30 Times Intelligent Adults With Numerous Degrees Acted So Stupidly, It Resulted In Lots Of Embarrassment
Having a PhD or being a well-known expert in your field doesn’t make you immune to embarrassment. Even the best of us get into awkward situations that make us blush, no matter if we’re rocket scientists by day or brain surgeons by night—we’re all human, after all.
That’s what Twitter user Herne_TheHunter, aka Dean, wanted to show the world by sharing their facepalm-worthy story. Their embarrassing situation inspired other intelligent people to share their own awkward and cringy situations that you’re bound to relate to just like us, dear Pandas. Scroll down, upvote your fave tweets, and share your most embarrassing experiences in the comments.
Bored Panda spoke to Dean about their embarrassing sock incident and went into detail about how best to react to awkward situations. "Did I mention it was a Boba Fett sock? It was a Boba Fett sock…” Read on for the full interview!
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Dean is a 39-year-old doctor with two degrees, is a member of a Royal College, and had a sock up their shirt sleeve all morning. This is so relatable that the thread went viral on Twitter, getting over 113k likes and 7.3k retweets and comments.
“I certainly didn’t expect such a big reaction. Most of my tweets get a handful of likes and I’m frankly grateful for that much of a response. I’m not really sure why this one seemed to resonate with people. I’d guess it was because it gave everyone an opportunity to share their own silly oversights/mistakes,” Dean told us.
“Social media can often involve trying to look cool, or woke, or knowledgeable so maybe it was refreshing to be able to present the other side of things for a change?” they wondered about why the thread became so popular.
“I’m mainly working from home at the moment as most of my job is as a psychotherapist and we’ve been able to switch to remote working during the COVID-19 situation. As such, it was a little unusual for me to have to actually put full work clothes on and pop into the hospital for a bit,” Dean said.
“Clearly, I was out of practice at getting dressed as when I reached for my coffee later on that morning, I felt a strange, furry sensation around my elbow. I had to undo a couple of shirt buttons to retrieve what turned out to be a stray sock (having double-checked all Teams calls had ended). I didn’t actually mention it to anybody at work directly: we’re socially distanced at the moment so I would have had to actively seek them out, which might have felt a bit weird."
I have lost my phone while it has been in my hand. Looked all over for it. Realized I was holding it
Dean and everyone else’s stories illustrate that even the mightiest and most accomplished adults who have 200+ IQ and play 5D chess can make blunders. Making mistakes is a part of life, however, it’s also important to know how to react to embarrassing situations.
According to Dean, embarrassment can be tricky to handle. “I immediately thought of a couple of situations that still make me squirm from my past. If it’s something inconsequential, like a sock up your sleeve, then it might be a useful opportunity to remember you’re human and to puncture any pomposity that might have snuck up on you. For more serious or significant situations, I think the best advice I can give would be to talk about it when you feel safe and ready to do so.”
Dean added that he wants to use the opportunity while he has the internet’s attention to do some good in the world and point people towards his friend’s social enterprise that employs survivors of domestic abuse to make flowers out of recycled paper.
I think this is what Clint and Natasha were talking about Budapest
Aaah, the famous gift mouse. My cat once brought me half a mouse. She kindly left it out on the (dark) balcony. Came home after work, kicked shoes/socks off, went to the balcony for a smoke ...
I woke up with a huge mole on my pillow. Even that was better, than the mouse he brought home alive, befriended and ate together from the same bowl.
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I was getting ready to go snowboarding one time and couldn't get my right boot on. I thought the insole had gotten shoved down to the bottom and all smooshed up. Gave it to my boyfriend to check and he pulled out one of our cat's toy mice. So slightly less disgusting, and probably way more comical.
Haha! I could swear my dad's shoe was squeaking every time he took a step. He said he couldn't hear anything but he took his shoe off and found the cat's squeaky mouse in the toe. He walked around all day like that! :)
That reminds me of a story a friend told me. She was renting a pretty questionable flat. She woke up one morning and had a strange sensation in her back. She touched her back and discovered that there was a dead, squashed mouse stuck there. She must have rolled over in her sleep and squashed the poor critter.
