<p>Phuriku has mentioned that he knows people who distinctly don’t like talking about school (how sad!) so I’m sure they are here.</p>
<p>It’s not like I talk about school 24/7, in fact most of the time I’m not talking about it. But if I’m working on something that really excites me, then ya, I’ll talk about it, and I get excited pretty easily :-). </p>
<p>For me in particular, I chose this school because I felt it was where I would be most comfortable bringing up schooly things outside of the classroom. I promise you that I’m not some kind of intellectual superhero, and I question the extent of my own intellectual capabilities pretty often, so it’s not like I will make it my mission to make you feel inferior by name-checking authors I haven’t read and I assume you haven’t either. At the same time, though, I like talking about what I’m doing in class, what ideas I have for essays, good readings I’ve done, bad readings, annoying readings, and I understand that most people don’t like talking about school at all.</p>
<p>Conversations aren’t usually about academicy things, but they can turn in that direction very easily. (Kind of like when I was hanging in the lounge, we were playing Super Mario and talking about totally stupid, mindless things, and had I not vented my frustration we would have continued to talk about stupid, mindless things and I would have liked it just the same). As long as you don’t want to shiver every time somebody mentions school, I think you’ll be okay.</p>