How Did THEY Get Into College?

March 19, 2010     Posted in Entertainment, HaHa


By Jessica

As a mere 13-year-old with braces from ear to ear, I nervously paced down the hallways of my high school anxious for the next chapter of my life to begin.  Although the next four years would be filled with nonsensical drama and lame undercover house parties, thanks to constant reminder from my parents, I knew that virtually every decision I made would be on account of my future.

I enrolled in as many honors and AP classes as possible because “colleges love to see that.”  Between rounds of “binge” drinking (you know, two whole beers) on the weekends, I studied for hours to keep my grades up.  Even one unacceptable grade would lower my GPA and would affect what colleges I could apply to.  I made sure to partake in as many extracurricular activities as possible because as drilled into my brain, “colleges love to see that.”  And rest assured, when the time came, I had two SAT tutors every week to ensure my scores were up to par.  My essays were grilled to perfection and applications completed meticulously.  My heart skipped a beat every time the mail was delivered while awaiting acceptance letters. 

Being the accelerated genius that I am (please infer the implied sarcasm), I know that I am in college because I deserve to be.  So as I sit in class from time to time, and witness some questions asked that I could have answered in grade three, I am forced to wonder, “how the HELL did they get into college?”  I know I am not alone on the dark side of this unsolved mystery.  Ivy league friends of mine often share stories of some pretty dull crayons in their boxes as well.

Before I continue to knock my own school, I should explain.  I go to the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.  The intensity of competitiveness is sharper than a steak knife.  In order to be successful and to make it in the industry, book smarts alone won’t cut it.  Some of the most creative minds are products of FIT.  That being said, with “fashion” in the name of the school, a fair share of bimbos is inevitable.  The typical ex-Super-Sweet-Sixteener who loves to shop and thinks that they “have what it takes” simply because “like oooomg I just like LOVE fashion!”

My first roommate and her newly found BFF were front-runners in this category.  Their friendship was destined, or so they believed, because of their common “OBSESSION” with shoes and handbags.  I never had the heart (or desire to speak to them) to tell them that at a fashion school, that interest was pretty much a given, and common throughout 99 percent of the student body.  Their daily conversations and decisions to accept rides home from clubs from “this really nice guy who drove a black Escalade!” triggered countless sleepless nights as I would toss and turn over the concept that tweedle-dumb and dumber actually got into college.

An anecdote that will be taken to the grave with me involves the age-old mystery of….making milk.  Dumber wanted mac and cheese, Dumb broke the news of a milk-less refrigerator.  Thinking positively, Dumber proposed “making milk.”  She wasn’t exactly sure how, but she knew it involved “whipped cream…or something.”  I felt the word vomit defy gravity through my digestive system.  Her question: “so, how do you make milk?” My answer: “do you see a f**king cow in the kitchen??”  A puzzled moment of silence, followed by a light bulb: “OH YEAH! Milk comes from cows!”

The stories are endless, but I am saving them for my novel, possibly encyclopedia, The Dumbest Sh*t You’ve Ever Heard: A Compilation of Roommate Quotes. I would love to think the brainless-ness ended there, but it was just the beginning.  Just last week in math class, a confused peer refused to understand the concept that -3/4 is the same as 3/-4 in a fraction.  Thankfully, a colleague to the right of her explained that it was because of absolute value.  Right…. In an algebraic equation involving way too many zeros, I divided by 10 to simplify.  Such strategy left two nearby classmates baffled as to how we concluded the same answer.  Shouldn’t my answer be ten less?  I had no words.  This time a reference to farm animals would not suffice.

When all said and done, beyond their scope of bewilderment, I was the one left most confused.  If these concepts were foreign, how did they complete grade seven? How did they graduate high school? And the question not even my SAT tutors could answer: how the HELL did they get into college?

47 Comments on "How Did THEY Get Into College?"

  1. Kelsey says:
    Fri, 19th Mar 20108:27 am 

    I think my best example of this so far was in a required freshman writing class, where we had to do peer reviews. One girl commented that my research paper was boring because I included documented research to back up my points. I think she missed the whole point of a research paper.

  2. Tina says:
    Fri, 19th Mar 20108:52 am 

    My one former roommate used dish soap in the dishwasher… what a disaster and what an idiot.

