#this class makes it very difficult to not feel like i'm constantly floundering and playing catch up | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

thebirdandhersong · 8 months

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one thing I've learned through being in this Milton course is that I really, really don't like feeling stupid. and that I will inevitably feel really stupid and out of my depth in a class full of honours students and one girl I know doesn't think very much of me, who can quote Keats and Blake and Shelley at the drop of a hat and very eloquently bring up sociologists and philosophers and a bajillion other smart sounding, insightful things in class discussion, while we're studying poetry I a) only half-care about and b) don't half-understand

#we were halfway through class today and i was like take me home i want to go HOOOOME #y'all................ what a day. and i'm only a third through the lectures i need to be in. like what the heckkkk i want to be not here #im usually mostly immune to the comparison game because i forced myself to be that way in high school but MAN #this class makes it very difficult to not feel like i'm constantly floundering and playing catch up #and as someone who is a slow reader and thinker and is not very articulate it sometimes makes me not want to talk in class

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