Fucking school...
I've been in school for one year now, and thanks to summer school, CLEP test, and several attempts at breaking my hopeless addiction to sleep (almost successful, by most accounts) I'm a matter of weeks away from being a senior. I'll be graduating a year from now with my first degree (Bachelor of Sciences in Mathematics), I'm already getting started on graduate courses... basically, I'm the sick fuck who burns through everything like it's no problem and chews through books like crack, and after countless empty promises and useless people the university cannot keep up with me. I knew all along that I should have gone somewhere else, but I didn't because this school was good enough - which is true, the staff is great but they're still a little low on math and physics faculty because everyone wants to be either a Marketing major dipshit or a pre-med Biology wanker.
So for this summer I'm starting on this graduate course in cryptography and getting an independent study done for vector calculus, and with other stuff I'm enrolled in a grand total of 18 hours this term... which is honestly what I've been waiting for pretty much as long as I've been in school. Problem is, there's bureaucracy - paperwork to fill out, advisors and administrators to put up with, days spent running around campus trying to get signatures, assholes questioning me every step of the way as if I don't know what the fuck I'm doing (Are you sure you want to take these? Isn't that a bit much for a summer? Have you considered taking a break? Can you really handle all of this), blood tests, approval from the Intergalactic Fuck You Commission... fresh orders of hell every hour on the hour and it's still not over (less than a week before the term starts) because the university is full of shit and enrolling for classes is like juggling flaming swords with no arms. Every minute of my education has been some asshole holding me back while I just decide to go off and do my own thing - everything from the bitch librarian at my elementary school deciding that I was too young for the big-kid section, because she just knows better than everyone, to having anyone with a name badge telling me I should slow down because I won't be able to handle all I'm trying to get done, and I just want to kill the next motherfucker who thinks I really need to be asked again whether I'm prepared and confident enough for the next six months. I don't even want to shoot them or stab them or gouge out their eyes and rape their skulls anymore, I want to chain them all to chairs and rip their goddamned arms out and beat them to death with their own dismembered limbs, but I can't because I have two terms to go after this one and assault, mayhem, and first-degree murder charges tend to get in the way of graduate school. I can burn through three years of a 'normal load' in one but I'm too fucking stupid to know how many classes I should take - fuck it, someone just needs to die for this.
On top of that, I'm simply no longer able to sit quietly and deal with people any more and it's starting to show. I've always been surrounded by dumbasses who want to keep me stupid, out of fear or jealousy or sheer unfettered incompetence, and I've dealt with phony smiles and as much courtesy as I could handle and just kept the panic attacks and violent breaks as far away as I could, but I can't deal with the shit anymore and I just don't put up with bullshit anymore. I'm fine with most people, as those who still talk to me know what they're in for and try to not say anything stupid, but I only have to lose my temper and start screaming once or twice before all of a sudden I'm off my rocker and a case that should be handled in an insane asylum... because I *really* need more sitting around bored in an empty rooms and being asked "How do you feel? Are you all right?" every hour of the day... and the VT shootings didn't help, and the fact that I'm very vocally against gun control laws doesn't help, and when people put two and two together they decide to take it upon themselves to tell me that I'm stressed because I'm overworked and I just need to lay back and cut down on the schedule or get laid or spend time knitting or hug people more often or some stupid bullshit like that. Nobody seems to think I know what I'm talking about when I say that I get more stressed out by inactivity than by being stimulated and challenged, and that I scream because it's an outlet and not because I want attention (if I wanted attention I'd do it out in the open, not hiding in a closet or an elevator or an office or my car, fucking dipshits), and I'm 'inconsiderate' and 'rude' when I tell people to fuck off if they're not going to try to figure out what's going on before telling me how to live.
Hopefully it's not like this everywhere else, I just won't survive if the rest of the country and the rest of the world expect stupidity and are scared of people who want to get away from the fat, lazy, ignorant jackass who sits around jacking off and watching American Idol. People make me sick sometimes.
Jeff