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At the Student Center, amidst throngs of people. Her two friends consoled her.

Her test went poorly, apparently.

The next twenty minutes were spent tearily complaining about the test and the teacher and her other classes. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this.

People pay money to feel shitty, because feeling shitty is — via masochism (or is it machismo?) — is seen as a necessary consequence of doing something hard. This in turn does a tremendous disservice to the vigor of their relationship with learning.

Not that there’s anything new here.

On the craziness feeling guilty about not doing homework:

B: I think I can get paid [by MIT, via scholarship] $2000 per semester to feel guilty.

G: I can’t even calculate the probability of like a roll of the die. I’m just praying I didn’t fail.

Is that for a good reason? Is it annoying, to you guys? If so, let me know.

Until then, all posts beginning with “comment:” will be exactly that: comments I’ve posted elsewhere, linked and recorded. It’ll even have its own category, along with a newly created category for all those “overheard” posts.