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<p>You and your roomate are two out of the thousands of people who go to this school. I deeply admire anybody who is able to overcome such adversities and handicaps in any form, but I was making a generalization with a disclaimer attached. Note that I said, “But this doesn’t go for all ucla students, just some…” So forgive me, if it seemed like I was trying to dwarf your accomplishments and struggles.</p>
<p>But I want to say this. People tend to compare other people’s lives to their own, so in their minds they think, “if I can do it, then other people can do it”. This is simply not true, because everyone is different. An infinite amount of variables determine the motivational strength of an individual, and your life and your friend’s lives infinitely differ. So who’s to say that your life was harder than others? (Note: this is just a generalization, do not reply with a counterexample “some guy you know”). So yeah, in general, ucla kids probably did study harder than those who went to community college. But, all I’m trying to say is that ucla kids are no different than those who went to community college. It’s just that the circumstances were different. And it’s the circumstances alone makes an individual unique, but not better.</p>
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<p>Maybe (s)he was. I honestly wasn’t annoyed by the fact that his comment was racist, because even if it was, we shouldn’t be tripping out about a small insult and blow it out of proportion. What I was annoyed about was that many of these ucla students think they are better than others, and this comment somewhat reflected this. So my long post wasn’t directed at zygote.</p>