Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Mean time? meantime? Meen Thyme?

It's the middle of the week, and I'm in good spirits so far.

Today I had one class, which is 3 hours long, about international perspectives of Human resource management. We all had to introduce ourselves to the class, which is always a hoot. I love seeing all the diversity in my classes and hearing how passionate people are about the world we live in.. and... social justice.. oh wait, that didn't happen. What I meant to say was I love hearing and seeing how exactly the same everybody is right down the Nalgene water bottle (they're durable by the way. Just out of curiosity, when was the last time you broke your water bottle) and how boring people can me (myself included)

I knew all that stuff before. What I learned was that some people really hate public speaking. I used to be one of those people, and somewhere along the way, something changed. Now, I love any opportunity I have to have all eyes on me and all ears listening to whatever disappointing jibberish will come out of my mouth. I managed to make the class laugh, but it's very likely that it was one of those lovely uncomfortable laughs, not one of those enjoyment laughs. Both are fun for me, so I don't really care.

I think I need to stop rolling my eyes when people say things that I say are dumb, too. Only because the teacher might see me and think that I'm a freak. But at school, one of the things we learn is how to break down assumptions and base your conclusions on evidence.
So let's give an example.. Person A is talking about how Alberta countryside and European countryside are similar because they're both green, and they're different.. well... Person A isn't sure why the countrysides are different cause they weren't expecting to be asked this in class so they didn't have time to research and prepare their answer.. so really, it still remains a mystery as to how Europe and Alberta are different in terms of countryside.. (Person A being in my class)

Person B (that's me by the way) glares because they can't figure out how somebody could live a year in Europe and not figure out that Europe is ridiculously more densely populated than Alberta. Anyways, I sub-conscioiusly thought this deserved a glare, so I glared. ..

Let's say the teacher saw me and ASSUMED that I was glaring at PERSON B because they are.. half retarded. They might want to come talk to me about it after class, but then they would realize that because of the sequence of events, maybe it only appeared that I was glaring at Person B maliciously, when in fact I could have been just glaring to myself because I forgot to pay my phone bill. So they would remind themselves that they can't accuse a student based on their assumption which are based on what they observed in that brief moment of time. Because you can't believe what you hear, and only half of what you see. You also shouldn't start sentences with because, but this isn't a grammar lesson here..

So my point is that I think people need to know more about how densely populated Europe is cause it's important and also you can always tell somebody they're wrongly accusing you based on their assumptions, which were clearly far from the truth.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You should never ASSUME anything, because it makes a SUM out of AS and UME....or something like that.