University Disappointment: My Expectations vs. Reality

Scott Ste Marie
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Broooo, I couldn't believe the nerds in this place. MLA!!!! LMFAO!!!! I'm betrayed by my own expectations. #selfimprovement #anxietyrelief #mensmentalhealth #depressionhelp
so when I went to University I'm like
this is it I go into the lecture hall my
first lecture it's everyone's first
lecture it's this German guy can barely
understand a word he says the professor
he's first complaining that they put
milk in his green tea and I'm like all
right and everyone's laughing I'm like
that joke sucked what's everyone
laughing about am I
insane and people have all their laptops
out and I'm like I don't have a laptop
first of all I couldn't afford that
second of all all through University I
never used a laptop for taking
notes memory works better when you
actually write things out with your hand
and I'm looking around and everyone's
just sat on the professor it's
microeconomics boring as hell he's doing
demand and Supply curves and everyone's
like oh okay yeah yeah yeah and he makes
a joke like oh if bread is uh going up
but ice cream is also going up we call
that a correlation not a causation and
everyone's
like oh bread and ice cream what the
hell is going on right now have you ever
been in those moments I was in another
lecture hall
and this was the second day and the
professor this is a lecture like 400
people and the lecture I'll never forget
it I felt so out of place my
expectations were so warped of what
university meant and what it meant to be
a university student and I'm around
these people that were in my residence
and the professor is like so so do we
want to do MLA or APA citations and
references and then I'm just like what's
MLA and APA I'm 19 years old I I just
wrote essays I just did work cited I I
don't know what the the terms are here
and everyone's raising their hand can we
do MLA please MLA and everyone's like
MLA MLA and I was like nerds oh
no what have I done and I felt so
alone in that moment and so betrayed by
my own expectations as
well that I'm like am I in the right
spot did I make the right
decision back to the first lecture I'm
looking around like can everyone else
look around like we're doing this thing
we're in University but everyone's just
all on the professor laughing at the
jokes and I ask myself that very
question is this it this is it this is
what university is
