in a couple weeks and start shaking people to get the pretentious out of them, but hopefully it won't come to that. 

Comments

[achika-chan.livejournal.com]

The pretentious girls are probably freshman who are nervous and want to seem ~smart~ and ~like college students~. They might loosen up and grow out of it. If not, I'd just roll your eyes at them every time they get too pretentious and I'd keep talking like a normal person. But that's just me. I'm glad you're enjoying your classes.

[etoiledunord.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I hear you on the reading. I never did any of my reading in university. My books were little more than expensive props. Most of the time, I got by fine, but I did pay for it in a couple of my Ed Psych classes. If you can make yourself do the reading, it's probably the best option, but I just couldn't, espcially for my Education courses. It's a habit I'm really going to have to work on for grad school. >.>

[yersi-fanel.livejournal.com]

Surely the pretentious girls will stop their fancy talk later on, maybe they just wanted to look smart (and failed in doing so, as they look pretentious, hehe)

It's great to heard you're enjoying your classes!