A teacher once said to me, for acting antisocial: “if you keep pushing people away: one day, they’ll just leave you alone”
I wasn’t doing it for attention. I’m very glad to be largely left alone now. It’s great.
I would also be completely confused and offended for the rest of my life if a teacher had said something like that to me
I was grateful that my teachers were chill with this
I’d finish my math work while the teacher was still explaining it to the class, and just start reading a book. Teacher was fine with it because I was a good student and got good grades.
Rant incoming
Although I do have one particular gripe with that teacher unrelated to any of that. Question was how far was a person in a pool from the life guard on a life guard tower. I found the hypotenuse, moved on to other questions. Got marked wrong so I brought it up to the teacher, and her explanation was that she wanted the distance from the person to the tower (the BOTTOM of the tower???) under the logic that you wouldn’t just float on up in a straight line to the life guard. First of all, the question was specifically worded as distance from person to life guard, NOT travel distance. Secondly to the BOTTOM of the life guard tower??? You wanted that value, not even the added distance of the length to the bottom of the tower and the length to climb the tower???
If you asked me how far away a plane in the sky is from me, and I answered 5 feet, I’d look like a damn idiot.
I kind of wish I pushed her on that question harder. I kind of just thought “good lord she’s out of her mind” and sat back down because it had little to no impact on my grade. But I have lived years being pissed about getting that question wrong, I simply cannot move on from it.
don’t worry random-internet-person, I just graded your answer and found that you were correct and that other person grading you was wrong.
so you know, you can move on now?
Could be worse. I once received a Saturday detention for “defiance” because I pointed out a mistake the teacher had made on an algebra problem.
In 2nd grade I decided one day to just complete my entire 2nd grade math book because it was easy for me at the time. Their solution was to force me to go into a third grade class for math but I quit because it meant I lost one of my recesses and thought that was bullshit. Honestly, surprised no one followed up and forced me to go back at any point. I just stopped going and no one said anything.
This could be a nice lesson about the taxicab metric and the Euclidean metric, but that doesn’t seem like the intention.
Its because teachers hate the idea that a smart student isn’t enthusiastic about the topic they’re teaching and that they’d do clearly what is their bare minimum and then mentally drop out. Its insecurity.
I had a ton of teachers like this.
Reminds me of one of my elementary school English teachers. We were all given a blank hardcover book and had to make a story with illustrations. Mine was called “The Loose Kitty”. Every page basically had the kitty on the loose in different areas of a city, running into other animals that had some rhyming. I spent so much time with the art, proofing it, etc. This teacher took hard red ink and strikes through loose and put “lost” ON EVERY PAGE. I tried to tell her no it is loose because EVERYTHING IN THE BOOK related to being “on the loose”. Nope. Got like a C- on that thing.
Am I still sour about it 30 years later? Yes, I still loose my shit.
to be fair she probably understood the concept of a kitten on the loose, but wanted to nudge you away from filling your book with innuendo without having to explain the concept of an un-tight and/or readily available vagina
Not all who wander are lost, bitch.
Sound’s like your an pour loster.
My HS football coach once called me the dumbest smart kid he’d ever met because I kept mixing up my assignments for each play. Highest GPA on the team…
Didn’t get my ADHD diagnosis until I was 39, lol
I had a similar problem.
Once, in school, i did all my homework fast. We had a week to do it, i handed it in after a day only. The teacher saw that, thought i’m very interested or that they give us too little homework, and then increased homework for me and everyone else. I learned not to do things quickly. It will only backfire.
This is the way.
Don’t procrastinate the work…just procrastinate the turn-in.
This way, you can feign being busy and be done at the same time! Nobody needs to know that you’re done. That means you can slack off right up until the last possible second, completely stress-free.
If you start showing your hand, they’re gonna start expecting more from you. And what will you get in return? Maybe an extra 0.5% on your raise? Nah brah. Keep it. 0.5% on 100k is $500/yr. Is less than $10/wk…after taxes, they barely bought you a coffee every week.
By all means…work at a medium pace while you’re new. Don’t want to get caught while you’re still green. But once you’re comfortable in a place…
I did a pretty similar thing in school. I was playing a LOT of World of Warcraft and I was in raiding guilds with consistent and long raid times. So I’d go out of my way to get as much of my schoolwork done ahead of time as possible. I’d eat in class so I could work on my HW during lunch, I’d get like a week ahead on any work that I was able to such as reading textbook chapters. All so that I could make sure I never missed a raid night.
Unfortunately this kind of all fell apart in senior year of HS. WAAAAAAY too much work to ever keep up, so I had to stop playing.
Unfortunately? I’d call that fortunate. Glad you made it out of WoW alive
I’m “lazy” in that same way and I always bring it up when I’m asked what my strengths are in interviews. I don’t like doing unnecessary work. I will be the one automating tasks and finding more efficient ways to do things while other people are wasting their time doing it the long way, purely because I want to waste less time on it.
My professional burden has been saddled with people who want applause for taking twice as long to less than 50% of the same amount. And those numbers are probably generous.
I’ve always been like this. I power through all the work (school, chores, etc.) just so I can have the free time to do nothing. My ultimate goal has always been to clear my schedule so I can decide what to do with my time.
I think I overdid it. I retired at 38 years old and I’ve now spent the last 4 years sitting around my house with all the free time I can imagine.
me to teacher: well that just makes you a shitty teacher then, doesn’t it?
Why the fuck would you do it any other way? A teacher once called me a minimalist, because I always did the bare minimum to not fail. I still don’t see that as a negative comment.
I see why you would be working as an electrician.
JK, I’m the same way. I’m fast and good at my job and that’s why I’m not cheap.
I used to sleep in class. But only after doing all of my work. I had ONE teacher who agreed that as long as the work got done, and I wasn’t disturbing anybody else, she would let me sleep.
~Of course she was a first year teacher, so she probably didn’t know better.~
The only way it makes any sense is if you did it quickly and sloppily.
If you were doing it quickly and to anything approaching a reasonable approximation of ‘your best’, then the teacher was just frustrated that the work was too easy for you any they hated seeing anyone getting a break but they saw no way to give you more work than the other kids. Most likely because they were too lazy to come up with a good tiered lesson plan.
I had something similar in elementary school. There was an assignment given and something like 2 hours to do it. The reward was extra recess time. I saw the exercise knew I could do it quickly so I screwed around for about 1 hour and 50 minutes. The teacher saw this and commented on it. In the last 10 minutes I blasted out the assignment, handing it in when everyone else did. I received a passing grade on the assignment. The teacher stopped me anyway from getting the extra recess time because she didn’t like that I spent so little time on the assignment even though I completed it sufficiently.
I stopped trusting teachers for years because of that and so no reason to put in full effort when arbitrarily applied rules would take away the rewards anyway. That didn’t mean I didn’t put effort into learning, it just didn’t really care about scoring well or doing assignments. I’d do well on tests, but had low grades from simply not completing or not turning in homework. Occasionally I’d even do the homework if I was working on grasping the concept being taught, but I didn’t see a point of even turning those in many times even though they were complete.
Or I can just do nothing anyway and then feel bad about it 😎
I basically did the same, except I front-loaded all of the hard work into the first 18 years of my life.
I’ve said for years that efficiency is just high functioning laziness. So long as you got the job done and done right or to your best ability, you did it perfectly no matter how long it took you. If you have time to spare, that is your time to do with as you please. Fuck anyone that says it is your responsibility to maximize production after your requirements are met.