Something similar (ish) once happened to me in an outdoor yoga class. We were doing a series of bridge poses, and the instructor said if you feel pain in your shoulders you should modify the position. When I would squeeze me shoulder blades together, I'd feel a sharp pain, so I'd stop. The pain would go away until I tried again, and again, sharp pain in one shoulder. At the end of the class, I pulled a bee out of my top. I had been stung several times before I crushed it with my shoulder. Poor bee.
Load More Replies... Something similar happened to me, but there was no cat involved. It was practically summer and school was ending. I had this uniform shoes of a brand called Kickers, very famous here in Argentina at that time. I remember I was so uncomfortable all day at school. When I got home in the afternoon I took out the shoe and there was a very small flattened toad. I had it with me all day and toads really gross me out, but I was also so sad that I had killed it...
I put on my steel toe shoes in the morning at work, wore them all day. At the end of the day took them off saw red on the toe of one, pulled it off looking for an injury. Finally found a dead baby mouse in the toe of the shoe. It's been a big joke at work for years that I am a baby killer.
Drove up to my house to park and wondered how a pine cone got on my welcome mat. When I got to the door I realized it was the head of a squirrel one of the stray cats had left for me.
my dog was making a fuss trying to get to the left hand side of my armchair, I got up and checked for stray crumbs and found that he had rought me a dead mouse and I had been sitting on it instead of acknowledging his generosity.
Ahhhhhh!!!! That's why we have dogs. A little poop looks so much better.
I had two cats. One specialized in mice and moles, the other in lizards and snakes. One night I kept feeling something squirming UNDER me. Lizard seeking warmth
You're lucky you got an intact mouse, we just get their (ugh) skeletons
How can someone not notice right away that something felt totally wrong in their shoe??
Kitty served breakfast for a friend in a weird looking, but interesting bowl. HOw considerate!
I have done something similar. I was having a breast lump removed as an outpatient and I arrived in plenty of time, got to the right department and 'checked in' at reception. The receptionist said they had no record of an appointment for me. I knew I was there on the right date/time etc and luckily had the original letter with me to prove it. I showed her the letter, she read it and pointed out I was at the WRONG HOSPITAL. They were very good though, they phoned through and asked them to give me a later appointment so I could travel the 20 miles and be seen that day. What an idiot I am lol!
How do you spend 90 minutes on make up? I am a fully formed adult female and when not in quarantine I wear make up daily. I don't know how to make a make-up routine last 90 minutes. Even if I move at a sloth's pace, it would still only 15 minutes.
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Being smart or accomplished doesn't make you immune to stupid mistakes. In fact, people with a lot going on often space out the simple s**t.
Why do people keep mentioning their educational qualification and age I don't see how it's relevant to what happened
The thread is Intelligent people with degrees...making mistakes. I also got a little tired of the the superior status of their degrees, but also found it amusing that stupidity and bad luck has nothing to do with your education! x
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I've gone on around 8 "all-inclusive" vacations and they always have started on a Saturday, the flights were always sometime on Saturday. So when we got to the airport a few hours before our flight time they told us we were very very late, and I was confused, I said noo... we are still early. She said your flight was yesterday. I've never felt so stupid. Why not look at the date on the ticket? Or the itinerary or something. Why just assume it was Saturday... The lady I dealt with was actually retiring and that was her last few hours of her last shift, she ended up getting us a few connecting flights at no charge that took 2 days, so in all we lost 3 days of our 7 day vacation. Not as bad as I initially thought, that we lost the whole thing, but still. Very dumb move, will never happen again! Also kudos to that lady who saved the trip.
