saintalto Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 (edited) I was dosed on seroquel and attending a sort of short welcome meeting for postgrad students. It was supposed to only be 30 minutes max, but there was this lady asking question after question after question. Because of all her goddamn questions, she made it last an hour. All the while I was using every bit of my inner strength to stay awake thanks to seroquel. It was so tiring to fight my eyelids and this fuckwit is just asking away at every pause. I was about to slap her very hard and tell her to get the fuck out of the masters program if she had that many questions about a simple fucking syllabus. Save it for a meeting with your professor. That's what they are for. This is a welcome, we are not here to help you write your whole fucking thesis this afternoon. Fuck. Edited March 4, 2014 by saintalto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamjustme Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 sorry. i found this funny. this was the only time i laughed today. or smiled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintalto Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 sorry. i found this funny. this was the only time i laughed today. or smiled. I find it funny now in retrospect. I am glad you smiled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterJoshua Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I swear there has been one of those people in every fucking class I ever took. It always felt a lot like choosing the wrong line at the supermarket. You're just trapped there hopelessly waiting for the idiot to figure it out and shut the fuck up! I admit, I laughed when I read it too. Just been there so many times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintalto Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 I swear there has been one of those people in every fucking class I ever took. It always felt a lot like choosing the wrong line at the supermarket. You're just trapped there hopelessly waiting for the idiot to figure it out and shut the fuck up! I admit, I laughed when I read it too. Just been there so many times. Yeah, it's one of those things you laugh at the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissaw72 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I swear there has been one of those people in every fucking class I ever took. It always felt a lot like choosing the wrong line at the supermarket. You're just trapped there hopelessly waiting for the idiot to figure it out and shut the fuck up! I admit, I laughed when I read it too. Just been there so many times. ^THIS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hagar Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I haaaate when people do that. Especially when the questions have obvious answers and they are clearly only doing it to make some kind of impression or something because no one can be that stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiaB Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I genuinely don't mean to sound obnoxious, but why you were attending a meeting doped up on seroquel? I've learned from experience that when I can't control the precise timing of something, it's safer to take my seroquel later or afterwards. The shitty nature of meetings - especially academic meetings (I work at a university and am a doctoral student as well) - is that you can never 100% predict how they're going to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary123 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 BAHA! you're brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt07 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 (edited) Generally I never had this problem except for one class where there was a student who was clearly a prodigy and who kept asking questions and making comments that led you to believe that he could be teaching the class while the rest of us were struggling to understand the basic material. It made me crazy that he was taking up class time discussing very advanced topics when the subject matter that rest of us were trying to learn was being neglected. It also made me feel like a failure even though I got decent grades in that class. EDIT: I neglected to mention that he was an undergraduate while the rest of us were graduate students. Edited March 4, 2014 by jt07 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterRosie Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I haaaate when people do that. Especially when the questions have obvious answers and they are clearly only doing it to make some kind of impression or something because no one can be that stupid. This is me. I really am that stupid sometimes. Dissociation makes me lose track of sentences far too easily. Please accept my apology for holding you all up with my need to ask questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintalto Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 I genuinely don't mean to sound obnoxious, but why you were attending a meeting doped up on seroquel? I've learned from experience that when I can't control the precise timing of something, it's safer to take my seroquel later or afterwards. The shitty nature of meetings - especially academic meetings (I work at a university and am a doctoral student as well) - is that you can never 100% predict how they're going to go. It was only 2 pills because I was having some symptoms that required it shortly before that were not expected. I couldn't skip it either, my supervisors were expecting me to be there. I'm not used to seroquel during the day anymore. I have it prescribed for night and a few as a standby for unexpected situations during the day. Just in case. It wasn't an academic meeting so much as it was a hey guys, welcome back, here's the safety stuff we've implemented this year to keep the building up to code, here's the people you want to contact if you have this or that concerns etc... Also, to be fair, this is the "People Suck!" forum and I was angry at a person at the moment I wrote this and felt that "People Suck!" was an appropriate place to anonymously vent my frustration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintalto Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 Oh, I used to hate this as well. The worst was when I was taking a programming class and there was some "brilliant" high school student who was allowed to take this university class as part of some special program. He'd ask questions and go on and on and I'd sit there thinking, "why doesn't he ever shut-up?" So, you know what I did? I made friends with him. He was incredibly insecure. He was certainly out of place taking a night class with people significantly older than him. He had very few social skills. He had a lot of trouble holding a conversation. All he could talk about was computer crap. I like to think that we ended up helping each other. He'd help me with learning the programming skills to pass the class and I helped him come out of his shell and learn how to hold a conversation. So, it was a win-win. We even ended up taking other classes together. Strange how things work out sometimes, isn't it? I had this experience with someone who was severely aspbergers and they used to raise their hand to answer every question asked. I didn't understand at first and was very annoyed by it. They would practically quote books, word for word, as answers. Anyway, I'm not sure how, but we became friends eventually and that's when I came to understand what was going on. I wish I could have stayed friends with them, but I took off and moved away and never contacted them again. I am terrible at long distance contact. Anyway, I know what you are talking about, but I really don't think this falls into the socially awkward category. Who knows, maybe I'm terribly wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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