<p>i hate scummy looking cups. you know when you drink water from a glass cup and are eating something oily and then you hold the glass and it looks all slimy? and when you try to wipe it, it becomes all smeared?
i hate people with bad breath, so fowl...
also don't like people who post long, elaborate, detailed descriptions of what they're doing on their away message...
also don't like when people talk really loudly in public intentionally so that they can be overheard by other people
i also don't like spelling mistakes, especially on teacher handouts.</p>
<p>I have to agree with the first post's citation of Jane Eyre.... omg.... how painful.</p>
<p>When it comes to movies, nothing can be worse than the Disney movies with the magic shoes, and the magnetic strip basketball, and the miracle win in the last 3 seconds... urgh</p>
<p>HEY</p>
<p>where would be with out magnetic strips, "There's no place like home" shoe tapping, and the fond memories of the Lion King soundtrack</p>
<p>I have one thing that really makes me mad. When people make a mistake or say something that is incorrect and then they say "Just kidding". And I want to scream "NO YOU WEREN'T KIDDING. YOU ARE HUMAN. YOU MAKE MISTAKES." Some people are so arrogant they can never admit to being wrong. I liked Jane Eyre by the way.</p>
<p>^^^Anger management would help with that...</p>
<p>only cute girls ever do that around me. and for that fact, they are forgiven. yes i'm shallow -- and i can live with that!! haha</p>
<p>I don't like it when peole say "JK" either- but I think it's less an unwillingness to admit to mistakes than an automatic reaction.</p>
<p>I think it's an automatic reaction that springs from someone's inability, conscious or unconscious, to admit that they can make mistakes. They have to be getting it from somewhere, even if they don't mean it. Soap box warning. Teenagers today need to learn how to be more humble and accept responsibility for when they make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes, but trying to cover them over is cowardly.</p>
<p>I cannot bear to be surrounded by people who are intellectually incompetent, ignorant, neglectful of their priorities, and just plain stupid. Yet, I have no choice but to endure being subjected to such an idiot-driven environment everyday. Such morons should not be given the privilege to attend school at all. They only succeed in pulling other students along with them as they approach the horizon of inevitable failure. I cannot believe that my hard-earned tax dollars are being invested in such imbecility. They are only somewhat useful when it comes to doing physical labor, yet they often screw this up, as well.... Well, this is pretty much the main reason for my desire to attend U of C. :-)</p>
<p>haha, I agree. I strongly dislike high school. Everyone's so apathetic. It's like..."DON'T YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY LEARN SOMETHING!?!?!" </p>
<p>"OMFGZZZZ...WAT A NERDZZZ, Y0!!! LETZ GO 2 SK8!!!11!!ONEONE"</p>
<p>!!!oneone!!!eleventyone1111! ;)</p>
<p>"I cannot bear to be surrounded by people who are intellectually incompetent, ignorant, neglectful of their priorities, and just plain stupid. Yet, I have no choice but to endure being subjected to such an idiot-driven environment everyday. Such morons should not be given the privilege to attend school at all. They only succeed in pulling other students along with them as they approach the horizon of inevitable failure. I cannot believe that my hard-earned tax dollars are being invested in such imbecility. They are only somewhat useful when it comes to doing physical labor, yet they often screw this up, as well.... Well, this is pretty much the main reason for my desire to attend U of C. :-)"</p>
<p>That was probably the best post in CC history, and it is the absolute truth about high school</p>
<p>I like my school just fine.</p>
<p>"Such morons should not be given the privilege to attend school at all."</p>
<p>No one has the right to decide who deserves an education. Especially not a bunch of seventeen year olds.</p>
<p>And I still need to figure out how to make the quote box...</p>
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<p>mCsHaDyPL: I agree with you in the sense that being surrounded by such people annoys me to the point where I complain about my class at about every opportunity I have.</p>
<p>At the same time, I'd try not to sound so arrogant.
"I cannot believe that my hard-earned tax dollars are being invested in such imbecility. They are only somewhat useful when it comes to doing physical labor, yet they often screw this up, as well...."</p>
<p>Society needs people like this-- who do not want to invest in intellectual stimulation and activities. We need garbage-men for a functioning society. And: tax dollars are being wasted in far more destructive ways (for example, tax money taken from education and spent on the military-- this makes me want to throw a fit).</p>
<p>That said, I hate being surrounded by unmotivated and unintellegent people as much as you do. They are the ones who will suffer in the end, though. Too bad for them that being cool isn't a possible job to occupy after HS. It is their problem if they want to waste their lives and are not able to rightly prioritize.</p>
<p>Everybody I know says "JK" or "Just kidding" or usually "jaaaaaykaaaaay", but I don't really think that it's people not admitting that they were wrong, they know they were wrong but instead of having to make every single situation all serious "OMG YOURE RIGHT...I was wrong. :-(," they just saw..JK! and laugh it off. They know they made a mistake. It's really...a...non-issue?</p>
<p>People who say "lol" or "jk" in normal conversation. Has our speech decomposed so much that we can even use real words? Same with stupider or stupidest. I also hate people who say nu-cu-lar, like our great president GW Bush.</p>
<p>"I cannot believe that my hard-earned tax dollars are being invested in such imbecility."
---really? you pay taxes?</p>
<p>People have different priorities and aptitudes- just accept it and don't let it get you down.</p>
<p>I might hate myself for having posted this after the fact, but I feel I must:</p>
<p>I agree with almost everything that you all have posted on this thread. In fact, I think that through it we are identifying some of the qualities which have led us to seriously consider UofC as a school for our undergraduate studies - a school which I know several in this post will have the pleasure to attend next year. However, I feel I must caution all of us when we assume that the values we all have believed in are in any way better than the values that some of our colleagues in HS have clung to. </p>
<p>It would not surprise me in the least to learn that everyone who has posted here was always the smartest kid in their class, worked much harder than most of their friends, and made academic excellence a habit. It would also not surprise me to learn that most of us did not go out as much as some of our friends, did not engage in as much "useless" gossip as our peers, and didn't get in trouble as much as they did. </p>
<p>However, we must recognize that they are also looking at us in the same scornful eyes as some people in this post have shown to have. They see students which are "having no fun" and "wasting the best time of their lifes." </p>
<p>All of us must conclude that there is no evidence which suggests that we are more righteous in our lifestyles than they are. What we simply see is that there is a genuine difference in ones beliefs, customs, and priorities. They are not less than we are, no worse off in life, and no dumber that us.</p>
<p>The education that we will receive at UofC is certainly extremely valuable. We will have access to some of the greatest professors of our time, a plethora of research opportunities, and we will be require to exhibit depth of thought in all things we do at the university. I just hope that all of us who attend will do so with a humility which is scarce in "smart people" like us, and that through our years at Chicago we approach every problem cognizant of the fact that we are no better than the kid attending your local community college.</p>