Anyway, I must admit I'm rather stuck up sometimes. To illustrate my point, let me quote from rateyourstudents.blogspot.com, which I ran into while surfing blogs of note. This was posted up by a teacher whom I assume is one of the blog's authors.
Quote:
Yes, I do have favorites, and no, you're not one of them. This is why:
- You ask bad questions. You ask questions designed to make you look smart, not to advance your understanding. You ask questions that have nothing to do with the subject at hand, simply to let other students know that you've already mastered these petty concepts, and are ready for something more challenging. You use big words that you learned just this morning, because you think it projects intelligence. It doesn't. It makes you look like a pretentious jack-ass. I'm not smiling because I think you're smart; I'm smiling because you just used that word wrong.
Unquote.
Somehow, I get the feeling that what that teacher said applies to me, sometimes.
*sigh
How much pride is healthy? And how much humility isn't?
Wish I knew.
4 comments:
hey, i've always thought of you as the right model of humility.
an archetype
despite your pride in certain areas, that pride you show is (should I say) "appropriate" and it just depicts the humorous side of you, and that makes you the wonderful person you are.
hehe
heh, you flatter me... =P LOL
Thanks bro.
Hey Jia Wern, congrats on JPA and Sewanee :D
Anyways, if you cant decide between both, you can always take A levels and apply to Cambridge & at the same time apply again to the states ;) Many people have done that and have gone off to Cambridge and top unis in the states (my friends got into MIT, Yale, Princeton)
Good luck in your future endeavours!
Ian Tang
SJS '05
well...it looks like im another pretentious jack-ass:D
and dude compared to most people you are really humble. I think its one of those relative things
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