Things that never happened.
In high school I had a buddy who was super into music and got a gig writing reviews for new albums.
I found and memorized an entire review, word for word (at least 1000 words), and set up my one other buddy to ask me if I’d heard of the album casually at lunch.
I only got partway through the second sentence before my buddy was like “oh my god fuck you” and got up and left. It was such an incredible waste of memorization.
I cringe because of how shitty it was to do… I really did/do love the guy. But, if this is the worst “boys will be boys” that I had out of high school I think I did ok.
That’s kind of a really good prank, but I see how, depending on the context, it could’ve been taken the wrong way.
I remember that I also had a period when I was way too uptight and couldn’t take a joke from a friend. Over time I’ve started realising that the less seriously you take yourself, the easier time you’ll have.
Was it really that shitty though? You engaged his work in a fun way. You weren’t making fun of his work or him but rather just teasing him. Of course the joke/prank was funny but if I was him I would also feel happy that a buddy read at least one of my articles, even for a laugh.
The ego of a teenage boy is actually pretty fragile, and he had really put himself out there.
As a mostly-fully-formed adult with a mostly-fully-formed identity, totally agree with you. Sometimes I forget how vulnerable we were as children.
If I could do it over again, I’d still do it, I’d just have somehow made it clear I was impressed by what he’d done, and wasn’t mocking him for doing it.
Thanks for cutting me some slack on this, though.
I used to do this to teachers I didn’t like in high school. My biology teacher eventually just let me sleep in class to avoid it.
So you used to research the topic and become overly familiar with it to the point you could recite answers and ask pertinent questions. And your teacher gave you a pass on sleeping becuase they rightly realized you were… now hear me out on this… doing the work and educating yourself. You sure got one up on those bad teachers! ;)
There is no such thing as teaching, only learning and spite.
I’ve myself started teaching some years ago and came to conclusion that shitty teachers that I had in school still taught me a very important lesson - how NOT to do teaching.
Thats the lesson my father taught me about parenting.
Exactly how I coped with having the administrator responsible for discipline as a history teacher in high school. Dude was my nemesis for three years. So I decided the best way to fight back was to be the best student in his class.
Wound up on friendly terms after I was out of school.
He played the long game.
learning by annoying?
Learning out of spite
Malicious self-improvement
It’s the only real reason to learn. Stay in school, kids. Spitefully.
Malicious learning
Petty learning
I credit spite with a lot of my will to have finished my bachelor’s
now if i can just figure out how to get hired spitefully…
That’s how people get PhDs
And everybody clapped!