  3. Erich says:
    Fri, 19th Mar 20109:07 am 

    One day while discussing the trip my boys would make to see me in the summer via plane my boys grandma (RN/ College Degree)had this to say:

    " well if we all go in a plane and we all die (the boys mom) wouldn't have any family left, so I thinks its better we drive accross country".

    Really? Are f'n serious? I cant belive that here sits an educated strong headed woman and you think its safer to drive accross the country than to fly? Do you know the chances of dying in a plane crash? Or of a plane crashing? Compared to car wrecks, planes are much safer.

    It's like the common sense bus didnt stop by thier house.

  4. Em says:
    Fri, 19th Mar 20109:15 am 

    I go to an "ivy league" school… and some of the shit I hear come out of people's mouths makes me want to cry. The worst part is that these people feel such a sense of entitlement for going to an ivy league school that they truly believe that every word they say is a gift from God. As for my roommate, I could make some delightful additions to that book.

  5. Kate says:
    Fri, 19th Mar 201010:05 am 

    To be honest, I was one of those kids who slacked off during high school. I also lack a great deal of common sense, but I'm good at what I do (Economics). Having said that, it's frustrating beyond belief to work your ass off in college, and to see many students not give a shit and feel like they're entitled to excel. There's A LOT of that at State Schools, but it's more prevalent in the honors program. I ended up dropping the program because it's a huge joke.

  6. criolle johnny says:
    Fri, 19th Mar 201010:40 am 

    "It’s like the common sense bus didnt stop by thier house."

    … the spelling and apostrophe bus missed yours.

    COLLEGE is the new MIDDLE SCHOOL. It's all been "dumbed down". Wait 'til you have a doctor who went to Med School on the "I have a right" bus.

  7. Erich says:
    Fri, 19th Mar 201011:16 am 

    Maybe not, but that's OK by me. Im not being graded.

  8. R says:
    Fri, 19th Mar 201012:03 pm 

    HaHa My Best Friend goes to FIT and she says its pretty cut throat im your taking a serios major. She has like 4 hour classes and not 2 mention the money she spends on supplies. I honestly think FIT kids are some of the hardest working students(Making a dress in like 3days YIKES). But she told me the air heads are the ones who basically go there 2 learn how 2 shop. I 4got what major it is but she most of them a dumb, airheads, and spoiled brats

  9. Maria says:
    Fri, 19th Mar 20101:59 pm 

    I had an entire math class full of people like that. Not just a math class, but a 100-level intro STATISTICS class… There was the "nontraditional" student who honestly thought that because she was 40-something, math was harder for her. We were allowed to have "cheat sheets" for the tests, and could put any info we wanted on them. The people around me were always so bewildered when I would get 100%s and they would get 40%s…

  10. Jess says:
    Fri, 19th Mar 20102:05 pm 

    this is one of the exact reasons I don't have a roommate. did that the first year, almost bit my tongue in half. my favorite now, I think, is one I heard in my baking class (I go to culinary school). We had to scale down our recipe to a third, and this gem came out of one of my partner's mouths:

    "What's one third of three pounds? Oh yea, just take 1/3 out of each. What's three thirds?" I literally had to turn away to keep from smacking her with my spatula.

  11. Nikki says:
    Fri, 19th Mar 20103:36 pm 

    I think "how did THEY get into college" on a regular basis while reading this site. The typos are horrific and the writing style is often even worse.

  12. Nicole says:
    Fri, 19th Mar 20104:14 pm 

    You actually CAN make milk from whipping cream (I know you said whipped cream, but she could have had her words mixed up). It isn't exactly milk, but it thins out the cream with water, making it a close substitute for milk.

  13. E. says:
    Fri, 19th Mar 20106:05 pm 

    "There was the “nontraditional” student who honestly thought that because she was 40-something, math was harder for her."

    Since she probably hadn't done much, if any, math for the last 20+ years… Yeah, it probably was harder for her.

  14. criolle johnny says:
    Sat, 20th Mar 20107:37 am 

    Now that I've thought about it more, THEY PAID TUITION! Isn't that really the purpose of a college?

    If you didn't have all of THEM, the school would either lay off some professors and staff, or raise YOUR tuition. We all know what decision they would make.

    What's the difference between a politician, a prostitute, and a college administration?

    There are some things a prostitute will not do for money.

  15. Sophie says:
    Sat, 20th Mar 20109:05 am 

    In one of my classes, a student refused to call the professor "doctor" because the professor wasn't a medical doctor. Not only did she refuse, but she and professor had a spat about it in front of the class. It was crazy. She was a total idiot.