Once I was taking a shower and discovered my shampoo bottle was empty. So I figured I'd use my daughter's shampoo. Squirted some out onto my hand and was just about to put it on my head when I glanced at the bottle and realized that it was not shampoo ... it was the hair removal cream she uses on her legs. As I am almost bald, I really do not need hair removal cream! I told my daughter about this the next day and she said, "So how long have you been using this, dad?"
I have a Master’s degree, and I’ve done variations of a lot of these in the past, generally because I left too much to be done in the morning before work. That’s why, a few years ago, I started laying out my work clothes, shoes, and even underwear, the night before when I have the time to check them over and make sure they match. Plus I make my lunch, pack my briefcase, and put it, my keys, and my purse together next to the door, so I don’t have to scramble to find them on my way out. I have so many things to do when I get up that prepping as much as possible the night before just cuts down how much I have to remember to do before I’m fully awake. Same goes for traveling, and making sure I don’t forget anything. I usually also make a list of what I’ll need so I don’t end up having to buy replacements, and figure out which bag it can all go in, so TSA doesn’t confiscate anything.
I'm 43 with 3 MAs and a PhD. 2 weeks ago I spent 10 minutes ranting to my parents over the phone about a missing coffee scoop while tearing apart my kitchen looking for it. It was in my other hand behind my phone.
45, no degrees, but a bunch of qualifications, a member of Mensa and working at the courts preparing hearings; two weeks ago I took a serious problem to my boss - trials booked into the wrong court. Only realized I'd oopsed when she started laughing. I'd printed out the wrong court list. Thank god she has a sense of humour!
Looked all over the house for a pair of reading glasses. Passed the mirror. A pair on my head, a pair in my shirt pocket, another pair pair hanging from the button placket, and, the best, the pair on my nose that I had been looking through and over the whole 20 minutes
A female TV presenter made the odd shoes Gaff last week!! odd-5f161a...ab7944.jpg 
That's not too bad. At least they are the same color.
Load More Replies... That time I started out on a two-hour drive. I was slightly stressed because it was raining heavily (doesn't happen much Down Under!). Also stressed because my car started making a weird noise not long into the trip. Spent ten minutes trying to identify it - regular, slightly squeaky, coming from the front of the car etc. It was the windscreen wipers..
Made too much pancake mixture, put the remainder in a clean milk bottle, put it in the fridge for the next day .... husband made tea, only to tell me that the milk has gone off... yep, not milk
I thought it was the coincidence of the century when I found out both my aunts shared the same birthday date, until my dad reminded me that they were, in fact, twins
I once got on a bus and sat in the front seat, then realised that my trousers were inside out. The seams were clearly visible, as was the washing tag, somewhere in the middle of my behind. And I had to stand in full view of everyone, to get off at my stop.
I got 'stuck' in a bathroom one time and stayed in there for about half and hour, trying to call to someone to help, ended up sitting on the floor freaking out, and then realised i was turning the handle the wrong way.
One time I got confused and took two hayfever tablets instead of one. I came over really drowsy really quickly and was in a heavy sleep for an hour -_-
My dad took my glasses and the TV remote to work on two separate occasions. My family put our laundry in the wrong car. I thought that I had lost some money, turns out it was in my pocket the whole time. I also locked my keys in my house.
50+, former college professor & grade-school teacher, PhD, 3 MAs, 1 BA, 4 teaching certs, librarian, single parent of 2 (now-)adults: used to have a lot of hair (2 ft pony tail, beard, etc), and at least once a year, I have asked "Where are my glasses?" and they are/were on my head.
Lady with 2 degrees here: When my oldest was a baby, I fed her lunch then brought her out to run errands. An hour & 3 stops later we get home and I look in the mirror. I had a huge bright orange stain on my right shoulder. My baby had burped up half a jar of strained carrots on me and I didn’t notice. No one said anything.
Worked with a guy who was way senior to me. Wore two different color shoes to a client project meeting—no big deal really. But then he wrote on their wall with permanent marker. We were projecting a slide presentation on a wall because there was not screen on the room. The dry erase board was on a different wall and nimrod writes in their wall with permanent marker—where did he get the marker? Off of an easel with a big paper pad on it.
