Having just finished a set of exams I am currently enjoying the splendours of study freedom. Free from the monotonous drone of a lecturer who uses powerpoint slides to fill the void that is his personality, free from hours spend copying and pasting useless information off Google to compose an essay full of fake curiosity and argument.
But free most of all, from those horrid little people who pretend not to work. The people who pretend they are constantly out drinking when really every night they shut themselves up in a library hovel and learn the entire Greek lexicon off by heart before a Classics exam, “Oh no, I’ve hardly done anything, no no”. They‘re the same annoying people who pretend to be shocked at their results “Complete fluke, I got 98%. Can’t believe it”. These people should be rounded up and slapped.
You’re a geek. Get over it. Stop repressing your desires. Announce to the world that you love swotting up, itemising every DVD in your collection in a separate folder and storing them alphabetically. All of us tell a white lie now and again, but pretending you’ve never touched a single Shakespeare play and then getting top of the year in English is like the Pope announcing he’s pregnant.
To be fair, the only thing worse are the pretentious twits who put up their hand in lectures. This is normally to make an unimpressive statement instead of asking a question. I presume it's an attempt to display their intellectual prowess but usually it just makes me want to staple the lecture notes to their head.
Unfortunately it seems a paradox of life that the people who pretend to be stupid are actually rather intelligent and the ones who pretend to be intelligent are really rather stupid.
Alexa
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