Anti-Climactic
It's the long-awaited (read: not-awaited at all) post about how my URL came to be. I’ve been meaning to post this for a long time, because I think people think I’m an anti-feminist freak. But really it is just a stupid college story...I had a class one summer in college that was small (maybe 8 students)and partly graded on in-class participation. Being a science/math nerd I hated classes like that. Participation? Discussion? Questions to which there was no right or wrong answer? What the hell? It didn’t help that it was summer, I was not very motivated, and I rarely did the reading before class.
So one day I was explaining my strategy for dealing with this class to my friend Jo. I told her that I always just tried to answer the first question the professor asked, because it was usually the easiest. But most of the time instead of replying with a coherent answer I would just ramble and go off-topic because I didn't know anything ABOUT the damn topic and I would be met with stunned silence.
So Jo, instead of reassuring me that I probably didn’t sound stupid, just said “And you know everyone is thinking ‘Oh, great. The dumb chick is talking again.’” The phrase "dumb chick" stuck in my vernacular, as a way to describe yourself or anyone else who is actually not dumb, but doing something or sounding dumb. Which, if we're honest, is probably a lot of the time, right? Right? Please tell me it isn't just me.
posted by Ami @ Wednesday, June 18, 2008
4 Comments:
was that the class circa 99 on religions around the world?
Anon - Yes, it was summer of 1999, and it was an anthropology class of some sort, but I can't remember the title of it. I would have to look at my transcript.
Dude, I am the DUMBEST smart person I have ever known. So true.
Love this story.
Tessie, don't take this the wrong way, but I had a feeling you would understand.
That class helped me, though. I always say the BSing is the one skill I learned in college that I still apply in real life.
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