LOL this makes me feel better... TBH I always felt that once you got a PhD your brains went somewhere else I have done more stupid stuff since getting mine than ever before...
My now-ex-husband - before we were married - took off for work as an IT guy for a school district. On his drive there, he realized he had forgotten to put on pants. He was wearing long plaid boxers and it was a bit of a style at the time for buys to wear plaid shorts, so he decided they were shorts and went on his merry way to work - in his undies. He was not fired - heaven knows why.
I prepped for a colonoscopy and you know how much fun that is! I then showed up at the appointed time except I was a week early! Holy s**t....was I going to have to do this all over again? No there was a doctor just finishing up who took mercy on me and said he'd take me right in. Hallelujah! Everything was fine, no polyps, no nothing and he said it was the fastest one he's done in a long time. Now I check my dates over and over again before important procedures.
I love how each of these is the individual sharing their own experiences as opposed to someone trying to shame them. Hilarious!
I put a leftover crab cake into a tupperware container, then I put the tupperware container into a cupboard instead of the refrigerator. I spent the entire next day looking forward to eating that crab cake, only to be unable to find it at dinner time. Discovered it after much searching. Had to get takeout.
I think very intelligent people sometimes seem stupid in everyday situations because they are focused on their ideas and "abstract" stuff and they just do repetitive, unimportant tasks automatically. It is as if they suffered from ADD, because they have so many ideas in their heads that they can't focus on real life.
Sheldon: Well, it is understandable that some intelligent adults are also prone to embarrassing moments, they are not theoretical physicist.
not to me but friend/coworker. we had gone to college together, ended up working in law office together. when he was hired & put in our group we teased him that he would gain weight bc we always had goodies to snack between cases. he came in one day, aggravated, because he had woke up in middle of night w/chest pains. thought he was having heart issues due to weight gain. nope, he had tolled over on his tv remote, got it stuck between his man boobs, & didn't notice until he saw it in the mirror. said he felt like an idiot & he needed to diet.
My dad once went to work without his shoes on xD Just entered the car in his pleasently warm garage on his socks, suit on and briefcase and all.
Is there anyone who wears glasses who didn't at least once, spent like 20 minutes angrily looking for glasses that "just disappeared" to find them finally on their own nose? Or tried to put reading glasses over regular outside glasses and was kinda "why this doesn't fit"? And once, I coated zucchini cuts with brown sugar instead of bread crumbs, because they kinda look similar and I didn't wear glasses, and was really stunned when it started to burn and melt in a pan and zucchini was like dipped in caramel instead of fried. Most of things happened to me because I wasn't wearing glasses. Or I was and I was trying to find them, not noticing how aparently my sight was really good during search.
Degrees don't make you better or smarter than other people. Just pretend Harvard offered a degree is stamp collecting. you're going to read and learn about what it's like to collect stamps. That doesn't mean you're smarter than others because all of a sudden some jackass decrees you the degree of knowing about stamps and how to collect them. Sigh, it's all so exhausting.
Guess what? Every human is a human. I got three degrees and i fart, i even poop sometimes, and i made a lot of mistakes in my life, none of them had anything to do with my degrees. I don't get it.
I'm in 3 AP classes and I accidentally wore my shirt inside out recently. It was a button-up shirt, too. I didn't notice until I looked at it and thought "huh, the patterning is a lot lighter than I remember.."
A friend of mine's brother has brains to burn . A maths genius from birth and now teaches higher maths and astrophysics with 3 doctorates and 2 Phds to his name. One day after moving into his new apartment the college secretary came into his lecture room telling him to get home quick as his apartment was on fire. He got there only to have one of the fire firefighters tell him that the source was the dishwasher. The maths genius had bought a new dishwasher, plugged it in and just left on to work while he went to work. The only thing he didn't do was plumb it in. The engine overheated and the dishwasher caught fire. I would have loved to know where he thought the water to wash his dishes came from. I bet he would have liked to as well.
