People Aren't Smart

So, I was working on my Comparative politics homework and thinking about what I should write about for you lovely people. As I looked at my past grades for the online quizzes and essays, I was instantly reminded how stupid people nowadays are:

Exhibit A: In my comparative politics class, we have weekly online quizzes. Yes, these are taken at your own leisure and on the internet. The program that we use to take the quiz even allows you to select the question text and copy it. So naturally, when I take a comparative politics quiz, I have my good buddy Google open in the next tab. We have 25 minutes for 12 questions. That's more than two minutes per question. We go over the material the class before, for the entire hour and forty-seven minutes. We have articles that he will take questions from, word for word. My average on the quizzes is 11/12, or a 92%. I'm pretty content with this grade, especially since the class average is a 70%. Yes, a C-. That's an 8/12. How you can get four questions wrong when you can use the World Wide Web for EVERY single question completely stumps me. I barely ever do the assigned reading and I still receive at least an A-, if not 100%. It's an ONLINE quiz people, use your resources!

And if you are using your resources and are still getting a 70%, you may want to question the sites you use. www.ponyANDunicorns.blogspot.com/reallyrealinformation is not going to cut it. For obvious reasons.....

Exhibit B: Another example from my comparative politics class: This class is an intensive writing course, so we have to write a short 2-page (Yes, I consider two pages relatively short) essay on a certain topic.

What we are suppose to do: Write a little bit every day, building up to the due date. We have about a week to write these papers.

What I do: Wait until the night before (usually I will close at work), and work on the paper from 11pm-1/2am. Go to bed, hope for the best.

The odds work out in my favor (and I believe I just have God on my side, too). My average grade for the papers are 90%. Considering NO ONE in the class has gotten a 100% and the highest grade he has given out is a 95%, I'm content with that grade. Especially since the class average on the papers is a 65%. It gets even worse when my COLLEGE PROFESSOR in 130 COMPARATIVE POLITICS INTENSIVE WRITING CLASS needs to take a half hour to explain to us the difference between “there”, “their” and “they're”. Or the difference between something being “awry” which by definition means amiss or wrong, and “a rye”, which is a type of bread. REALLY?! A situation can NOT be a loaf of bread, and spelling it like that (in my opinion) makes you look like a fruit. If you don't know how to spell/use a word, the solution is simple! Don't use it.

Or at least look it up on Google for Heaven's sake.

Exhibit C: People assume that just because I sleep in my classes, I'm obviously failing. I especially like to(maybe not necessarily like, but I end up) falling asleep in my Art History, and my Logic class. Art History starts bright and early at eight in the morning! I don't even have to explain myself on that one.... My logic class, I like to use the excuse that, “I know everything and understand it, so it's okay if I fall asleep.” People are stupid for ASSUMING things.

And when a person coddles me and asks me if I need help in the class and “how are you doing? Are you passing? Do you understand the validity equations?” I get a little bit upset. I'm doing great, thanks. And I'm passing with a A, but thanks for your concern! What makes me even more mad about the whole situation is when I find out they are doing worse in the class than I am! I mean, come ON! If you don't know what a certain person is getting in a class, don't assume they are failing. That would be almost as ridiculous as me assuming that those people who are paying attention all the time are passing, which I have found out is NOT true. If you don't know your facts, then don't try to fix something; you just look like a fool when that something turns out not to be broken in the first place, bro.

Exhibit D: Drivers. Woman, Asian, Ginger, Blonde, I don't care. If you are going to floor it and drive like you are right of the Fast and the Furious just to get ahead of me because you know one of our lanes ends, you better go faster than five under speed limit once I'm behind you! In fact, if you were in that of a hurry as soon as the lane was about to end or the light turned green, I would expect you to go at LEAST five over, or else I reserve the right to ride you like a bull at a Spanish festival. Also, they are called turn signals. Oh, and another thing: Swerving for a cute little bunny IS acceptable, but swerving because you are stupid is not. Get off your phone. The “LOL” you were about to send to that cute boy in you calculus class can wait ten minutes until you get to your destination. Chances are you won't end up with him anyway. And sending him an “LOL” is just going to annoy him because after that “LOL” he won't know how to respond.

Exhibit E: When I say, “Sorry, I can't; I have to work,” this is not to be confused with, “Sorry, I'm blowing you off.” Working IS a legitimate excuse and something you can't just get out of, in most cases. When you ask me to do something on a specific day, be prepared for this answer. When I say this answer, don't get all mad at me. I'm WORKING. It's not like I have a choice. I need the money. Don't get mad at me, dude. That would be like me getting mad at you because you can't hang out when you are on your vacation in the Bahamas. It's not like I like working all the time, either. In fact, I greatly dislike it. Bills have to be paid and money has to be made, it's just a fact of life! If you really wanted to hang out with me as bad as you make it seem, you would ask me when I was available and we would see when our schedules match up. And don't EVER ask me to find someone to cover my shift. I'm not getting out of work just because you want to grab a coffee for an hour. It's different if you are planning a trip to Disney World, but other than that, no excuse.

Exhibit F: I like to think of life as a race; People all trying to reach greatness before another. That is very hard to do when people are walking slow in front of me. Life is like a race; in a race, the first lane is left open for people to pass you. So, if you are going to walk slow, in a hallway or on a path, get into lane 2, 3, 4 or 5 and leave some passing room for us fast-walkers out there. If you just mosey on to wherever you go, chances are you are either really laid back or you will end up being late. Being laid back isn't bad, but wouldn't you rather be driven to go to wherever it is you were headed? And being late is a step in the wrong direction on the road to success.

Well, that is all I can think of for you lovely folks tonight. Expect this post to be a continuous project that I go back to in future posts. Are there any things that make you question mankind's intelligence? Post a comment or send me an email with things that make you say, “People are Stupid".

 

 

Oh, and Happy Halloween!

 

K.G. Sunshine