Insomniac's blog

Why, oh why do people want to know about someone's life just so they can shoot them down? Today I was at the ole GVSU working on compiling my notes for my summer research project so I can write a halfway intelligent paper on it all. Anyhow, I happened to run across Professor Bizarro. No, I haven't posted about Professor Bizarro before. This guy is absolutely the strangest person I have ever met...both in appearance and demeanor. Anyhows, Professor Bizarro stopped me in the hallway and asked me when I was graduating. I told Professor Bizarro that I am graduating in December of this year. He then asked what my plans were for after graduation. I told him that I am planning on pursuing graduate school for history and I am applying at MSU and Western Michigan University. He proceeded to then go on a rant about how I won't be able to make it through grad school and that even if I did, no place would hire me because I went to a bad school. He was generous enough to say that I might be able to maybe, just maybe get a job teaching in a community college, but that would be about it. Mind you, I have never had Professor Bizarro as a professor for any of the classes I've taken, I've never worked with him on any committees, projects, or anything else. Never mind all of that though, because Professor Bizarro knows ALLLLLLLLLL. Welcome to PhD attitude.

Combine Professor Bizarro's unprofessional and rude behavior with what I heard about the academic profession from Professor New Guy yesterday and I have determined that almost all PhDs are just whiny, baby-ass, martyrs without an audience. Why, oh why, do most people who have the intellectual ability to accomplish great things end up being some of the most anti-social, disgusting, and pitiful human beings who roam this Earth? Why can't they just realize how fortunate they are? I mean, I have lived my entire life around people in much more desperate situations than these whiny PhDs and yet those people still manage to find some joy and pleasure in life. ARGHHHHHH!!!!

So, since I have mounted the Soapbox for my inaugural back-to-school rant, I want to say to all PhDs out there...QUIT YOUR COMPLAINING AND LEARN HOW TO BE A REAL PERSON! DO NOT ASK ME WHAT I AM GOING TO DO IF YOU JUST WANT TO STOMP ON ME!

And, since I am the bitch tonight, I will tell y'all what I am going to do...I am going to prove all these fucks wrong. Yep, I am going to go to grad school and get that PhD and not be like them and land a fantabulous position at Some Important University and do great work and publish amazing things and when people ask me about my experience at GVSU with certain faculty in the history department, I'll just say that martyrdom breeds contempt and contempt breeds misery and no one should be subject to a contemptuous, miserable martyr.

Thank God in glorious Heaven that I am almost done with GVSU!