That's nothing. I have known people with degrees that truly believe that BLM truly cares about black lives.
Some of the most educated people out there truly believe BLM really believes black lives matter.
I sense quite a bit of humble-bragging about degrees. I guess there are not many occasions to bring them up irl
I have met many educated people in my field of work and in life. Passing exams doesn't mean that one is smart. It just means, they can maybe memorise s**t easily. However, when it comes to life, they were some of the most stupid, unpractical, absolutely incompetent individuals I have ever met. No amount of PhDs and other degrees would ever make them smart. Give me a wise, practical, intelligent person any day over some academically accomplished person in the same field. I will rather employ somebody without a degree but able to learn on the job and understand how things work in the real world.
Take out all the information on the degrees these people have and the thread would be a lot more tolerable. Having a degree doesn’t make you smarter than those who do not have degrees. And as someone else said below, it definitely doesn’t make you immune to stupidity.
Getting a degree, literally means that you have read books, discussed them, were "tested" on them, and listened to lectures. You can do all of that without going to college. You really only need "schooling" for physical sciences i.e. medicine, physics, biology, etc. Tests in college are to see if you "understand" and "retained" what you read.
Load More Replies... Being smart or accomplished doesn't make you immune to stupid mistakes. In fact, people with a lot going on often space out the simple s**t.
Why do people keep mentioning their educational qualification and age I don't see how it's relevant to what happened
The thread is Intelligent people with degrees...making mistakes. I also got a little tired of the the superior status of their degrees, but also found it amusing that stupidity and bad luck has nothing to do with your education! x
Load More Replies... I've gone on around 8 "all-inclusive" vacations and they always have started on a Saturday, the flights were always sometime on Saturday. So when we got to the airport a few hours before our flight time they told us we were very very late, and I was confused, I said noo... we are still early. She said your flight was yesterday. I've never felt so stupid. Why not look at the date on the ticket? Or the itinerary or something. Why just assume it was Saturday... The lady I dealt with was actually retiring and that was her last few hours of her last shift, she ended up getting us a few connecting flights at no charge that took 2 days, so in all we lost 3 days of our 7 day vacation. Not as bad as I initially thought, that we lost the whole thing, but still. Very dumb move, will never happen again! Also kudos to that lady who saved the trip.
Once I was taking a shower and discovered my shampoo bottle was empty. So I figured I'd use my daughter's shampoo. Squirted some out onto my hand and was just about to put it on my head when I glanced at the bottle and realized that it was not shampoo ... it was the hair removal cream she uses on her legs. As I am almost bald, I really do not need hair removal cream! I told my daughter about this the next day and she said, "So how long have you been using this, dad?"
I have a Master’s degree, and I’ve done variations of a lot of these in the past, generally because I left too much to be done in the morning before work. That’s why, a few years ago, I started laying out my work clothes, shoes, and even underwear, the night before when I have the time to check them over and make sure they match. Plus I make my lunch, pack my briefcase, and put it, my keys, and my purse together next to the door, so I don’t have to scramble to find them on my way out. I have so many things to do when I get up that prepping as much as possible the night before just cuts down how much I have to remember to do before I’m fully awake. Same goes for traveling, and making sure I don’t forget anything. I usually also make a list of what I’ll need so I don’t end up having to buy replacements, and figure out which bag it can all go in, so TSA doesn’t confiscate anything.
I'm 43 with 3 MAs and a PhD. 2 weeks ago I spent 10 minutes ranting to my parents over the phone about a missing coffee scoop while tearing apart my kitchen looking for it. It was in my other hand behind my phone.
45, no degrees, but a bunch of qualifications, a member of Mensa and working at the courts preparing hearings; two weeks ago I took a serious problem to my boss - trials booked into the wrong court. Only realized I'd oopsed when she started laughing. I'd printed out the wrong court list. Thank god she has a sense of humour!
