Undergraduate Admissions

I feel like I have basically nothing to write about in here right now. Everything that’s going on lately is stuff I already wrote about, like:

• classes
• work
• internship
• friends coming over and playing Rock Band (and a few other games this time, like Karaoke Revolution, which I was horrible at because I knew one song in the whole game, haha)
• the Democratic primary (an interesting way to kill time reading every day, though I wish it would just resolve itself already)

I just read a somewhat interesting article about sarcasm. I’m not sure if I agree with their assertion that sarcasm is a sort of defense mechanism for those lacking in confidence. More than anything, I think sarcasm is a generational thing. It’d be hard to have grown up in the late 80s and the 90s and not be sarcastic. We were so bombarded with sarcasm at the time; it was thoroughly and repeatedly shown to be the “cool” way to be. (For some prime examples, see Darlene in Roseanne or John Connor in Terminator 2.) I think it’s actually gotten a bit better since then.

I like sarcasm, but just from looking at TV and movies, you can see that it’s consumed much of our culture at this point. If you look at anything from before the late 80s/early 90s and compare it to what came later, it’s so obvious that genuineness has been deprecated quite a bit. Sometimes I think we’d all be better off if (to use another late 80s/early 90s throwback) the ‘tude could be toned down a little bit. It’s gotten a little out of hand.