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Just trimming the list. — 2 years ago
Plus, I’ve made peace with not having particularly intellectual friends. I think I’ll naturally find a few smart people to hang out with once I get to grad school.
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There is a soloution.. — 2 years ago
Worth doing!
Live with your Uni friends after you graduate! Then you’ll never be starved for intellectual conversation! (of course you might be a bit bored of it all by then..)
Untitled — 2 years ago
Worth doing!
Not that I needed to find smarter friends so much, just that I had to find the smart friend in my friends. I’ve also found some really cool, smart friends accidently. Consider this goal PWNED.
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This is hard when you're a homebody... — 3 years ago
...and an introvert like me.
I went to a cooking class at the Whole Foods store last week. It was a lot of fun, even though it was not what I expected (not a proper class where the students get to cook themselves, but rather a four-course meal with real-time demonstration). I think such an experience would be a great way to meet people, and I DID…it’s just that I was probably the youngest one in the class, a), and b) there were honestly a lot of annoying people there. A few that were fun, funny, and intelligent, but again, much older than me – not individuals I would necessarily see socially on a regular basis.
Maybe I am being too rigid. Most likely this is the case. After all, it’s dumb to restrict myself to those who are 21-35. Ageist.
Cooking class: fun, but a bit of a bust, and too expensive to do very regularly. Other options? Maybe a different type of class. The difficulty is finding the time for one…
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Eh, what does this say about me?? — 3 years ago
Frankly, what it says is that I’m starved for intellectual stimulation. It’s not that I think I have an incredibly high IQ (though I might; I’ve never taken a credible test; if I don’t, then I might need to scrap this goal). It’s just that I really miss all the intelligent (and wacky) conversations I used to have with smart people in college. I’d like to find some other smart folks who are interested in books, politics, science, what have you. It’s amazingly hard to just run into these people now that I’m no longer in school.
I need more challenging friends. That’s what this goal says about me.
