{"id":2451,"date":"2006-10-26T05:46:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2006\/10\/26\/use-for-beer-dealing-with-the-stupid-classmates\/"},"modified":"2006-10-26T05:46:10","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T13:46:10","slug":"use-for-beer-dealing-with-the-stupid-classmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2006\/10\/26\/use-for-beer-dealing-with-the-stupid-classmates\/","title":{"rendered":"Use for Beer: Dealing with the Stupid Classmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that the best way to deal with my online discussions in class is to drink a beer while reading the discussion.  This is mostly because I&#8217;ve found the quality of writing and thought on the discussion boards is so fucking poor much of the time, to even things up I&#8217;d have to have three or four beers.  So one just sort of takes the edge off the differential.  <\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know that is condescending and rude.  But, it is justified.  So, I&#8217;ll give you an example to illustrate my point.  This is from my 300-level social psychology course:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Subject:<\/b> self-esteem<\/p>\n<p>When I was younger I had really low self-esteem. I had a small chest and a big gap in my teeth. I looked like a little boy when I was actually a 13 yr old girl. I got braces and went from being called Gap to metal mouth. A step up but it still kept me down ( I never smiled or talked much)  and I still looked like a boy. When I was a freshman in high school I finally got a girlish figure but that just made things worse I looked like a girl and that just caused other problems. I didnt really have a great self-esteem  until I moved here to Ohio and made friends with a girl who was a junior at the time and played water polo. By getting me involved in sports and also me getting my braces off I got a big self-esteem boost and felt like I was more than a girl or a look I was a person who had feelings and wasnt going to put up with people putting me or anyone else down. Just as an example my senior year in high school I was the only senior on the water polo team and there were five juniors so when I got hurt and was out for the season they took over. One of them got onto a power trip and started telling the younger teammates that they were stupid and worthless players not deserving to play on this team. Well I was at that practice and she didnt say anything like that ever again because I told her that she had no right to put people down like that and she  had no reason to critisize people just because she wasnt happy. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Just because someone treats you badly doesnt mean you can take it out on others because that jut causes a big cycle of low self-esteem and anger and saddness.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, that passes for 300 level college discussion in Kentucky.  Now do you understand why I got the hell out of there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that the best way to deal with my online discussions in class is to drink a beer while reading the discussion. This is mostly because I&#8217;ve found the quality of writing and thought on the discussion boards is so fucking poor much of the time, to even things up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}