  16. Casey says:
    Sat, 20th Mar 20109:08 am 

    In one of my LIT classes, we had to review each others drafts and this girls paper was so poorly written that I couldn't understand a word of it. I couldn't even edit it because I wasn't sure what she was trying to say. I spent the entire class on the first paragraph and then ended up feeling bad because everyone else got through their partners entire papers and I felt like I had cheated her somehow, so I offered to stay after with her to finish it. When we left class, I realized I was the one who was cheated because I had an illiterate girl reviewing MY paper. After looking over her "corrections" on my paper all she had done was cross out words that she thought didn't really exist. Pathetic. I thought then and there, "how the hell did she get into college!?"

    And the old women in math classes is the worst. One semester this 40 something woman sat next to me in a math course and she would nod her head fervently the entire time the professor was lecturing. Seeing that out of my peripherals was extremely distracting, but if I switched seats, she switched seats. She failed every single test and quiz, guess the crazy nodding didn’t mean she understood, just that she wanted people to think she did.

  17. Kelly - University o says:
    Sat, 20th Mar 201010:24 am 

    I'm a Spanish minor and there are people in my Spanish-only classes that don't know Spanish at all. Most of them are freshman (the entrance proficiency exams are at-home and online so it's easy to cheat) that want to get ahead. It really just ruins the class for the rest of us because the teacher takes so much time to reteach them the language rather than analyze stories like we're supposed to.

    Last semester while studying with my partner for our Spanish oral exam, I told her that my 21st birthday was the day of my exam. She told me she couldn't wait to turn 18 in a month.

  18. Beth says:
    Sat, 20th Mar 201010:19 pm 

    I think the best moment from someone in my course was 'What's coitus?', in a lecture on reproduction. The professor struggled to hide his laughter.

  19. Beth says:
    Sat, 20th Mar 201010:21 pm 

    Oh, and apparently one person didn't know how to square a number on the calculator on their mobile.

  20. Mel says:
    Sun, 21st Mar 20107:51 pm 

    Wow, really guys? Some of these comments are absolutely terrible. Now I have a solid reason for not asking questions in class or for why people always wonder if they're "too old to go back to school"–people judging way too much when it is completely unnecessary.

    Why don't you all worry about yourselves and let everyone else fail or succeed as they need to. That's their money going down the drain, not yours (just FYI).

  21. syd says:
    Sun, 21st Mar 20108:58 pm 

    @Mel, because it dumbs it down for the rest of us, who actually deserved to graduate 8th grade. I've heard people ask questions that would have gotten me held back in kindergarten, no joke. People who can't read or find whole continents on a map have no place in the same classroom as people who are trying to prepare for careers or graduate school. Now, I went to a competitive high school, so I may be a bit biased, since some college level stuff, I already had basic knowledge of. But some things, that certain people ask and say, quite literally, is knowledge that is unacceptable for people over age five not to know. It's not like they're just going to be left behind….the professor's job is to teach, and if he or she has to sacrifice teaching challenging material to people who actually want and need to be there to explain where Egypt is, that the Earth revolves around the Sun, and the difference between 'your' and 'you're,' that's what will happen. So I find myself getting easy As in classes, but I feel that I haven't proven anything other than I am proficient in topics that were covered in my 3rd grade classroom. I haven't learned anything. I'm spending thousands of dollars a year to take classes I would have scoffed at in middle school. Yes, my money IS going down the drain if my honors English class is 90% dedicated to subjects that no one should be allowed to complete fourth grade without knowing. It's disgusting and a mockery of the higher education system.

  22. Vanessa says:
    Mon, 22nd Mar 20105:36 pm 

    This article is so mean, ungracious and insensitive!! Don't you think that the people who aren't the smartest in the world know they aren't that smart and feel badly enough about themselves without all of you rubbing it in their faces? Don't you think they have other good qualities besides intelligence? You really should try to be more gracious, understanding and nicer people!

  23. RIKO says:
    Mon, 22nd Mar 20106:54 pm 

    I have the exact different experience. Unfortunately I go to a school where everyone thinks they are the best and brightest and smartest. They demand that everyone pays attention to how brilliant they really are and every thing that comes out of their mouth is a pearl of wisdom.

