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[hawkwing_lb]

I am, it appears, not marvellously eloquent, nor marvellously articulate of late. Nor, indeed, a scintillating conversationalist.

I'm awkard, and inarticulate, and undereducated in entirely too many things. And I'm tall enough to loom over most of my mates, which is disconcerting at the least.

*sigh*

Oh, and I'm supposed to be a responsible adult, too. How weird is that?

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[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

I noticed that when I was spending a lot of time doing heavy thinking and cramming that my mental powers (such as they are) were greatly diminished. As if only so much energy can be produced by the brain (Scotty! We need more power!) and the dilithium crystals were slowly cracking under the strain.

So, when you are finished with school -- or at least the really intense parts -- you may well find your articulation and eloquence rapidly becoming more scintillating. Undereducation is relative after all, and you will find areas of expertise (or of enthusiasm) as you go along. I myself find engineers and historians quite intimidating, and then I remind myself of the surgeries I've performed and I don't feel so small.

Responsible adulthood is probably never going to feel right. I still catch myself thinking that I can fake it really well, but one of these days I'm going to get caught pretending to be an adult..and then all heck will break loose. Just don't tell anyone.

;-)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I didn't think I was thinking that much. :P (Haven't started revising again yet: that's for next week.)

I keep running into smart educated people. Well, lecturers. And I have this unfortunate craving to know stuff. And not sound stupid in public. :)

I won't tell if you won't. :P

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

The craving to know stuff, well -- that's why you're in uni, eh? The hardest lesson for me to learn, since I was one of those know-it-all kids (corrected teachers' spelling errors all the time, etc., etc.) was how to ask questions. After all, smart people have the answers, right?

Well, not exactly. When you reach a certain point, you switch from demonstrating your smarts by "having answers" to "having questions". That means the smart people are the ones asking all the questions. It's a different frame of mind.

As for lecturers, just remember this: they spend a lot of time thinking and talking about those topics, so they're going to sound very smart indeed. I'll bet a good question will get them thinking, and when they start thinking, they're going to be saying "Um" and repeating themselves too. ;-)

I'm not telling anyone anything. :-)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

:)