The Doctorate Fiasco

East Carolina really is the perfect place for a slacker like me... I'm a different type of slacker than most where, some days, I can be a really studious person and get everything done (like today, been up since 5:30 AM and haven't stopped moving until just now) but then I have my days (or weeks) where I'm just on some other shit and the only thing I want to do is play 360, talk to my girl, watch TV, etc. And ECU lends me the opportunity to do that without much penalty... I mean, I can't just straight up stop working but I can slow down considerably without my grade suffering too much during the periods of time where I wanna be a lazy bum... it's not a Shaw where you can basically bullshit your way to a B with the right professor without technically doing any work and it's also not a Carolina where you have damn-near kill yourself to earn an 85 on something... ECU is the perfect equilibrium for me...

In fact, it's perfect for a lot of things... if you wanna be that A student that's all about academics, you can do that... if you wanna be that dude that goes out every night and parties, you can do that... if you wanna bag a white chick, black chick, Asian chick, Spanish broad, they're all here... most classes aren't that big and most professors are cool as shit...

But the one thing that I can say about ECU (I'm not sure how much this happens at other schools) is the prevalence of snobbiness coming from people with PhD's... this blog stems from a past professor I ran into today... I only remember her because we got into it one day when I called her "Professor" instead of "Doctor," her seemingly appropriate title... at first, it was just an honest mistake... I mean, if you wanna be called that, then cool but it was the way she looked at me when she corrected me... I might as well have called her a bitch or something... so after that, I made it a point to ALWAYS call her "Professor" just to be an asshole and each time she would correct me with that same look on her face...

And this shit concerns me... ok, granted, you went to school for 'x' amount of years and now you've earned your little doctorate but is it really that big a deal? I mean, really...??? Nobody else does this shit... my mom is a manager but I don't see her making people call her Manager McAllister... she's just Ms. Lisa... and it's just the air with which these people act like they've done something so amazing that only they could do it... it's not like the pope or something... like there's only ONE pope (I think... you have to forgive me if this is incorrect) but like if I watch the news, and I see the hat, the robe I'm like "oh ok, that's THE pope..." People get their PhD every year... LOL... to act that snobby, you would think it would be something that nobody else could accomplish...

In any event, I came across this lady today and she said "Hello, Mr. Hedgepeth, how goes everything...?" I took off my headphones, looked her dead in the face and replied "Everything's good, Professor..." then I put my headphones back on and laughed my ass off all the way to Spanish class...


The fuck outta here...





Ya'll be easy...