Hmmm... Are the people at Cal--i.e. your fellow graduates students--different? Are they haughty? Act as though they are the smartest people in the world? Hmmm... Not that it would comfort you, I did not have too many friends at Stanford either. I made a bunch of friends at UCLA so I may have a different perspective, but I think it was an age thing as I was much older than my peers, and I lived a different lifestyle. They were so studious and serious, and all I wanted to do was drink and talk about poetry. But I learned to get along. I hope you will too.
Haha you kinda nailed it right on the head there... well I kinda feel like they have a right to be though and they are smarter than me, but they've also had more school than me to this point, so I'm done feeling bad about not knowing everything, I'm here to learn and that's that. Speaking of drinking and talking about poetry, we're going to be doing that next week with Tabito's poems about sake from vol. 3 of the Man'yoshu. I'm very excited :) It's not that I'm not getting along with my fellow grad students... but it kinda seems like the opposite that I'm younger than the rest of them and looking for a friend and none of them seem quite interested... or that's how it was last semester. Now I'm looking for friends elsewhere... since Japanese lit grad students turn out to be not that friendly. haha
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