The Male Ego Should be Un-Invented

So, I'm sitting at TC, waiting for my name to be called on the interview LCD, and these 2 mathies / engineers guys are sitting next to me, and decide to talk really loudly, despite sitting right next to one another. A typical conversation that I usually hear amongst our UW males, and am frankly really tired of. I could only stand a couple minutes of this, before I just got up and moved to the end of the row, where I could finally have some peace and quiet and collect my thoughts before the interview. Here was the convo (roughly):

"Yea man, I had this really good job offer last term, too bad I didn't take it." guy 1
"Really, man, me too. Man, I have so many interviews this term, and I didn't even apply to that many jobs." guy 2
"So how is math? You switched out of eng into math? Is it alot easier?" G1
"No actually, math is pretty hard. But I'm doing pretty good. Last term I got an 85 in XXX, and (enter some high mark) in XXX. " G2
"Yea, eng is so tough now. But i'm such a slacker. I'm sure I can do better if I only tried."
blah blah blah...

And another time, when one of my freind's mechie freind decided to drop by our class, and pointed out, "wow, your fluid mechanics is SO EASY. Our's is so much harder." Mind you, he was in the room for a total of 3 minutes, and happen to just glance up at an example.
So i was helping out a mechie freind with his fluid mechanics assignment the other day, and fluid mechanics is fluid mechanics. And it was THAT hard, in face, it was almost the same. Of course, I also havent touched fluid mechnics for almost 2 years, so mechie fluid mechanics can't be THAT hard.

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And this little bickering / ego boosting of self continues. I get so tired of hearing conversations like this. Honestly guys, who gives a damn? Part of this cocky Waterloo persona - ego, is attributed by the reputation of the university, and the high esteem we hold ourselves in. However, these bright young gentlemen seem to be forgetting one minor detail, EVERYONE at UW goes to UW. We are all pretty smart, so who are they trying to impress? If you really had half of a brain, guys, then you would know that real intelligence does not need to be voiced. Especially in such a loud and cocky tone of voice.

You know, half the time, I think that guys just massage each other ego's. How many times do you hear a girl say to a guy, "wow, you're buff." However, how many times have you heard a guy say to another guy, "wow, man, you're ripped." or "you are a tank, dude." Again, the male ego boosting another male ego. And then they feel so proud of themselves that they have some muscle, and think, "wow, girls will like me now! how can they not? not only am i SMART, i've got biceps. I must be the greatest guy on earth." what geniuses.

so, as my friend says to me, "cat, guys are stupid, that's why we need to throw rocks at them. to knock some sense into them." i say, why stop at rocks, let's try boulders :). On an aside note, these are just random things that bother me. There were more pressing matters, but just to keep the conversatino light, i will omit them from this blog. The main messsage is, "you're not that important, im the most important, so i will do whatever is most convenient for myself, makes me feel good, and basically tell that to your face, so that i can put you down."