Sarah Gray

Where Has All the Authenticity Gone?

It's all Bullshit; Nancy in Stranger Things Season Two had it right. Let me start off by saying I'm a student, trying to get an engineering degree, in my senior year of college, dealing with people all day, every day. I have to make pointless small talk with people who I will never see again after I graduate, I have to be polite to people who are rude to me at my student job, and I have to deal with professors who think giving 4 group projects, 3 assignments, and 1 presentation in the last few weeks of the semester is fair before having to take 3 final exams. I deal with all of these people because I have to; because I'm spending thousands upon thousands of dollars of my own money (not my parents') to get this engineering degree in order to find a job and develop a functional life for myself after college. I deal with these people because it's part of being a human being; providing others with courtesy even if you don't think they deserve it.