Out of my depthAs a schoolkid, I signed up for a public speaking contest purely as a ruse to meet girls. It haunts me still: in front of 300 people, I started to speak, dried up, stood there for what felt like half an hour staring at the floor and then slowly walked back to my seat. Oh, and the girl I liked laughed.
Have you ever been utterly, completely, devastatingly out of your depth?
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chthonic, Thu 14 Oct 2004, 15:07)
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CollegeHad been on the dole for a couple of years and thought I'd better educate myself a bit, so I actually had a chance of getting a job. Having run an Atari ST diskmag, programmed in STOS and 68k assembly, I thought, hey, why not do a computer course.
Duly go to college, and sign up for Software Engineering, cos it sounded good. First lesson, it was a pop quiz, 20 questions to see how much you already know.
Cue me sitting there for an hour. The only things I could answer were my name, and the first question, which was mid-range algebra. I then completed the rest of the paper with an apology to the tutors for wasting their time, and how I hoped they wouldn't hold it against me if I enrolled in something else and had them as a tutor there as well.
(, Mon 18 Oct 2004, 21:12, Reply)
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