When I was in band camp...

[pez]

I wonder if it's just me or if anyone else has noticed this. In casual conversation, people would sometimes say, "when I was in uni/college, this and that happened and blah blah blah."

But if the person speaking is a law/medic/artschool student, they wouldn't say that. They would say, "when I was in law school/med school/art school..." even if the choice of their studies have nothing to do with what follows in the sentence.

I wonder if they're just trained to say that, or if they think they're superior, or if they've worked so hard to get into those schools that they cannot contain themselves and must. tell. someone. omg gfjsdkfhskdflhs.

Ah. People.

In other news, work was stressful. And I'm currently cursing domain squatters.

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[naive-kurapika.livejournal.com]

I noticed that too.

I think they're conceited.

/pats back

When I was in PoT fandom...

[crystalusagi.livejournal.com]

Luckily I don't know any doctors/medics/high-art-people. Nonetheless, I know what you mean. People are silly.

[animegoil.livejournal.com]

Wait, I don't see what the problem is? Like, with saying 'when I was in med school, etc etc'. I mean, I would say that. Cause that's what you were in - you can't say uni or college, cause it's not, it's a totally different environment/stage of life, so it's just... a different setting, different people, different goals and expectations that change how the etc etc event was viewed. I don't know, I find it totally natural to say that.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Well I typically say "when I was studying", if the actual topic of the conversation wasn't about what or where I was studying, just the time period the event being described it was happening in.

Besides, over here we go to universities to study medicine and law, so there is no need to say "when I was studying medicine" when you can say "when I was in uni" like everyone else does. And art schools are considered colleges most of the time.

[animegoil.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. Yeah, I was wondering if it was a cultural thing that was making me see it differently. So in England you go straight into med/law school from college? Like, it's a seamless transition or the same institution or what? In the US, a lot of people go to college, but don't necessarily continue into graduate or law or med school. And most go to graduate programs at a university different than the one they went to for college.