When they speak in a foreign tongue...

There are times when we find ourselves in perfectly perplexing situations where our minds are blank and we do not understand what's happening around us. We have this time when our mind just won't work at all. It just won't process the information it is supposed to be taking care of. And so sometimes we just find ourselves wondering whether they are speaking in a foreign language it just sound to ridiculous for us to understand.

I am still a student in a university where education is given a higher premium than anything else. It is often inferred and assumed by all that all students in this university have higher IQ's and thus, it is a common thought that we are among the best students since we come from a prestigious and one of the best universities in the country.

It is not really a ridiculous thought. Yet, sometimes it is irritating when people just make these inferences of whatever they think we're like. Often, they seem to conclude that students in this university are akin to walking dictionaries and calculators with minds that of a high processing computer where information is easily sorted out and digested. It's like the instructor says this and that and boom! you are expected to understand whatever they're talking of.

Are we such things? Definitely not. Because even the most powerful computer experiences glitches and information overload and all. It is so depressing and troubling that many people expects us to be good in all we do. That whatever we do must be of the highest quality.

I am not against the thought that our work must be that best, that we must have these what they call "better abilities" for us to have entered this institution. Yet, it is wrong to assume that we just can understand whatever they say and be able to digest it fully in just a snap of the fingers. That we must be the best all the time where no failures are expected, is just so presumptuous on their part. This is just so obscene.

I often find myself in such situation especially on courses that we have just been acquainted with. For example, we are studying this course where the lessons are the fundamentals of all mathematical lessons. Where we have to study so many different theorems, corollaries, axioms, lemmas and such. I do not find it boring but the way it is presented to us is so-so.

The instructor tells you this moment that you do not have to really understand this theorems, you just have to accept them as true. Yet, minutes later, he tells you that for the next theorem to be true, you must be able to prove that it is indeed true. How then does one expect that we understand what he's saying when he had just told us to just"accept" it as it is without really explaining what it is?Isn't it completely perplexing? It's like huh? What are you saying? Are you speaking in a completely different tongue? My mind is going blank. It just can't process the said information without first understanding what preceded it?

Whatever. It seems to be just the way things are these days. They tell you this and they just expect you to completely understand them by heart the next second. Well, yeah right. Whatever you say. It must be information overload and all. My system must have had a glitch because it doesn't seem to perform the operations that we are assumed to be performing that very minute. Sometimes, I just wanna shut down and lay to rest all this insanities.

Still have the same opinion? I bet not. After all, we are just students doing our best to understand it all not some excellent information processor that don't have setbacks of our own.

Better get some sleep. My processor might just process the information while I'm asleep. It just might be in my dreams tonight. So help me. I hope it won't be another nightmare. I hope it heals itself tonight.