Condescending people. People who talk down to you. People on power trips.

This happened in my design class today.

I arrive at class knowing that we had a "guest speaker" from Art Center (a expensive design college near me) who was going to talk about portfolios etc. While this might be valuable to the 18-20 year olds in my class who don't have a clue what they want to do, I wasn't that into it. But I figured it would be cool to meet some of the current Art Center students and expand my network of designer acquaintances. Maybe get some good crit on my work. So there I was.

5 minutes after class has started, fresh from work, I'm scarfing down my Taco Bell quesadilla and drink, having already posted my work on the wall and discussing one of my classmate's work. One of the Art Center kids starts coming around and in the most rude, condescending way tells everyone that what they are doing is absolutely unACCeptable! Literally, every single person was somehow doing something wrong. Typically, we have until 3:15 or even 3:30 to get our work on the wall. During that time we all talk about the assignment and get clarification. It's loud, disorganized and at 3:15 when our professor walks in, it gets more organized. Today it went like this:

"Why isn't your work up? It's 3:05! Is that going on the board? If it isn't up there it's not graded! Period! End of conversation! You can kiss that "A" goodbye!"

(to a Korean girl who takes a few seconds to understand and reply to anything) "What is this? Are these your roughs?" stares intensely at her "Huh? What.....Are......These.......?"

"You - don't have your drink on the table! What do you think this is? Preschool? You think your professor is going to let you have your drink on your desk when you get to real college?"

Having attended "real college" I can safely say the only time my professor has cared about what was on our desk was in the computer lab because sticky soda + expensive computers don't mix.

This guy was probably 20 years old and on the largest power trip of his life.

So, when he singled me out for having my drink on the table, I told him to go fuck himself. He looked stunned and said "We have a guest speaker...she deserves respect!"

To which I said, "I respect her. I don't respect you." and then packed my shit and left. Fuck that. Fuck everything about this guy. He has two years of a fuck all expensive university under his belt and thinks he's made of gold when he's in a pack of community college kids. I hope he never gets hired and that 200k can go down the toilet while he begs for money in his hipster skinny jeans. I take this class to learn, grow, and meet new people. I don't take it to be blasted by someone or waste my time watching someone kick and scream. I don't have the time or patience for that bullshit.