Re: getting along with people …how?

[Anonymous]

I face a mixture of ranting way too much, when I actually feel the person is intelligent or more intelligent than me, to keeping my head down and moving as rapidly as possible in order to avoid anyone’s attention. While in graduate school, I became very upset when our professor told the class “if you would actually focus, you would know this…”. Indeed, I got up and left class asap, though knowing the information, and later returned. After class, I explained how her comments affected me and that I would appreciate it if she would never say anything like that again while I was in her class. Her jaw dropped and she gathered the words “I didn’t realize…it wasn’t just to you…I apologize and didn’t mean for it…”

A few comments above address forgetting peoples’ names and/or faces, thank goodness I am not the only one:0) I do it all the time. During my first semester of graduate school while giving a presentation on legal issues, I called everyone in the room by the wrong name including our professor. During my presentation, I was wondering why the group would chuckle. Upon returning to my seat, there was a seating chart with everyone’s name placed atop the desk. Hilarious!!! Made an “A” on all presentations and in the course as well. Intelligent but lacking with the minute details;0P

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