I rarely dislike people a lot, it doesn’t happen to me that often. There are people I find frustrating or annoying, but dislike is something entirely different.
But there is this one person in my program I can’t stand. They (I know I’m using a plural pronoun, but I don’t want to give many clues to who this person is) think they know absolutely everything and think they are too good to talk in class because all of us other underlings are too stupid. They mock those who contribute to the class, making fun of them in the halls by name, saying that their contributions are so stupid and that they can’t bring themselves to contribute. They aren’t interested in helping others learn or sharing knowledge, but having a sense of arrogance and superiority. For what? I watched one of their presentations and it was so badly put together, incoherent, and was a total disgrace. And I thought, really? After all this talk, this is what your genius came up with? And their excuse was that they didn’t prepare and gave up half way through. Well then, you could have tried and exhibited a sense of determination, but instead you gave up.
Suffice it to say, I dislike this person. They don’t seem prepared and they think that because they are so smart they don’t feel they need to be prepared or do the work.
And I wonder, how did they become like this? Did people just think they were so phenomenal that no one ever said, you can’t really keep going like this? And to some degree, that’s true. Some other of my friends think they are so smart and are intimidated. They think that just because they know theory or philosophy that it means they are on top of us all.
I’m not stupid, but I don’t flaunt my intelligence around. I’ve spent, now, five years studying literature and theory. It’s not like I know nothing.
I usually don’t let it get to me, or even think about it, except when it’s brought up to me in a story my friend tells about this person.
It’s not even worth my energy to dislike this person, except I don’t spend too much energy on it. I know I’ll move on, because I have many things to do and a lot of work, but it irks me.
And so I have ranted, and that’s the end of it.