White and nerdy

[Rye]

My Japanese 101 class is most certainly the nerdiest class in the university, except possibly higher level Japanese to weed out the people who aren't completely enthusiastic.

We have to speak a lot in the class, repeat after the teacher, etc.

Example:

Mainichi, watashi wa gohan o tabemasu.
(Everyday, I eat rice)

We all repeat after the teacher, but there are always the greasy anime shirt wearing kids who scream out their answer so fast so that they can be ultimate Japanese master to cut everyone off. The class was crammed with kids who are fighting for permission codes so they can take the class for credit. I'm nerdier than the average girl, don't get me wrong, but I'm feeling so beaten.

On our homework sheet, we had to translate our new vocabulary words from hiragana to romanji, and then to English, so we could study them. One of them was in kanji, so I didn't understand, but it turned out to be the characters for Japan. I found out because one of the girls looked rabidly over my shoulder and shouted "YOU KNOW THAT MEANS NIHON WHICH MEANS JAPAN IT'S IN KANJI I LEARNED SOME WHEN I WAS IN CAMP I FIGURED NO ONE ELSE WOULD KNOW, ONLY ME, THAT IT WAS IN KANJI, NIHON, MEANS JAPAN, OR IT COULD ALSO BE PRONOUNCED..."

I'm scared. No one has a top knot like in Hsu's japanese class, but it's pretty close.

Any funny class stories?

[Værn]

CAD class. Enough said. Packed with gamer nerds who wanted to learn to make 3D sprites for video games.

I was faster than the rest of the juniors, so I spent a lot of my free time watching anime and movies in addition to my usual shenanigans (see grilled cheese incident and carrot prank) =P

[Montoya]

My math teacher is crazy, like insane in the membrane crazy. She starts off super nice like she wouldn't hurt a fly, but the second anyone asks a question about why a problem on the board has that solution she snaps, gets angry, and thinks that everyone is out to get her and rambles on. I swear, everyone is afraid to ask a question.

First day.

Teacher: "You see, I'm kind of like a coach, coaching you guys in math you know."

Student: "So can we call you Coach?"

Teacher: "NO YOU MAY NOT CALL ME COACH! Are you trying to waste my time?!" (And I kid you not, she spends the next seven minutes of class explaining the difference between a coach and a math professor, in addition accusing the student of trying to waste class time.)

Now that is a waste of time! I hate math, and she only makes it worse.

[Momiji]

漢字は、難しいを習う。

I have no idea if that is right or not.

[o_O]

Most people in my computer science classes were ultra-nerdy. Like, running shoes, dress pants, a dress shirt and one of those <a href="http://www.wellingtonsurplus.com.au/images/m/CT0430.jpg">puffer vest things</a> nerdy.

I had this one calculus lecturer in my third year of calc who refused to use any visual aides to his lecturing. He had an overhead projector, a projector hooked up to a computer and nine blackboards (literally), at his disposal, yet all he did was pace back and forth at the front, speaking calculus, without a microphone. He also had a rule of "if I hear your cellphone, you leave", and on more than one occasion stopped the class for over half a lecture until somebody left out of frustration.

[Marshall Banana]

Creepy.

[rubah]

My engineering classes are all the surly hard workers who know they can make a lot of money and get to upper management positions if they succeed in mechanical engineering. So not so many nerds.

There's this crazy guy who started the year off with brand-new brands. On both arms.
Then the next week he had a black eye, busted blood vessel in his eye, and scratches over the rest of his face. doubya tee eff?

So no, my classes are all srsly buisness.

[Moon Rabbits]

Most people in my computer science classes were ultra-nerdy. Like, running shoes, dress pants, a dress shirt and one of those <a href="http://www.wellingtonsurplus.com.au/images/m/CT0430.jpg">puffer vest things</a> nerdy.

