So this semester I'm taking Intensive Japanese Level 2 (Japanese 246) at my university. I decided to look at some of the RateMyProfessor reviews for this professor (lol) to see what I could expect, and I found this gem.
I read this the night before the first day of class so I was a little bit skeptical about the person's apparent bias, but this reviewer was about to be vindicated. First day of class, as I sit down, the girl in front of me reaches out to her friend, makes a cat paw with her hand, and says quite audibly "Nyaaaaaaaa" (meowing in Japanese). my reaction was something along the lines of "you have got to be fucking kidding me". there were other cringey people in the class but none nearly as much as this girl, who unfortunately is also in my discussion section. 2 lecture sections and 4 discussion sections and she has to be in both of them, but it gets even better (worse?).
first thing we do in class is give self-introductions (in japanese). They're supposed to include name, major, year, hometown, and hobbies/things you like to do. The first thing this girl says when it's her turn is "anime daisuki", but she magnificently mangles it and ends up sounding ridiculous. worse, whenever she is called on or answers someone she says "haiiiiiiiii" (yes in japanese) in a super happy super high-pitched voice. pretty much everything she says in japanese is in this tone of voice which keeps making me want to say this to her. You. are. not. an. anime girl. You are a white girl wearing a fuck ton of makeup who can't even pronounce the language correctly.
tldr above review is totally correct because there are other people in the class who are also obviously only in there because of anime and aren't afraid to be obnoxious about it
but wait
there's more
today said girl was talking on the phone in discussion for about 10 minutes, until the TA (who was being far too nice) told her that she couldn't do that in class. Her response? "Sorry, it's my dentist". don't do that in class holy shit, go outside or something
but that wasn't even the main attraction today, that honor goes to another girl who every few minutes kept shouting something along the lines of "I'm so angry right now" and going on about some guy she liked and how she needed to fix it but couldn't fix it and what if he knows she likes him and what if he doesn't like her and what should she do she's so angry I'M SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW
this is gonna be a long semester
I read this the night before the first day of class so I was a little bit skeptical about the person's apparent bias, but this reviewer was about to be vindicated. First day of class, as I sit down, the girl in front of me reaches out to her friend, makes a cat paw with her hand, and says quite audibly "Nyaaaaaaaa" (meowing in Japanese). my reaction was something along the lines of "you have got to be fucking kidding me". there were other cringey people in the class but none nearly as much as this girl, who unfortunately is also in my discussion section. 2 lecture sections and 4 discussion sections and she has to be in both of them, but it gets even better (worse?).
first thing we do in class is give self-introductions (in japanese). They're supposed to include name, major, year, hometown, and hobbies/things you like to do. The first thing this girl says when it's her turn is "anime daisuki", but she magnificently mangles it and ends up sounding ridiculous. worse, whenever she is called on or answers someone she says "haiiiiiiiii" (yes in japanese) in a super happy super high-pitched voice. pretty much everything she says in japanese is in this tone of voice which keeps making me want to say this to her. You. are. not. an. anime girl. You are a white girl wearing a fuck ton of makeup who can't even pronounce the language correctly.
tldr above review is totally correct because there are other people in the class who are also obviously only in there because of anime and aren't afraid to be obnoxious about it
but wait
there's more
today said girl was talking on the phone in discussion for about 10 minutes, until the TA (who was being far too nice) told her that she couldn't do that in class. Her response? "Sorry, it's my dentist". don't do that in class holy shit, go outside or something
but that wasn't even the main attraction today, that honor goes to another girl who every few minutes kept shouting something along the lines of "I'm so angry right now" and going on about some guy she liked and how she needed to fix it but couldn't fix it and what if he knows she likes him and what if he doesn't like her and what should she do she's so angry I'M SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW
this is gonna be a long semester
- Tosh 2014
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