Comments on: Dear Undergrad: An Exchange http://nonpretentious.com/2009/09/dear-undergrad-an-exchange-3/ it's not a website, it's a lifestyle Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:36:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mike http://nonpretentious.com/2009/09/dear-undergrad-an-exchange-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1174 Mike Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:30:48 +0000 http://nonpretentious.com/?p=6022#comment-1174 Ha, great post. Did somebody seriously write that? Wow. I sympathize with "undergrad's" comments. I often felt pretty annoyed as an undergrad that graduate students often acted so superior. Ha, great post. Did somebody seriously write that? Wow.

I sympathize with “undergrad’s” comments. I often felt pretty annoyed as an undergrad that graduate students often acted so superior.

]]> By: J. Law http://nonpretentious.com/2009/09/dear-undergrad-an-exchange-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1166 J. Law Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:06:25 +0000 http://nonpretentious.com/?p=6022#comment-1166 Dear Undergrad, I don't care if ur a brown nosing suck up or a complete slacker as long as you don't bother me. (The brown nosers are usually worse, cuz they just have to impress) LISTEN, we (grad students) are here (school/lab) every day all day all summer all winter all the time, so what makes you think you can wander in for a few hours and take up space (which we don't really have enough of) and think that we should even give an ounce of crap about you. Over the summer when you were off at the beach or something there were no lines at dunkin donuts, no crowds in the halls and i didn't have to hear retarded conversations on the local public transportation like: UG1: And then like my boy friend came over, and he smoked a cigarette, and then we watched 24. UG2: OMG I love 24! UG1: Yeah, me too. And so does my boyfriend - isn't that great? But now you're back, crawling like ants all over the place and being generally annoying. -GS Dear Undergrad,

I don’t care if ur a brown nosing suck up or a complete slacker as long as you don’t bother me. (The brown nosers are usually worse, cuz they just have to impress) LISTEN, we (grad students) are here (school/lab) every day all day all summer all winter all the time, so what makes you think you can wander in for a few hours and take up space (which we don’t really have enough of) and think that we should even give an ounce of crap about you. Over the summer when you were off at the beach or something there were no lines at dunkin donuts, no crowds in the halls and i didn’t have to hear retarded conversations on the local public transportation like:
UG1: And then like my boy friend came over, and he smoked a cigarette, and then we watched 24.
UG2: OMG I love 24!
UG1: Yeah, me too. And so does my boyfriend – isn’t that great?

But now you’re back, crawling like ants all over the place and being generally annoying.

-GS

]]> By: Undergrad http://nonpretentious.com/2009/09/dear-undergrad-an-exchange-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1157 Undergrad Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:06:25 +0000 http://nonpretentious.com/?p=6022#comment-1157 Dear Grad Student, This post made me a little sad. While I do agree that this particular undergrad student wrote an inappropriate email to you, I feel that this post undermines ALL undergrads. Let me tell you, not all of us are irresponsible students. Had I missed class (which I never do, by the way), I would have written an appropriate email. I wonder - do you feel this way about all undergrads? Let me tell you, we are all not dumb hooligans. Sometimes grad students scare me and act so pretentious. I want to be like, "dude, stop treating me like a 7 year old." - but I don't. For many reasons. First, as you have stated above, you don't talk to a grad student like that. (Actually, Mr. Grad student - you don't talk to ANYONE like that. Don't act like you get some special treatment just because you are a grad student). Secondly, I'm scared that if I expressed my real opinion you would lower my grade. I walk through the semester on egg shells hoping that you like me enough to grade my papers a little bit easier. But no. I'm the student who attends every discussion, every lecture, turns in ever assignment in on time, and at the end of the day, do I get recognition? Nope. I bet the person who wrote you this email got a better grade on their paper than mine. It's fine, my good looks will get me through life. Sincerely, A ranting undergrad Dear Grad Student,
This post made me a little sad. While I do agree that this particular undergrad student wrote an inappropriate email to you, I feel that this post undermines ALL undergrads. Let me tell you, not all of us are irresponsible students. Had I missed class (which I never do, by the way), I would have written an appropriate email. I wonder – do you feel this way about all undergrads? Let me tell you, we are all not dumb hooligans. Sometimes grad students scare me and act so pretentious. I want to be like, “dude, stop treating me like a 7 year old.” – but I don’t. For many reasons. First, as you have stated above, you don’t talk to a grad student like that. (Actually, Mr. Grad student – you don’t talk to ANYONE like that. Don’t act like you get some special treatment just because you are a grad student). Secondly, I’m scared that if I expressed my real opinion you would lower my grade. I walk through the semester on egg shells hoping that you like me enough to grade my papers a little bit easier.
But no. I’m the student who attends every discussion, every lecture, turns in ever assignment in on time, and at the end of the day, do I get recognition? Nope. I bet the person who wrote you this email got a better grade on their paper than mine. It’s fine, my good looks will get me through life.
Sincerely,
A ranting undergrad

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