<p>It just goes to show that a lot of people in selective colleges are actually pretty dumb. This thread is for fun, not to make nasty comments, so keep it friendly. :)</p>
<p>Random girl in hallway: "Hey, what floor is room 511 on?" </p>
<p>Guy in Lit class: "They were all being racist against Raskolnikov!" (about crime and punishment)
Professor: "...they're all Russian..."
Guy: "Yeah, but they're racist!"</p>
<p>Me: "Can you pass me a beaker? I need to pour 70mL of HCl"
Chem partner: <em>hands me tiny 30mL beaker</em>
Me: "No, a bigger one, we need 70mL of the acid..."
Partner: "Just use this one, it's clean and I don't feel like washing the bigger ones."</p>
<p>Girl in gen ed class: In nations like the UN, citizens resolve conflicts peacefully. But in America, we...."</p>
<p>Yeah. A lot of college kids are amazingly stupid. They were just brought up to regurgitate information and praised on moral equivalency instead of rhetoric or academic proficiency. So a lot of kids who have smart-looking line scores couldn’t hold an intelligent conversation about anything, but give them a textbook, a redbull, and some questions, and they’ll find the answers.</p>
<p>I honestly think the vast majority of college-aged kids are uninteresting, unoriginal, and immature - especially girls, but that is another thread entirely - and mostly don’t even care how idiotic they may sound in a class, because, well, class is for losers. A personal favorite of mine, from a high school senior girl:</p>
<p>“Who, like, cares if there are land mines in Canada-”</p>
<p>“- You mean Cambodia?”</p>
<p>[pause, decides if she means Canada, our northern, western, civilized neighbor , or Cambodia, a third world country invaded by the USA during the Vietnam War and littered with landmines and unexploded ordnance…]</p>
<p>“Uh, no… well, probably both. Land mines anywhere are bad. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t just walk around them.”</p>
<p>I said keep it friendly, not make sexist comments you dick. </p>
<p>But that cambodia comment was funny, i’ll give ya that. it reminds me of this girl in high school who thought Austria = Australia! She goes to Vassar now.</p>
<p>Could care less. It’s my conclusion based on all of the interactions I have had in my life. It is a nasty generalization, yes, but kind of like every stereotype, there is a kernal of truth in there. It’s kind of why I always liked older women.</p>
<p>“Me: “Can you pass me a beaker? I need to pour 70mL of HCl”
Chem partner: <em>hands me tiny 30mL beaker</em>
Me: “No, a bigger one, we need 70mL of the acid…”
Partner: “Just use this one, it’s clean and I don’t feel like washing the bigger ones.””</p>
<p>is this showing your stupidity or your partner’s? note: 30+30+10 = 70 …</p>
<p>^ Lol I’m not sure if you’re kidding or not? You can’t use a 30ml beaker to hold 70ml of liquid, because 70 > 30. And obviously all the liquid has to go in the same beaker, unless you’re planning to spend hours heating several little ones one by one on a bunsen burner…that would be the equivalent of baking cookies by putting them in the oven one at a time…</p>
I have a vagina. I have never watched MTV. You’re a sexist person who must not get out much. </p>
<p>Not really say, but occurred (it still makes me laugh).
I was riding the bus and this guy sat down next to me. Big, tough, football player looking guy. His iPod was loud enough so that I could hear it. Songs? First one was “Once Upon a December” from Anastasia. The next was “My Reflection” from Mulan.</p>
<p>I’m a girl and I feel your pain. But not just with girls but with people in general; I would like to have thought-provoking conversations with my friends, but yeah girls are worse because they care about stupid insignificant things and ask me if their hair looks okay. lol if only you would have known me and tried having a conversation and maybe your thoughts wouldn’t be so biased. It’s like I feel bad (slightly offended, but not really) that you feel that way, cause I’m not like that, but at the same time I know exactly where you’re coming from. </p>
<p>And if I am uneducated about things I will try to learn from the person who knows about them; that’s why I love listening to the two guys go on and on in my politics class, I find learning fascinating really.</p>
<p>Akman: I don’t know why this is confusing so many people. I’ll explain it slowly. We were in chem lab doing an experiment. We looked at the lab manual, and step #1 said: Heat 70mL of HCl on the bunsen burner. As I picked up the big HCL container, I asked her to pass me a beaker. She supplied a beaker that was far too small to hold the required amount. I explained it was too small, and she still didn’t get it. </p>
<p>LOL I’m sorry, i shouldn’t have started this thread. I was hoping for funny/dumb comments, not a boring backstory for every stupid thing. I can tell this is going to dissolve into people being really confused or arguing about trivial things on the internet. </p>
<p>Manhattan - you’re right, we’re all entitled to generalizations.</p>
<p>Thank you. It seems that everyone else on this forum gets so offended when they hear things they don’t like that are clearly true. They also don’t understand the word “Generalization”, which means USUALLY, or MOST OF THE SUBJECT; obviously there are girls that I have met that have been interesting, but they are in the minority. Most consume themselves with nonsensical childish drama and pop culture.</p>
<ul>
<li>Isn’t Belgium in Germany? (When I tell people I’m Belgian)</li>
<li>Don’t people in Bahrain speak Chinese? (when talking to one of my friends from bahrain)</li>
<li>What’s a druid? (when talking about old people with white hair who grow beards in class)</li>
<li>There’s a sentence on the board ‘‘Following this list will make you happier and safer.’’ The teacher asks us to add to the list, someone puts his hand up and says ‘‘Following this list will make your life happy and safe.’’ The teacher asks ‘‘OK, how did you add anything to the list?’’ Student says, ‘‘I dunno, I just made the sentence a bit longer’’</li>
<li>So many times in class, especially humanities, a teacher will ask, so what did you think of the article, how could you have made it better. A student will say, ‘‘It’s really boring so they should just like… cut it in half and get rid of some of the useless stuff.’’ The teacher will say ‘‘OK… what’s the useless stuff?’’ to which the student will reply, ‘‘I dunno, the article just seemed really boring so there had to be some useless stuff in that.’’</li>
<li>What’s a penguin???</li>
<li>‘‘OMG, today it’s 03/02/01, that’s so cool!’’, when talking about the date, it was the 2nd of march 2010</li>
</ul>
<p>lots of others that I can’t think of off the top of my head</p>