Oh I have been there
Not on that scale but I have been there and it's not nice
( Major Turd for tonight only, Sat 20 Aug 2011, 19:18, 1 reply)

I don't doubt it
but you can imagine how the ride home felt. MY LIFE IS OVER et ad nauseum...
( thwart is just not feeling it with you, Sat 20 Aug 2011, 19:40, closed)

Oh pfft!
Humiliation is character-forming. You're a better man for making a plonker of yourself. Everyone does it, no matter what they say. The great thing is acknowledging it, and eventually having a laugh at your own expense. Once you can do that, nobody can belittle you.

I know this because I'm 53 next week and have shown myself up more times than you've had hot dinners, and I don't give a stuff!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sat 20 Aug 2011, 20:43, closed)

you are wise
and I'm enjoying my plonker!
( thwart is just not feeling it with you, Sat 20 Aug 2011, 21:08, closed)

and if it's anything like the departments I've worked in no one would have cared in the slightest. They'd have just written you off as a typical undergrad. No one expects undergrads to be any good at that kind of thing anyway.
(xanthine, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 12:31, closed)

Oh, certainly.
Ultimately, I still got into graduate school--though what I did there is another story.
( thwart is just not feeling it with you, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 17:21, closed)