    F.Y.I you are not special. you are not better than anyone else so I hate when people call themselves 'gifted' or that they went to super awesome wonderful high schools. We all did. Get over it and move on. There's no shame in asking questions and there's no shame in being 'dumb' in a subject, hello we are at college to learn! If you already know everything then why are you even here.

    /end rant

  24. Margo M says:
    Tue, 23rd Mar 20103:32 pm 

    I think there are many different dimensions to your issue: financial, social, quality of education, group/class presence.

    I also have problems with some people in my classes, but this is because I KNOW THEY ARE SMART but REFUSE to do their WORK. I think that this is the worse case.

    On the other hand, everyone here seems to be concerned that his or her education is "dumbed down" to a lesser quality. Well, classes are often not taught for experts and even the easiest subject can grow exponentially in difficulty from a lack of interest. Your education is what you get out of it-not what the person next to you does.

    I obviously thought better of readers on this site. Why would you judge another person whom you don't even know? Well, maybe if you were in class with a heart surgeon he would probably fail your class, because he or she would be too busy saving lives, maybe yours.

    I guess taking a few AP classes earns you the right to judge your peers like this. Well, how about this: would it be fair to you if someone judged you on your appearance (everyday), how much money you have, your social life, how much partying you do, what you drive, where you come from, your religion, race, gender, etc? It's not really fair but it happens. You may be above average in academics but maybe the top kid in your class is looking down at you too.

  25. Alice says:
    Tue, 23rd Mar 20106:14 pm 

    This article is completely correct.

    I have noticed the same things happening.

    Maybe you haven't noticed because you are the one dumbing the class down.

  26. Lala says:
    Tue, 23rd Mar 20106:47 pm 

    absolutely true. it is ridiculous. i think schools just accept them for the money or something stupid like that. how pathetic.

  27. Jess says:
    Tue, 23rd Mar 20107:02 pm 

    My roommate from my freshman year (who was a sophomore) asked me after living together 2 days, "Was Shakespeare British?" I nearly fell off my bed with how gobsmacked I was. I'm sorry, it doesn't matter that she is a Pre-Pharmacy major… that sort of thing is compulsory to know.

  28. RIKO says:
    Tue, 23rd Mar 20108:42 pm 

    that argument is flawed because depending on what you studied someone else will you find you 'dumb' for not knowing what they know. For example, one of my roommates was a music major who found it ridiculous that my other roommates didn't know basic music theory. Another was a chemistry major and found it crazy that some of us did not know certain chemical theories/laws. Whenever I think 'man this person is so dumb,' i just remind myself that there are some things that I don't know that judging from another's point of view is imperative to know. And I agree with Margo, nobody is 'holding you back' in your education. If you feel the class is moving too slowly, read ahead in the textbook, then you can be class genius!

  29. verizon.gowtham says:
    Thu, 25th Mar 201011:25 pm 

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  30. bebe says:
    Fri, 26th Mar 20107:46 pm 

    I don't agree…not knowing Shakespeare is English? That's a little ridiculous. Maybe if it was someone like Bronte, or Austen (MAYBE) but Shakespeare? THE most famous playwright/author of all time?

  31. Casey says:
    Sat, 27th Mar 20105:49 am 

    No one's judging anyone here, we're stating known facts. If you can't handle simple knowledge that you should have obtained in grade school then you, literally, HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING IN COLLEGE. It IS unfair to those of us who actually learned the stuff taught in grade school, and it IS a waste of OUR money. College used to be for the select few who were smart enough to go, what happened to that? College is a joke now-a-days. Anyone and everyone can go to college, when not everyone is MEANT to go to college.

    College is NOT an introduction to education, you should have been introduced AND MASTERED every single one of these topics that the commenters are complaining about BEFORE GETTING A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA. So yes, our arguments are very reasonable, we don't want to waste our time and money on a class that we learn nothing in because one person in the class didn't pay attention to the introductory course in grade school.

    No we're not "experts". No we don't "know it all", and no one is claiming to, stop reading hate into our comments! We're not saying these people don't have other good qualities, or they're wastes of space in the world, We're saying it's not right that we don't get to take the next step in OUR education because teachers have to dumb it down for people who haven't EARNED THE RIGHT TO BE THERE, like we have. They are wastes of space in the classroom, and they aren't smart, and they SHOULDN'T. BE. THERE. and that is a FACT, not an opinion.

  32. Tamara says:
    Sat, 27th Mar 20108:18 am 

    I have to agree with Casey on this one (surprise surprise). Let me explain.