Looked all over the house for a pair of reading glasses. Passed the mirror. A pair on my head, a pair in my shirt pocket, another pair pair hanging from the button placket, and, the best, the pair on my nose that I had been looking through and over the whole 20 minutes
A female TV presenter made the odd shoes Gaff last week!! odd-5f161a...ab7944.jpg
That's not too bad. At least they are the same color.
Load More Replies... That time I started out on a two-hour drive. I was slightly stressed because it was raining heavily (doesn't happen much Down Under!). Also stressed because my car started making a weird noise not long into the trip. Spent ten minutes trying to identify it - regular, slightly squeaky, coming from the front of the car etc. It was the windscreen wipers..
Made too much pancake mixture, put the remainder in a clean milk bottle, put it in the fridge for the next day .... husband made tea, only to tell me that the milk has gone off... yep, not milk
I thought it was the coincidence of the century when I found out both my aunts shared the same birthday date, until my dad reminded me that they were, in fact, twins
I once got on a bus and sat in the front seat, then realised that my trousers were inside out. The seams were clearly visible, as was the washing tag, somewhere in the middle of my behind. And I had to stand in full view of everyone, to get off at my stop.
I got 'stuck' in a bathroom one time and stayed in there for about half and hour, trying to call to someone to help, ended up sitting on the floor freaking out, and then realised i was turning the handle the wrong way.
One time I got confused and took two hayfever tablets instead of one. I came over really drowsy really quickly and was in a heavy sleep for an hour -_-
My dad took my glasses and the TV remote to work on two separate occasions. My family put our laundry in the wrong car. I thought that I had lost some money, turns out it was in my pocket the whole time. I also locked my keys in my house.
50+, former college professor & grade-school teacher, PhD, 3 MAs, 1 BA, 4 teaching certs, librarian, single parent of 2 (now-)adults: used to have a lot of hair (2 ft pony tail, beard, etc), and at least once a year, I have asked "Where are my glasses?" and they are/were on my head.
Lady with 2 degrees here: When my oldest was a baby, I fed her lunch then brought her out to run errands. An hour & 3 stops later we get home and I look in the mirror. I had a huge bright orange stain on my right shoulder. My baby had burped up half a jar of strained carrots on me and I didn’t notice. No one said anything.
Worked with a guy who was way senior to me. Wore two different color shoes to a client project meeting—no big deal really. But then he wrote on their wall with permanent marker. We were projecting a slide presentation on a wall because there was not screen on the room. The dry erase board was on a different wall and nimrod writes in their wall with permanent marker—where did he get the marker? Off of an easel with a big paper pad on it.
LOL this makes me feel better... TBH I always felt that once you got a PhD your brains went somewhere else I have done more stupid stuff since getting mine than ever before...
My now-ex-husband - before we were married - took off for work as an IT guy for a school district. On his drive there, he realized he had forgotten to put on pants. He was wearing long plaid boxers and it was a bit of a style at the time for buys to wear plaid shorts, so he decided they were shorts and went on his merry way to work - in his undies. He was not fired - heaven knows why.
I prepped for a colonoscopy and you know how much fun that is! I then showed up at the appointed time except I was a week early! Holy s**t....was I going to have to do this all over again? No there was a doctor just finishing up who took mercy on me and said he'd take me right in. Hallelujah! Everything was fine, no polyps, no nothing and he said it was the fastest one he's done in a long time. Now I check my dates over and over again before important procedures.
I love how each of these is the individual sharing their own experiences as opposed to someone trying to shame them. Hilarious!
I put a leftover crab cake into a tupperware container, then I put the tupperware container into a cupboard instead of the refrigerator. I spent the entire next day looking forward to eating that crab cake, only to be unable to find it at dinner time. Discovered it after much searching. Had to get takeout.
