The Gaping Gap Widens....
Ah, over the second last hurdle already and now for the third and final…
The presentation went pretty well. But I really blazed through my power points. I was so nervous and sweating buckets didn’t help either. It’s been a while since I’ve gone up in front of a classroom to present something. Almost all the engineering classes don’t offer much opportunity for public speaking, so my only exposure comes from the social science or humanities classes. Now I just have to worry about my MATH371 midterm which is at 9am tomorrow…
I’m sure most of us have heard about the great divide, be it with regards to standards of living, computer literacy etc. I’ve come to realize that it applies to a lot more situations. Just watching some shows on TV (during my breaks of course), I see celebrities getting free stuff every time they become presenters on award shows. Gifts range from hip apparel to expensive jewelry. These stars can afford to buy up whole stores, so why are they still getting free stuff? Don’t forget that these people don’t even have to work anymore just living off the millions they have in the bank and the interest they’re getting. The rich just get richer.
Parallels can be drawn from the world of glitz and glam to the domain of academics. I’m talking about those geniuses, people with brains that absorb like a sponge. All they need is for the professor to give a lecture once, and they understand the material. Heck, the stuff stays in their head for the rest of the semester. As for normal people like me, I have to go for office hours, go home and re-read the material and sometimes take long breaks before I get my “moment of enlightenment”. While I’m struggling with the new concepts, our dear smarties are leisurely reading the next chapter of the textbook or getting high on the Engineering Weekly. See how it works? So the smart get even smarter, leaving the regular human beings biting dust.
Well, at least normal people like me take the time to gripe about the “others” just to feel better about ourselves. :)
The presentation went pretty well. But I really blazed through my power points. I was so nervous and sweating buckets didn’t help either. It’s been a while since I’ve gone up in front of a classroom to present something. Almost all the engineering classes don’t offer much opportunity for public speaking, so my only exposure comes from the social science or humanities classes. Now I just have to worry about my MATH371 midterm which is at 9am tomorrow…
I’m sure most of us have heard about the great divide, be it with regards to standards of living, computer literacy etc. I’ve come to realize that it applies to a lot more situations. Just watching some shows on TV (during my breaks of course), I see celebrities getting free stuff every time they become presenters on award shows. Gifts range from hip apparel to expensive jewelry. These stars can afford to buy up whole stores, so why are they still getting free stuff? Don’t forget that these people don’t even have to work anymore just living off the millions they have in the bank and the interest they’re getting. The rich just get richer.
Parallels can be drawn from the world of glitz and glam to the domain of academics. I’m talking about those geniuses, people with brains that absorb like a sponge. All they need is for the professor to give a lecture once, and they understand the material. Heck, the stuff stays in their head for the rest of the semester. As for normal people like me, I have to go for office hours, go home and re-read the material and sometimes take long breaks before I get my “moment of enlightenment”. While I’m struggling with the new concepts, our dear smarties are leisurely reading the next chapter of the textbook or getting high on the Engineering Weekly. See how it works? So the smart get even smarter, leaving the regular human beings biting dust.
Well, at least normal people like me take the time to gripe about the “others” just to feel better about ourselves. :)
posted by Mike Ng at 11:03 PM
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