heat waves spread.

I've been known as a "hot head" from time to time. Now don't get me wrong, I've had my fair share of drunken spats with strangers in the street (I'm a winner) that resulted in me... not remembering for the life of me what the hell I was yelling about. Once my friend's man-friend and his friend had to literally pick me up and carry me away from the buffoons who said something durogatory about my best friend. Clearly they had it coming, and the situation lead to a fabulous story to tell people when I feel like talking about my "crazy days." But, seriously, I was young(er) and I've calmed down quite a bit.

Except for when it comes to my academics or my work. Seriously, do not fuck with me, or I will be all over you like a fat kid on ding dongs. So here's my little PSA to assist my enragement at certain aspects of my recently-graduated-from MPH. Higher education can be quite the catch-22-- and I can comment on this since my father has more degrees than I can count, and is a professor himself. Lots of "highly-educated scholars" are cocky assholes who will never admit that they're wrong. If they're ever proven to be wrong, then they punish people for exposing that, and reduce the likelihood that said whistleblower will ever make it in the academic world. Therefore, the only people who make it in the academic world are mealy-mouthed little pricks who won't speak up when they see something that is CLEARLY and obviously stupid and completely anti-thetical to everything they're being taught in their higher education. Therefore, it's just more likely that the people who are teaching those who end up "highly educated" are taught by those who are (1) less intelligent; (2) have less backbone; (3) should have been eliminated from the evolutionary pool about 300 years ago-- poster children for pro-choice, as my high school AP-Biology teacher would have said.

In sum, I'm pissed and the two pricks I'm dealing with at the school that is not to be named (but it's the only public health school in DC) can suck my hypothetical dick.

End scene.

Seriously.