I think very intelligent people sometimes seem stupid in everyday situations because they are focused on their ideas and "abstract" stuff and they just do repetitive, unimportant tasks automatically. It is as if they suffered from ADD, because they have so many ideas in their heads that they can't focus on real life.
Sheldon: Well, it is understandable that some intelligent adults are also prone to embarrassing moments, they are not theoretical physicist.
not to me but friend/coworker. we had gone to college together, ended up working in law office together. when he was hired & put in our group we teased him that he would gain weight bc we always had goodies to snack between cases. he came in one day, aggravated, because he had woke up in middle of night w/chest pains. thought he was having heart issues due to weight gain. nope, he had tolled over on his tv remote, got it stuck between his man boobs, & didn't notice until he saw it in the mirror. said he felt like an idiot & he needed to diet.
My dad once went to work without his shoes on xD Just entered the car in his pleasently warm garage on his socks, suit on and briefcase and all.
Is there anyone who wears glasses who didn't at least once, spent like 20 minutes angrily looking for glasses that "just disappeared" to find them finally on their own nose? Or tried to put reading glasses over regular outside glasses and was kinda "why this doesn't fit"? And once, I coated zucchini cuts with brown sugar instead of bread crumbs, because they kinda look similar and I didn't wear glasses, and was really stunned when it started to burn and melt in a pan and zucchini was like dipped in caramel instead of fried. Most of things happened to me because I wasn't wearing glasses. Or I was and I was trying to find them, not noticing how aparently my sight was really good during search.
Degrees don't make you better or smarter than other people. Just pretend Harvard offered a degree is stamp collecting. you're going to read and learn about what it's like to collect stamps. That doesn't mean you're smarter than others because all of a sudden some jackass decrees you the degree of knowing about stamps and how to collect them. Sigh, it's all so exhausting.
Guess what? Every human is a human. I got three degrees and i fart, i even poop sometimes, and i made a lot of mistakes in my life, none of them had anything to do with my degrees. I don't get it.
I'm in 3 AP classes and I accidentally wore my shirt inside out recently. It was a button-up shirt, too. I didn't notice until I looked at it and thought "huh, the patterning is a lot lighter than I remember.."
A friend of mine's brother has brains to burn . A maths genius from birth and now teaches higher maths and astrophysics with 3 doctorates and 2 Phds to his name. One day after moving into his new apartment the college secretary came into his lecture room telling him to get home quick as his apartment was on fire. He got there only to have one of the fire firefighters tell him that the source was the dishwasher. The maths genius had bought a new dishwasher, plugged it in and just left on to work while he went to work. The only thing he didn't do was plumb it in. The engine overheated and the dishwasher caught fire. I would have loved to know where he thought the water to wash his dishes came from. I bet he would have liked to as well.
That's nothing. I have known people with degrees that truly believe that BLM truly cares about black lives.
Some of the most educated people out there truly believe BLM really believes black lives matter.
I sense quite a bit of humble-bragging about degrees. I guess there are not many occasions to bring them up irl
I have met many educated people in my field of work and in life. Passing exams doesn't mean that one is smart. It just means, they can maybe memorise s**t easily. However, when it comes to life, they were some of the most stupid, unpractical, absolutely incompetent individuals I have ever met. No amount of PhDs and other degrees would ever make them smart. Give me a wise, practical, intelligent person any day over some academically accomplished person in the same field. I will rather employ somebody without a degree but able to learn on the job and understand how things work in the real world.
Take out all the information on the degrees these people have and the thread would be a lot more tolerable. Having a degree doesn’t make you smarter than those who do not have degrees. And as someone else said below, it definitely doesn’t make you immune to stupidity.
Getting a degree, literally means that you have read books, discussed them, were "tested" on them, and listened to lectures. You can do all of that without going to college. You really only need "schooling" for physical sciences i.e. medicine, physics, biology, etc. Tests in college are to see if you "understand" and "retained" what you read.
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