Education

So with the big game coming up, obviously the ESPN message boards are full of kids who think they are right and everyone else is wrong. Naturally, the mudslinging goes beyond which team is better or worse, and descends into baseless ad hominem insults. While no one ever likes baseless ad hominem insults, a certain brand of it does get under my skin more than others.

"it is 'their nails' not 'there nails'. Quality education THERE in Lubbock , huh?"

Just what does something like that accomplish? Nitpicking grammar has nothing to do with any argument anyone has put forth. Its one use is distracting people from the fact that you have no real counter-argument, with the bonus side-effect of making you look like a douche.

But here's the real reason I dislike these kinds of attacks. As many people either know or believe, Texas Tech is not the most well-respected academic institution. Does this mean you can't get a quality education there? Of course not. I happen to believe that you get out of education what you put into it. For example, I typically put forth B-level effort, and expect B-level results (on a side note, I seem to be failing at this, because I've been getting a lot of A's...).

What bugs me about this is the people who make two assumptions: (1) There are no smart people at Tech. This is just about the stupidest thing you can say. I can almost guarantee that the proportion of smart people to stupid people is virtually identical for Tech and UT. (2) Tech fans who make grammar mistakes on the internet make them because of their Texas Tech education. This actually is the stupidest thing you can say. For anyone who thinks that, I will tell you the reason Tech fans on the internet make grammatical and spelling errors: it's the internet. No one give a shit about spelling on the internet. Look at Wikipedia. Or Youtube. Or any fucking website on earth. You will see that people git they're spelings meessed up becuz their on the intarnet.

Anywho. On a tangentially related note, I counted how many times my international relations professor said "shit" in class today. Five times. She's pretty crazy.

Thanks if you read any/all of this. See you soon. :)