Camille+G's+OpEd+Article

media type="file" key="camilleg-muckraker-2011.mp3" align="center" For all the people who act as though they know everything, I have some advice: Shut up. Nobody cares if you think you know the legal requirements for a giantess, or if you know that you need to rinse excess gunk out of a mink that you’ve never seen before. If any of you think that you impress anybody with your lies, here’s a newsflash: you don’t. Everyone around you knows that everything you say is some weird attempt to gain attention. Nobody cares about the conspiracy theories, or everything you think you know. After years of classes around you, everyone can see through the lies and exaggerations to know that you all are fakes.

There is a very big difference between people knowing random facts, and others who lie about stuff that they do not know. You are not the random nerd who says “Did you know that Earth is such and such miles away from the sun?” or the student who learned something interesting in class who says “Captain just taught us the coolest thing in Physcology…” What you do is different. This method of repulsive behavior involves talking too loudly about things you don’t know, trying to teach things you don’t know, and continually shaking your head like a bobble head. This behavior is annoying, obnoxious and is also a waste of my time. I do not want to spend my days in class listening to your nonsense and having to discuss pointless comments that make no sense. If classes could stay on the topic, class would progress faster and we could have more time for review. Instead, I am forced to wither away in a corner of boredom while you try to explain things beyond your depth of understanding.

I understand the desire to feel smart, but here’s an idea. You should go home and read your textbook before arriving in class so that when in class, you can deepen the entire class’ understanding of the material by asking involved and high level questions.

So please, before I get so angry with all of you that I slap you across the face or kick you in the gonads, reattach your head to your neck so it stops bobbing and keep your mouth shut; for all our sakes. If it’s not enough that an entire class is rolling their eyes every time you open your mouth, then remember that even the teachers notice when you are BS-ing out of thin air in order to appear more intelligent than you actually are. Most likely in the near future when you want that glowing recommendation, chances are that you’re not going to get it. So for your sake, my sake, and the sake of FTHS’ sanity, shut your mouth.