The Faculties.
Each one comes with a preexisting connotation. You picked Arts, it means you don't know what to do with yourself and are looking to coast. You picked Science, you're a nerd who wants to go to Med school. You picked Engineering, you can drink lots of beer and do lots of math. At the same time. You picked H.Kin, you're lacking brains, but not brawn. You picked Forestry, you're a tree-hugger destined for hippie-ship. You picked Commerce, you're headed down a useless and redundant path, and carry annoying clipboards. There are, of course, other faculties, but these are the ones that get the main attention, and the main stereotyping.
However, no one person from any faculty embodies the stereotype cast upon them by each other faculty. In fact, in my experience, Science kids, although they work their asses off, are not all nerds, and some of them are even as aimless as (gasp) Arts kids. Then there are the Arts students who actually know what they want to do with their lives, and are completely brilliant at whatever they're taking. Personally, of course, Engineers are my least favorite, and, like Saskatchewan, bear the brunt of my completely unwarranted and inexplicable hatred. Although I hate no specific Engineering students, as a whole I find them arrogant, annoying, and I hate those goddamn prestigious red jackets. You aren't a Varsity sports team. Not all H.Kin kids are built, ex-high school Football players (by the way, you actually have to be pretty intelligent to make it there), nor are all Commerce kids are delusional (but, yeah, they all carry those clipboards). And Forestry peeps aren't all tree hugging hippies who hang out on Rec Beach. All of this anyone could tell you, and yet we all make fun of each other using these exact stereotypes, and come to University fully expecting each faculty to (apparently) contain thousands of the same person.
What each Faculty does come with, however, is that same arrogance I hate in Engineers. Everyone boasts they belong to the best strain - Commerce bears it in their clipboards, Engineering in their (ridiculous) red jackets and elitist attitudes, Science by burying their heads relentlessly in text books because they "have to", Arts by (mostly) doing just about nothing academic and dressing with superior style (mostly), H. Kin by religiously attending the church known as "Golds", and Forestry by sailing right under the radar... and not even caring one bit about it.
And that is all absolutely the truth.
Monday, December 1, 2008
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