Friday, April 21, 2006

if you can't say anything nice, then bash thoroughly

you'd think that when people sell thongs online, they would ship it in something more subtle, but no.



no one's gonna think it's a slice of pizza. idiots.

anyway, i got your thongs. see you in july. you owe me one MORE, considering how many you've owed me in the past. i really need to keep tabs of all these owing business.

did i ever mention how i despise my fellow physics majors? not all, but most. so if you're one of my fellow physics majors reading this, then you might want to stop reading if you can't handle the truth. there is a reason i don't hang out or become close friends with a lot of them, and this is the reason why.

physics majors are condescending bastards who only care about themselves and only do things that are beneficial to them. again, not all, but most of them are like that.

it is completely and entirely understandable that human beings have egos and are obliged to feed them. don't deny it. we all do this. if you have never done this, consciously or unconsciously, chances are by now you've probably attempted many suicides because you feel worthless. human beings are negative people; they need to find something positive around them that can bring them out of the negative state so they can go on with their lives. if you stick around the negative side of the axis, you'll get sucked in even more and end up in a state of depression. unfortunately, this is also the case with the positive side; you'll get sucked in even more and end up in a state of arrogance.

how do human beings feed their ego? by looking down on people who are not as good as they are in a certain aspect of life. this is perfectly fine. it is perfectly fine to look at someone else and think "ah, i'm better than him." it is perfectly fine, UP TO A POINT. there is a fine line between feeding your ego ENOUGH to just be able to get yourself out of the negative state and feeding your ego TOO MUCH. if you don't feed your ego, ever, you will feel worthless and depressed, but feeding it too much brings about arrogance and overconfidence. it's a dangerous game to play. physics people do this thing of feeding their ego enough, but they also get other people feeding their ego as well, and this leads to too much ego-feeding.

when you find out that someone is a physics major, NEVER, EVER say "oh my god, you've got to be really smart!" it's a line that comes up every time, and is probably meant as nothing more than surface compliment, but it FEEDS THAT PERSON'S EGO. you need to stop that. if you have ever taken a physics class and you think your professor or TA is really cocky, then you've seen the result of people telling them how smart they are for ten to twenty years. please. next time you find out about someone being a physics major, instead say, "oh dear, you must be really lazy," because all physics majors are essentially lazy bastards, and they cannot ever deny that. if they try to deny this, remind them of the reason why they never write down the "0" and "infinity" whenever they have a sum from 0 to infinity.

another thing that i despise about most physics people is their attitude towards non-physics people and their unwillingness to help them. they seem to think they're able to do just about everything outside physics, because everyone thinks physics is the hardest subject. after all, if you can do the hardest subject, you can do the easier ones, right? no. if you give a pencil to a physics major, there is a very small chance that he will be able to draw you something that looks like what he attempted to draw. often you will hear a physics TA say "oh, i like teaching this section because they get the stuff really fast." what they're actually saying is "oh, i like teaching this section because they don't waste so much of my time." it is a very sad thing when you have a teacher who likes to help "people who get it fast." the "fast" people aren't the ones who need your help. it's the "slow" ones who need your help. and i find it very unacceptable to call someone "dumb" and "hopeless" just because they are slow. i find it sad that physics is essentially a field where you weed out the slow ones and keep the fast ones, and this arguably because it's easier to teach the fast ones. i find it even more sad that it is the field that i am studying.

i admit, that i am not innocent. i do feel frustrated when helping other people who just don't seem to ever gonna get it, and sometimes i even get angry, but i don't quit and call them dumb and hopeless. there's a poster up in my highschool math classroom, and it says "teachers get paid so little to teach people who are not even willing to learn because they are simply passing down the knowledge that was passed down to them."

there, i said it. there are a lot more to say, but i've ranted enough. of course, the same can be said to everyone in their respective majors and not just physics. in the end, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that the higher up you go in education, the worse your attitude towards the society becomes.

again, i make claim that this is not true for ALL physics majors. some of you have been the greatest, coolest, most supportive people i have ever met in my life, and i am very grateful for that.`

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