Monday, April 22, 2002
Ten Step Spring Semester Syndrome Checklist
1. Receive miscellaneous assignments and due dates. [check]
2. Ignore miscellaneous assignments until the due dates are almost tangibly close. [check]
4. Receive even more miscellaneous assignments and due dates. [check]
5. Procrastinate about those too [check] until you feel the pressure of such projects hanging over your head and start to get stressed. [check]
6. Rapidly finish all last-minute miscellaneous assignments within the span of a week or two and turn them in on the due dates. [check]
7. Experience a few days of giddy relief and productivity because all of the assignments are finally out of your hands. [check]
8. Crash from exhaustion. [check]
9. Sleep for a day. [check]
10. Wake up the next morning anticipating summer more than you ever have in your life.
I should complete the entire SSS cycle by tomorrow.
So, how about those personality quizzes? I picked this one up from Natasha's blog.
You are an Intellect
If you were one of Charlie's Angels, you'd definitely be Sabrina, the brains behind the operation. Besides the fact that you're well-read and have an insatiable desire to learn, you can hold your own in any intellectual sparring match. With a wall full of diplomas, or at least a few in the works, your hobbies and interests reflect your intelligence. Whether you're reading the New York Times or catching up on the latest independent film, it's clear that your wheels are always spinning. You probably aced your SATs, tend to scoff at "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (even though you know all the answers), and kick butt at Trivial Pursuit. Guys love the challenge of trying to seduce you. Your brainpower drives them crazy, and you're smart enough to know that it puts you in the driver's seat.
Right. THIS was shocking, let me tell you. (Sarcasm? What sarcasm?) But let's examine a couple of lines.
Guys love the challenge of trying to seduce you. Your brainpower drives them crazy, and you're smart enough to know that it puts you in the driver's seat.
Allow me to respond to that with a resounding, unintellectual: WHATever. Obviously the creators of this quiz were not Intellects (big surprise there), nor do they remember the typical mindset of high school and college age guys. Because, from all my experience -- which, granted, is not much, but I've been rejected a couple of times; I get the idea -- most guys do not appear to be particularly "driven crazy" by intelligence. They seem to have no interest in the "challenge" of attracting a smart girl; they'd much rather "just be friends" and use you for your homework. Even the equally brainy guys, who claim that intelligence is their number one factor in a romantic relationship, seem to be very wary of girls who are as smart as (or smarter than) they are. Guys in my age group are simply immature. Intelligence doesn't so much attract them as it intimidates them. And my best friend wonders why I don't have a boyfriend. I personally see little or no point in it. This is why I probably won't date much until I'm, like, twenty-five. I get to wait around while the boys grow up.
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