- from Laurie re Too Technical

[Guest guest]

I guess I am overcompensating from a bad experience I had in a

grad school class. Basically the " professor " (and I am using that

term with no respect in his case) told me that I did not deserve to

be in his class or in any other grad level course because I

couldn't " talk the talk " and tended to " simplify concepts " . He

made my life miserable and I remember running out of the class

in one of the last days in tears because he just wouldn't stop the

harrassment - the ridicule whenever I would present my take on

the concepts being discussed. Needless to say, that was the

end of my graduate career....I never felt confident enough to

enroll anywhere else and now I am way too old (and not healthy

enough) to even think of starting grad school. I cannot seem to

find the natural median........I am too stupid for the people that I

work with.....and too techinical to those I hope to be friends with.

The story of my life since childhood.

I will try to keep things simple in the future.

Laurie