    I come from a very different background: to make it short, in my country there's nothing like SAT's, although in the biggest and most important school in the country (University of Buenos Aires, where I go) there is a special freshman year that is meant to work as a levelling course. The thing is, in my country most high schools are ridiculously bad. So now the University is trying to take care of that with that levelling year; the thing is: 1) College should not be fixing school problems; college is to learn more stuff, not the stuff you should have learn, and 2) One year can't make for five years of bad education! In the end, these people tend to drop out because college is too hard for them, or spendig 10 years trying to get a degree.

    So I don't think we should take the ignorant people and say "everything is OK, let's let them through college no matter what". We should recognise this ignorance as a sign of a bigger problem and try to help them; they're not necessaryly stupid, and ignorance migh in most cases not be their falt.

  33. brandi says:
    Sun, 28th Mar 20107:59 pm 

    I have to agree with this article as well. I'm not in college yet, I start in the fall, but I have noticed the same things during high school. I had a marketing elective so it was a mix of tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders. It was horrible when it was time for reading and presentations. Twelfth graders could not get through a simple paragraph in under twenty minutes! They stumbled over every word, making the class longer and by the time they finished I forgot what the paragraph was even explaining. No one's acting superior, but there are some things that should already know at that time in your life, especially if you are planning on college.

  34. Danny says:
    Mon, 29th Mar 20101:47 am 

    I don't agree with a good majority of these examples. Yes, are people who get into university with little or none of the required knowledge and do terrible, but the vast majority of these seem to be out of the classroom airhead moments which everyone has. Yes milk coming from cows and shakespear being british are common knowledge, but who actually cares? Those are way down on the list of things I or most people would need to know.

    Unless you all are epically passing your courses your still learning stuff you need to learn. And unless your looking over your classmates work on a semi-regular basis then I fail to see how you can make judgement on whether or not they deserve to be in college.

  35. Kiko says:
    Sat, 10th Apr 201012:09 pm 

    ^ Truth man, you speak the truth. The fact is, someone else's preformance in college does not affect you. Period. If you think the professor's going too slow to pace the slower students, read ahead. In fact you should be making straight A's.

  36. Sammy says:
    Thu, 15th Apr 20102:21 am 

    I had a group of girls looking out a window, onto an empty street, keeled over they were laughing so hard…. at a crane. "Isn't that the funniest looking vehicle you have ever seen?!" …They thought someone was actually driving it as a personal vehicle, or something along those lines which leads me to believe they don't know what a crane is… That is disgusting.

    Another girl in my stat class asked my prof how he got the answer to 2+2. She has asked many more ridiculous questions, and i have actually said thephrase "how did she get into college?" way too many times to keep track of.

  37. Sammy says:
    Thu, 15th Apr 20102:30 am 

    Just to add to the bickering. This stat girl of mine has wasted SOOOOO much class time asking ridiculous questions, it became a waste to go to class for almost a month.

    And I have a bio prof who wastes almost 45minutes every hour and a half class answering stupid questions or arguments from students…

    THIS is a huge waste of my time and it has proven to seriously effect our grades because there is nowhere for me or anyone to make the grades up.

    General, or easy skills are meant to be taught before college not only TO BE ACCEPTED, but also to make sure these people can keep up, but society has some sick idea that we need to baby the slower ones, therefore slowing the rest of us down. THATS not fair , since i worked my A** off in high school to make sure I succeeded in college, and these people probably squeeked by with a pass and got into the same program as me.

  38. Allie says:
    Thu, 15th Apr 20104:39 pm 

    In my experience, on the syllabus the professor hands out it has a timeline of when he/she will be covering topics and various due dates, and I have never had a teacher slow down or change plans significantly because of students falling behind. I have attended two different universities and in both cases they have had the attitude of keep up with the curriculum or don't, it is your grade. I agree with some of the comments on here about common sense and how annoying it can be but I am just not understanding all of the people whose professors are "slowing down" their education.

  39. Casey says:
    Thu, 15th Apr 20108:07 pm 

    Allie, I once had a professor, who although awesome, didn't use a book, and instead did lecture/notes. There was a girl in the class who was the biggest MORON I have ever had the dis-pleasure of knowing. She seriously asked the dumbest questions, every. single. day. There were also two wise asses in the back who may as well have just stayed home because all they did was ask questions trying to run up the class time.

