Haven't I seen you before?

[kellinator]

You know the real reason I hate having to ride the damn shuttle bus? Beyond the crowds, beyond the jostling, beyond the additional drain on my already-stretched time, beyond the sheer insult of paying that much money to park in a deck two miles from my workplace?

It's because it brings me in close proximity to the undergraduates.

Yes, I bitch about the law students. I find more than a few of them spoiled and bratty. I hate the way they look at me, or rather look through me. To them, I'm not a real human being; I'm a shadow entity, a piece of the scenery who occasionally infringes on their God-given right to break library rules by telling them they can't eat in the library. But, you know, at least they work hard. I can respect that. As far as I can tell, all the undergrads do is drink, spend their daddy's money, go to frat parties, gossip about each other, and strategically arrange themselves on the shuttle buses so that the people trying to actually get to work have to stand on top of each other.

I used to pass those people every day at Vanderbilt. The rich, thin, perfect people. But they really didn't bother me that much, because I was on my way to one of my honors English classes and I was going to go to grad school and be a brilliant professor. Now I see them walk by, and I think that in five years they'll be working for Daddy's company and driving SUVs that cost more than I make in a year, and where will I be?

Comments

[polychromatic22.livejournal.com]

You can't really judge your own success based on someone elses. Just like you can't judge your happiness with someone elses.
You are a unique person (just like everyone else) and whether you are successful or happy is something you will have to measure within your own life, to your own standards.

[buzz.livejournal.com]

Now I see them walk by, and I think that in five years they'll be working for Daddy's company and driving SUVs that cost more than I make in a year

Which is why you MUST slay them now before they can pollute the gene pool!

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

Bah! They are nothing compared to the Queen of Snark!

You rock, whereas they both suck AND blow.

And count yourself lucky -- I have to work with the undergrads here every freakin' day!!

[sharrainchains.livejournal.com]

Even when I was in law school, I felt invisible most of the time! But you are not: you are more experienced and probably mentally, emotionally, creatively, and morally superior to most of them. As a result, their pitifully stressed little egos just won't allow them to cope with the magnifence that is the Queen of Snark.

[rocketmelee.livejournal.com]

Someplace better (even if not *financially* better). And, unlike them, you won't be shallow and bored, either.

[stevenglassman.livejournal.com]

Now I see them walk by, and I think that in five years they'll be working for Daddy's company and driving SUVs that cost more than I make in a year, and where will I be?

Location doesn't matter. You'll still have a soul. More than can be said for lots of them.

[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

They will have money, but they're shallow and insipid. Feel morally superior because you have a personality and an intellect. I mean, really, they're largely fuckwits. Practice failing to suppress the urge to roll your eyes, huff at them and look pained by their utter venality and lameness.

And you'll hopefully be either working in a place you like more, or doing something else that will make you happy. Besides, working for Daddy's company means swallowing any semblance of pride, wearing a shit-eating grin when you disagree with Dad, and possibly necessitating some form of better living through chemistry, legal or otherwise (but not medically necessary). See, they might have the SUV, but they'll either have a Xanax addiction or a hole worn through their nasal cartilage from all the coke and speed they do to make Daddy happy.

Don't you feel better now? ;P

the more things change, the more they stay the same.

[idioticpoet.livejournal.com]

People are people, so why should it be.....

Honestly, the student body down there, could be easily swapped for the one here at MSU.

The only difference- we've got more cold weather gear in our wardrobes.

the ever so infamous 'what now?' complex

[la-poubelle.livejournal.com]

I feel for ya I really do. Not because I understand completly what you're going through, not because I feel the same way every morning I step on the D shuttle, but because from what I see the only solution to feeling better lies in getting away from Emory.

I feel the same way. Maybe you need to look at your job and say "Am I happy here?" And if you aren't then its up to you to move on. I've figured out 2 things since I've been here. 1. I don't like anything about Emory. 2. I miss getting dressed up to go to work and feeling somewhat important.

This is getting too long.

[tyrantmouth.livejournal.com]

and where will I be?

Leading a far more fulfilling, real, fabulous life than that vapid lot, I promise you.

If nothing else, you'll be hanging around with me, and that's something those kids will never get. So there. ;)

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

You know, you will be wherever you wish to be, based on the effort you put into it, and the obstacles you overcome. At least you won't have this knowledge in the back of you're head that you're just a hollow tool who did nothing but take handouts from your rich parents.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Where you will be is where you should be: someplace where you can make a living without losing your self-respect, or your soul. They, on the other hand, never had either of those things to begin with.

[mizdandylynn.livejournal.com]

Ah... but you, missy, are surrounded by friends and have fun. You pack more fun in life than they will ever know with the plastic little selves. What they do is not fun... it is.. I don't even know how to describe it.