benlehman

I like my classes, and my teachers, quite a bit. The pace should be pretty good. We'll see (gotta go study now, actually.)

I have one classmate for both of my non-individual classes who is ... a Yalie. With all that implies (basically, an entitled dick.) He spent the entireity of the two classes complaining about how they're beneath him*. I'm trying to decide if I should complain and try to get one of my sections changed so I have to deal with him less or if I should just suck it up and deal.

Advice?

* Topics of complaint: I'm really too smart to be in this class, traditional characters are hard, why can I be in (other, much harder class that he's clearly not qualified for), I don't see why we should have to concentrate on speaking ability (in broken, non-grammatical language with poor pronunciation), I already studied this topic before (in language that shows that his vocabulary on the topic is insufficient to talk at this level), with a brief break for "well, some American students have pronunciation problems, but anyone who went to Yale or Harvard** is just fine."

** Students who go to these two schools have infamously bad pronunciation.