Man, we are a messed up bunch
October 1, 2008emily 2 Comments »Here’s a fun trick. Get a group of academics together in a room. Doesn’t matter what department they’re in. History, Sociology, Econ, Statistics, Engineering… get a good mix. Talk to them for awhile. Move around the room and watch them interact with one another. Do this for at least an hour. Then review what you’ve just seen and heard. I guarantee that you won’t find a bigger group of social retards socially maladjusted people. I don’t know what it is about universities, but they tend to draw an overwhelming number of misfits. It was described to me perfectly the other day: in society, you have a majority of normal people coexisting with a minority of oddities, people on the fringe who don’t know how to act in public. In academia, it’s the reverse. The misfits are in charge and the normal folks are on the fringe, getting the weird looks and the sidelong glances. Why is that?
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Oh my gosh, I’m speechless. Except for one word: AMEN!
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
You are talking about my ex-husband. If you wanted to talk about Soil Science, then he was your man.
It is because people with PhDs (present company excluded) study only one thing and become experts in only one thing. They are not well rounded people who can talk to everyone about everything. They can’t talk about trivialities like sports, movies, or television shows because they have better things to do with their time (like study soil science)……..you have opened up a sore subject here.