Obnoxious Classmates
Hello all of you lovely figures, I've quite a conundrum on my hands.
Said classmate is obnoxious to the point that she thinks that she is doing other people a favor by deigning to talk to them. I wish she wouldn't feel so obliged to talk to me. Not only does she seek me out and talk to me while I am trying to actually take notes because I like this class, but she's also arrogant and deprecating. Just because she happens to hail from a large midwestern city on the south shore of Lake Michigan and decided to blow her daddy's money by attending a big ten school right out of high school doesn't mean that I who grew up in a dinky little farming town and went to a junior college where I got my Associate's before transferring to said big ten school, because the junior college gave me a full ride for those two years, am somehow inferior to her. Indeed, not only did I transfer to said big hotshot university with a perfect GPA, but I also received a tuition assistance scholarship from the junior college wherein they give me a set amount of money per year to get my master's and I come back and teach at full-time salary for two and a half years to pay them back (and may apply for tenure at the end of those five sememsters). What makes me most angry are two little things she does ALL THE BLOODY TIME. 1) Asking if she can come see my parents' new house off the golf course and 2) Condescendingly referring to my future job as "high school teaching", implying that the institution I attended for two years is a second class piece of crap. She really ought to shut up about it because every single class I took at this school transferred to my current institution of learning whereas the classes she took over the summer at another big four-year school close to her home didn't transfer at all.
So, do I a) give in to my original compulsion and just throttle her, b) ignore her and hope she goes away, c) snark at her (which probably won't do any good as I doubt she'd comprehend what I'm saying) or d) ... have you any better ideas?
Please, do weigh in on this and I apologize for the strongly abrasive tone of my little tangent. Sometimes I just have to let it all out.
Said classmate is obnoxious to the point that she thinks that she is doing other people a favor by deigning to talk to them. I wish she wouldn't feel so obliged to talk to me. Not only does she seek me out and talk to me while I am trying to actually take notes because I like this class, but she's also arrogant and deprecating. Just because she happens to hail from a large midwestern city on the south shore of Lake Michigan and decided to blow her daddy's money by attending a big ten school right out of high school doesn't mean that I who grew up in a dinky little farming town and went to a junior college where I got my Associate's before transferring to said big ten school, because the junior college gave me a full ride for those two years, am somehow inferior to her. Indeed, not only did I transfer to said big hotshot university with a perfect GPA, but I also received a tuition assistance scholarship from the junior college wherein they give me a set amount of money per year to get my master's and I come back and teach at full-time salary for two and a half years to pay them back (and may apply for tenure at the end of those five sememsters). What makes me most angry are two little things she does ALL THE BLOODY TIME. 1) Asking if she can come see my parents' new house off the golf course and 2) Condescendingly referring to my future job as "high school teaching", implying that the institution I attended for two years is a second class piece of crap. She really ought to shut up about it because every single class I took at this school transferred to my current institution of learning whereas the classes she took over the summer at another big four-year school close to her home didn't transfer at all.
So, do I a) give in to my original compulsion and just throttle her, b) ignore her and hope she goes away, c) snark at her (which probably won't do any good as I doubt she'd comprehend what I'm saying) or d) ... have you any better ideas?
Please, do weigh in on this and I apologize for the strongly abrasive tone of my little tangent. Sometimes I just have to let it all out.