    Because of these three students the teacher was rarely able to finish an entire lecture on time, and therefore we didn't get through the entire syllabus. I rather enjoyed that class and learned so much in each sitting that I felt extremely cheated that I wasn't able to get the full class, because of people who SLOWED THE CLASS DOWN, and thus stole part of my education.

    These people are thieves, of time, money, and knowledge.

  40. Sandro says:
    Wed, 21st Apr 20107:13 pm 

    Ok this is the problem with America. Every person to my mind is an idiot mainly because nobody is perfect. Stop worrying about what other people do and go live your life. Little things like that make you out to be one of those fag ass neighbors that call Town Hall because city code isn't being followed

  41. Jess says:
    Sat, 24th Apr 201012:40 pm 

    Yes, you are smart and yes you worked hard in high school. However, the way that you act and treat other people is way more important than what you look like on paper. You are judging people that you do not even know because they may not know something that you do. Saying that they shouldn't have gotten into college because of one thing that they said one time in class makes you incredibly closed minded. Stop thinking about what other people know, it is really non of your business.

  42. Henry says:
    Sun, 25th Apr 20106:32 pm 

    People can make stupid comments and lack common sense and still do well in school (in fact, many great scientists are like this). Nevertheless, if they carry this manner into the classroom it is annoying and not good for the education of the rest of the class. No, in most cases they won't disregard the schedule on the syllabus; it will be more subtle than that, and in fact your current classmates will have most of their effect on future students. The previous students who had asked questions on simple things will be the ones to slow down your education. Try taking a course like chemistry 101 at a directional school (e.g., University of Southern Alabama), and compare it to a class at the state flagship (e.g., U of Alabama). Even though UA is not especially known for chemistry, the caliber of the students be higher as the program is developed, so it will move quicker and cover more. The instructors will know they don't need to spend as much time on the basics, becuase they will have been able to cover them quickly in the past with little problem.

    Another issue, just as important, is you will be used to performing at a higher level if your classmates are smarter, as you all will be held to a higher standard. Just like a college basketball player will improve more scrimaging against other college players than say a junior high player, you will be led to a higher level with the higher standards students have for themselves. This is very important if you want to go on to further education; it is harder to come to play against students who have been keeping up with the best and brightest if you were just floating above average students with little effort.

  43. L says:
    Wed, 28th Apr 201010:35 am 

    this reminds me of a story my friend told me. he was in english class and for some reason the odyssey came up. one girl said that it was a good novel, and the professor corrected her and said it was an epic poem. the girl then proceeded to argue for the next five minutes that it was all just a matter of opinion. not being able to tell the difference between a poem and a novel is unacceptable. but then again i'm an english major.

  44. Anonymous says:
    Tue, 1st Jun 20106:17 pm 

    all this makes sense because really all it takes to get into a good college is a good GPA (grade point average), one doesnt need to be smart to make it. all you have to do is memorize facts, and you will be fine… on the other hand most people would judge how smart someone is by there common sense, you dont have to be smart to have common sense though

  45. ABC says:
    Sat, 19th Mar 20117:18 pm 

    usually its the smart people that have good gpas, and they have them because they're smart. and i do not know where you got any of your information from, because your grades are not the only things that count for colleges. extracurriculars count, the difficulty of your classes, the essay and supplements, the interview (if you had one), your reccommendations, and im sure some other things that i forgot to mention.

  46. I agree says:
    Sun, 21st Aug 20119:05 am 

    I wonder myself how the hell I got in…I have a degree in Microbiology and just found out from a non-Micro major at work that Blood agar and TSA with blood are the same thing. We keep Blood agar plates and an organisn wouldn't grow so I ordered TSA with Blood and my supervisor just looked at me then told another coworker that I had ordered TSA with Blood instead of Blood agar. I didn't realize they were mocking me. My manager came into our lab and asked her for some saline solution. She told him to ask me because she only had sodium chloride. She was serious. That is embarrassing however in my defense, my supervisor thinks she is super intelligent because she went to a UC school but during an experiment I was performing with Gentamicin in liquid form the gentamicin stopped the growth of the bacteria. She asked me if we needed to put a Gentamicin disk on a plate of solid agar with the bacteria to show the Gentamicin in liquid killed the bacteria. I think that is dumber. Liquid or solid works the same idiot. I think we all have dumb moments and we all have smart moments, the difference in intelliegence is the opportunities people are given in life or exposed to during experiences….

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