I don't mean this as a dig on anyone who happens to be in this particular age-group; I understand that it's a broad generalization but it's basically what I find myself encountering at school. Maybe it's because I'm getting into my 30s but I'm starting to become increasingly annoyed at people that are younger than 23. The reason that I'm saying this is because there are two guys that are in the 20-22 age group in my Project Management class; I've had classes with these two dipshits before and frankly, I'm not all that impressed by either one of themthey both seem to have an over-inflated notion of their own importance. Anyway, my annoyance with these two idiots stem from the obligatory first-day-of-class introduction. This time, it was three truths/one lie. One of my truths was that I worked as a janitor in a hospital. No big dealit was a job with it's ups and downs but a pretty interesting job nonetheless. Well, about half-an-hour later down the line of introductions, one of those little dickless cuntwipes made a really smartass remark about being a janitor in a hospitalunfortunately, I only heard the words "hospital janitor" from the one (mind you, they're on the opposite side of the room) and an "oooooooooooooooohhhh" in that an-insult-has-been delivered tone from his buddy. Its really too bad that I didn't hear the whole thing because I would have called them both on it. I mean, who the fuck are you to make remarks about a person you barely know? What the fuck? That is so fucking high school that it just boggles my mind. You know, more and more I find myself really anxious for graduation. Just some of the immaturity I've encountered from any number of the student body during my three/four years at Ai really just gets on my nerves. Yeah, well fuck you. Just because your parents are paying for your education doesn't mean you have the right to go out of your way to be obnoxious to your fellow students. Or better yet, why don't you fucking go to MCAD; where that kind of asshattery is tolerated and accepted? Fuck you; fuck off and die already.
Goddamned, snot-nosed kids.
Personally, my four years at Ai Minnesota have been pretty good but increasingly, the behavior of some of the students really makes me cringe and wish fervently for graduation. Apparently, I wasn't missing much in my six-month absence from ground classes.
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Still, making comments like that on a college campus is ridiculous. I've seen the same sort of thing on a lot of jobs where some brat who thinks he's on the fast track to Myspace Music fame or a science degree doesn't even try to hide his feelings of superiority. And don't get me started on MCAD...
Luckily, the GenXers are starting to pick up the reins of the world without anybody noticing and there's not much love lost for the hippy bullshit that the Baby Boomers or Gen Y have been sucking out of society's tit for so long. By the time those boys you were talking about are out of school, they'll be spending the next ten years as barristas wondering how some 'lowly janitor' managed to get a decent position. Not like there's a hell of a lot of jobs floating around, but they'll go to us over some self-entitled douchebag.
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I suspect that's the general climate of almost any campus where you have tweenie twits just out of high-school. Most of the older people just ignore them and honestly, I'm taking myself into the realm of the older students anyway. I was in a transition-phase when I started back in '06 so I generally hung out with people who were a few years younger than myself. Now that I'm in my 30s and I've acknowledged the fact that I have changed significantly, some of the shit I would have just ignored...now just gets on my nerves and perhaps because I know what it's like to work in a hostile environment, I'm not too keen on some shit-head thinking it's cute to make jokes about other people to try and humiliate them for no reason than their own amusement.
Frankly, I'm going to take secret pleasure in the fact that neither of those two douche-bags will probably be able to find a job even if the economy were good. That's the problem with the "cool" degree programs at Ai like Animation and VFX; they're less likely to have jobs available for them when they graduate whereas those of us who are in Interactive Media Design are likely to have jobs before we graduate
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