<p>I need something to look forward to... because I'm tired of this.</p>
<p>It is less common…but really you can’t ever escape some people being ***holes. Don’t let it bother you because thats really what they want, just ignore them and they will eventually give up.</p>
<p>I doubt it, in college most people are too worried about passing their courses and balancing what little is left of a social life. Not to mention you have the freedom and flexibility in choosing classes, plus your paying for your education so why preoccupy that time harassing someone else?</p>
<p>(p.s. senior in high school, incoming freshmen fall)</p>
<p>Lol…“what little is left of a social life?”</p>
<p>Most people I know have infinitely better social lives in college. More people, more time to hang out, more parties, more fun. </p>
<p>There are a lot of people who will be jerks though, but it’s a lot easier to escape them. Some people grow up, some don’t. It’s generally better though.</p>
<p>Unless you are a jock majoring in Communications, maybe.</p>
<p>If you’re a minority at a racist school, then yeah they do.</p>
<p>Otherwise, people are kind of over it.</p>
<p>What do you mean by “pick on each other”?</p>
<p>If you mean like taunting short people when they walk by, I definitely do that.</p>
<p>^ It’s to make you feel better about yourself about your “shortcoming” in a different sense. 
(hoping you’re a male)</p>
<p>People just being mean, slick comments, laughing, you know what went on in high schools? idk if you’re a girl or not.</p>
<p>I definitely don’t see people getting picked on here. College isn’t like high school.</p>
<p>There’s less “bullying” per se but a lot more backstabbing and drama going on behind people’s backs.</p>
<p>…because there’s no lockers to get stuffed in. ;)</p>
<p>Actually, I’d say there’s really no definitive answer. There are, of course, extreme cases like the sick roommates of the poor gay kid who video-recorded him in bed with his partner and posted the video on Facebook to taunt him (and subsequently caused him to commit suicide). He didn’t get stuffed in a locker, but sadly, he did hang himself “in the closet” once forced to “come out.”</p>
<p>My personal experience has actually been from students and professors who tease me to no end because I bristle at discussions of you-know-what and they tell me I need to “grow up.” I took an English course with a professor who is very friendly and personable and who wrote me a wonderful recommendation letter, but who also teaches Women’s Studies and is fervently feminist and thinks it’s a sickness of patriarchal society that caused her young, intelligent female student to think sex is something infinitely more evil than cancer, war, or a Sarah Palin administration. (In no particular order…although #3 comes close, “doncha know.”)</p>
<p>I also had to take a psychology course with a textbook that has some graphic anatomical drawings, and I was horribly chastised by the psych professor for requesting an alternative assignment because I wasn’t comfortable with the subject matter (I attempted the same thing with my English professor and she was a tad more lenient). I and two other former students of hers recently judged student artwork for a competition. I tried to recuse myself and/or get out of the review team altogether because we had to look at nude paintings, and I won’t allow myself to even glimpse at figure drawings (which is why I spent all of one day as a graphic design major there, because I’d rather draw stick figures than look at dirty pictures all day).</p>
<p>An art history course I took had yet another professor who is herself an artist, has a six-year-old daughter, and also teaches a course in art for elementary school teachers, and quite often has said daughter sit in on her lectures – including the Renaissance and Modern Art classes. I was surprised this woman wasn’t called in by social services for bringing the kid in when Robert Mapplethorpe’s filthy S&M “porn art” was on the PowerPoint slides. She actually paints this stuff herself, and not only that, has the kid there while she’s painting these “figure drawings” and teaches the poor thing about all this smut and filth that she considers “art” but anyone with a brain and no chance of contracting syphilis or herpes would toss in the garbage or call the “freakin’ FCC.”</p>
<p>Some of the student work was going to appear in a collection on the college’s site, as per the decisions by my English professor and the other students who, yup, have “done it” (and are quite some years younger than I am), and think I must be either ■■■■■■■■, an alien, or a victim of child rape because I don’t lower myself to the nonexistent standards of common whores like Beyonce’, Lady Gaga, Madonna and Angelina Jolie. One of these girls and my English professor actually said I was being “judgmental” for describing Jolie as a self-absorbed nymphomaniac. They said she should be applauded for how “confident in her sexuality” she is (which I think of as just a fancy way of saying “she’s a common whore and doesn’t care”). I mentioned my concern for her children, whom she doesn’t appear to care about as much as her public image – some super-duper miracle worker in the most desolate regions of the globe, who in reality is probably going to dump Brad Pitt, marry Bono, and adopt a pair of his $500 shades while sponsoring a Sunglasses Hut to be built in Cambodia. <em>eyeroll</em></p>
