The Grass Always Stinks on Your Own Side
Recently i've heard a lot of complaints from my juniors... Complaints about:
1) CTW critique
2) Physics midterm
And i always either tell it straight in their faces or reflect secretly that they're only in year 1... Wait till they come to year 2 and have a taste of what we're going through... But after almost every time i say that, i'll think 'hmm... then the year 3s will tell us to go to year 3 and have a taste of what they're going through...'
You see... The age old theory that the grass is greener on the other side holds true every single time... Man are just never contented with what we have... We would always like to think that we have it worse than other folks... On retrospection, we went through the same shit and felt equally shitified about the same stuff - not much different from what our juniors r feeling now... But when our juniors bitched to us about their workload yada yada yada, we'd always tell them it's a piece of cake when we ourselves probably bitched more when we were in their shoes...
We either take too much pride in having been through and survived that shit or we are simply suffering from amnesia... I guess it's the former most of the time...
Well... I feel kinda hypocritical each time after i tell a junior 'relax... u're only in year 1'
But well... I guess stress is good... Now that i'm in year 2 and having been through an equal amount of hard knocks and good times in year 1, i can say that i'm much more prepared for and able to absorb anything that is to come... lalala... perhaps i should just stop giving advice =p
1) CTW critique
2) Physics midterm
And i always either tell it straight in their faces or reflect secretly that they're only in year 1... Wait till they come to year 2 and have a taste of what we're going through... But after almost every time i say that, i'll think 'hmm... then the year 3s will tell us to go to year 3 and have a taste of what they're going through...'
You see... The age old theory that the grass is greener on the other side holds true every single time... Man are just never contented with what we have... We would always like to think that we have it worse than other folks... On retrospection, we went through the same shit and felt equally shitified about the same stuff - not much different from what our juniors r feeling now... But when our juniors bitched to us about their workload yada yada yada, we'd always tell them it's a piece of cake when we ourselves probably bitched more when we were in their shoes...
We either take too much pride in having been through and survived that shit or we are simply suffering from amnesia... I guess it's the former most of the time...
Well... I feel kinda hypocritical each time after i tell a junior 'relax... u're only in year 1'
But well... I guess stress is good... Now that i'm in year 2 and having been through an equal amount of hard knocks and good times in year 1, i can say that i'm much more prepared for and able to absorb anything that is to come... lalala... perhaps i should just stop giving advice =p