I had this one calculus lecturer in my third year of calc who refused to use any visual aides to his lecturing. He had an overhead projector, a projector hooked up to a computer and nine blackboards (literally), at his disposal, yet all he did was pace back and forth at the front, speaking calculus, without a microphone. He also had a rule of "if I hear your cellphone, you leave", and on more than one occasion stopped the class for over half a lecture until somebody left out of frustration.

You described everyone in any computer course I have ever taken, save myself. Taking these kinds of courses makes me feel so much more awesome and cool than I actually am because I do not have a pizza face, stringy hair, and my pants tucked into my socks. Jeezus. I once had to try and explain my reasoning for having facial piercings to this guy for almost a half an hour, eventually I gave up. He called them barbaric or something. I rolled my eyes. On more than one occasion when the nerdy types get all elitist and would poke fun at my code or something of the like, I was so overwhelmingly compelled to turn around and tell them all that I've touched more girls than they ever will, which, is kind of sad, seeing as I am gay and all.

Also, Rye, you have only confirmed my assumptions about what taking a Japanese course would be like. Full of otakus who desperately are trying to prove that THEY ARE THE MOST JAPANESE. Scary ; - ;

brand-new brands.

Brands? Like he branded himself? With hot iron? Hardcore.

[black orb]

>>> God knows how much I hated the School/College and classes.
But now im free from all that torture.

[rubah]

Brands? Like he branded himself? With hot iron? Hardcore.

It was disgusting

[o_O]

Most people in my computer science classes were ultra-nerdy. Like, running shoes, dress pants, a dress shirt and one of those <a href="http://www.wellingtonsurplus.com.au/images/m/CT0430.jpg">puffer vest things</a> nerdy.

I had this one calculus lecturer in my third year of calc who refused to use any visual aides to his lecturing. He had an overhead projector, a projector hooked up to a computer and nine blackboards (literally), at his disposal, yet all he did was pace back and forth at the front, speaking calculus, without a microphone. He also had a rule of "if I hear your cellphone, you leave", and on more than one occasion stopped the class for over half a lecture until somebody left out of frustration.

You described everyone in any computer course I have ever taken, save myself. Taking these kinds of courses makes me feel so much more awesome and cool than I actually am because I do not have a pizza face, stringy hair, and my pants tucked into my socks. Jeezus. I once had to try and explain my reasoning for having facial piercings to this guy for almost a half an hour, eventually I gave up. He called them barbaric or something. I rolled my eyes. On more than one occasion when the nerdy types get all elitist and would poke fun at my code or something of the like, I was so overwhelmingly compelled to turn around and tell them all that I've touched more girls than they ever will, which, is kind of sad, seeing as I am gay and all.

Heh heh, I know, right? Superiority in a computer science course is being able to sneer at somebody because you thought of using "int n = (a == 1)?a:0;" instead of "if (a == 1) { int n = a; } else { int n = 0 }". And half of your class is proud of their patchy, scruffy-looking "beards".

[Moon Rabbits]

Heh heh, I know, right? Superiority in a computer science course is being able to sneer at somebody because you thought of using "int n = (a == 1)?a:0;" instead of "if (a == 1) { int n = a; } else { int n = 0 }". And half of your class is proud of their patchy, scruffy-looking "beards".

Oh god oh god oh god. It was as if none of them had ever heard of the word razor. Sometimes there was food in them ; - ;

One guy in my class had an epic jewfro though, that was pretty cool.

[mooglebunni608]

In my german class I got stuff chucked at my head. A lot. Like pencils. And marbles. And tea bags.
Poor guy got a pencil with a tea bag tied to it with a marble inside thrown at his head <3

[Rye]

The kid I sit next to who has a crush on me in my Japanese class has a massive jewfro. It would put Aaron Freed to shame.

[Clouded Sky]

Nice try Momiji.

Anyway, yeah that sounds pretty much similar to my first Japanese class. I always felt stupid/normal around some of those kids. By the 6th class though a lot of the anime nerds were gone, and those that remained were on pretty level playing field.