<p>Oprah’s last show was on today and I made some comment about Beyonce’ having a neuromuscular disease for how spastic she was on stage, and some other type of mental disorder that would cause her to have poor judgment in what she does and how she comes across to people. I guess most people are stupid and sex-crazed enough not to care, and to support her crappy music that “empowers” young women to do nothing but sleep around and be “bootylicious” at a dance club while picking up a lot more than the D.J. (I believe the initials are V.D.). I’m seriously disappointed and in fact disgusted with Oprah for what she’s started to promote (there was also a clip of that idiotic, vile Dove soap ad with the “real women” in their underwear – whatever happened to “99 44/100% pure”?) Especially being a victim of sexual abuse herself, you think she’d use more discretion and promote a better image. :(</p>
<p>But I digress – although I will be seeing these two girls and my English professor Wednesday for a last conference with the arts & literature club we’re in, before all of us graduate June 4. They’re big fans of “Big O” and I’m sure that even if I don’t bring up the subject, I’ll get lampooned for being critical of women’s “showiness” the way I was when there was a proposal to have a production of the Venereal Monologues on campus. I made a proposal about having an advisory put on the school’s website that cautions students about possible explicit content on certain pages, and another that would require a passage be implemented in course syllabi in which objectionable material might be discussed (funny in this case how “discussed” is a near-homonym for “disgust”). </p>
<p>Faculty are required to include paragraphs about the college’s policies on plagiarism, disability accommodations, tutoring resources…why not a content advisory, a la the movie ratings, or the controversial Tipper Sticker placed on Eminem and Ozzy Osbourne CDs? “Because most people aren’t offended by that” said one girl; “because this isn’t high school and you don’t need a permission slip from your parents” said the other; and “because you can’t fully explore the subject, especially of women’s studies, without at least mentioning women’s sexuality and more likely going in-depth” said my professor (she really must think I’m some sort of Tea Party Nazi because I personally won’t ever want to “fully explore” such things “in depth,” “six feet under,” or at any other level below the chastity belt)!</p>
<p>So you don’t get stuffed in a locker, but I get hung out to dry because I don’t want to air out everyone’s dirty laundry – and am rather Victorian in believing some secrets should remain behind closed doors. (Frankly, Ms. Scarlett, I’ll take an “A,” a grade of 100, and keep my faculties up North, rather than “F” around below the Mason-Dixon to get a very bad “score” of…69.) ;)</p>
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Halfman!</p>
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ThisCouldBeHeavn is a Queen.</p>
<p>Cherry’s post was surreal…</p>
<p>You will always have people that you like and dont like. I have some guys in my fraternity that i hate (but i would punch someone in the nose for talking bad about them.)</p>
<p>All of that being said the cool thing about college is you do not really have the same community attitude that is found in high school. Sure you go to the same class, but after that class is over more than likely you will never see someone again. Unless you live in the dorms you really do not have to talk or pay attention to anyone.</p>
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<p>Somebody can’t tell the difference between “artistic nudity” and “porn.” 
Artistic nudity has been an art form since…forever. </p>
<p>And what an ethnocentric view you have there. Do you also think Asians, especially Japanese people, are “whores” too because they strip themselves naked before going into a hot spring and aren’t afraid to bathe with strangers?</p>
<p>Cherry’s post was entertaining. First time I bothered to read a long post like that on this board. But I’m so hoping that she wasn’t serious.</p>
<p>Really? What the … is your problem with nudity and sex? Not even looking at paintings? wow.</p>
<p>No there really isn’t bullying the same way as in HS, don’t worry its a lot nicer :)</p>
<p>yeah people stop making fun of me when I got into junior year and hasn’t started since then. Or maybe I just stop caring.</p>
<p>funny thing is though, I have professors that make fun of me more then students.</p>