Okay so either the people in my classes are really retarded, or I'm a lot smarter than I think I am. Or some sick medium between the two.

Here are three separate scenarios in each of my classes:
#1: Japanese class. So one of the most retarded quirks about the Japanese language is the annoying counters. Why do you need a different counter for birds vs. small animals, large animals, heavy machinery, hats, etc? I don't know. But you do. There's a specific counter word for long, thing objects, and another for flat objects. Weird, huh? Yeah I know. Even my Japanese teacher hates it. So anyway, here's the girl next to me, who had previously gotten a nine out of forty on a test that I had gotten 36/40: "Kami...that means paper. Is paper considered a flat object?"

#2: Physical Science; Oceanography. We were studying salinity, or how much salt there is in water. We were given five unknown samples and we had to match up with five different places around the world. Three given locations were sporadic around oceans, one from the Great Salt Lake, and another from a river. A freshwater river. We recorded one of the samples and it gave a salinity of "0". Freshwater, right? No salt at all? Makes sense? Anybody, anybody? Guy two seats down: "Oh my god I had no idea "0" was possible!"

(Also, another girl was shocked to find out that there is no plant or animal life at the very bottom of the ocean. She thought the angler fish from Finding Nemo was proof and got angry when the teacher told her "Well yes, that is sort of far down...but that's not the bottom of the ocean.")

#3: Online Poetry. This week's assignment: Write a Sonnet, Villanelle, or a Sestina. The teacher then gives us links to wikipedia pages so we can know what they are and how two write them. I wrote a Shakespearean Sonnet, which it states in the FIRST WIKIPEDIA PARAGRAPH: "A Shakespearean, or English sonnet consists of 14 lines, each line contains ten syllables,... The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG in which the last two lines are a rhyming couplet."
And that's exactly what I did. Fourteen, ten-syllable lines with the correct rhyme scheme. I swear to god, 9 out of 10 of my classmates commented "I don't know what you're style is, you're supposed to keep to one of the ones the teacher told us to do." One even said, "It's too short to be a Villanelle or a Sestina, so I don't know what this is." _{well you narrowed it down to ONE so your list of options is kind of short...}

-sigh- ...Whatever. I'm just angry at having to deal with this. And not that I think I'm smarter than them, because that's really not the problem. The difference is that I'm able to take what's given to me and make conclusions and use that information in other situations etc etc.

And can you believe that I still don't have my puter? Suck.