Oh, yeah, I had awful teachers in grade school. It sucked knowing more than them.

But I had the opposite problem as you in college. Like, I felt like the kids there were ...snobs. And most of them were rich and white a privileged and went to these ritzy private schools when they where in grade school. I didn't. I went to the school my mom teaches at, where sometimes my teachers barely spoke English, where *all* the classic lit reading I did was on my own, because in senior English the assigned reading was Harry Potter. (Which I still resent, even though it was then and there my HP love was founded, and I'm lovin' your HP icons btw. The Sorcerer's Stone, though, is NOT what Senior AP English students should be reading.)

So I got to college, and I got a bunch of people asking me stuff like, "How could you not know that?" and "how did you even get into this school?" and "I thought you were smart". But that I mean, is understandable. If you've had a good education it's weird when people around you haven't. But what I *really* hated was the cultural aspect. Like, you're déclassé or obviously unenlightened if you like Blockbuster movies, as opposed to indie films, or if you read fantasy, as opposed to Sarte, or if you don't follow politics and current events, or if you write fanfiction. Good grief.

Sorry for the rant. I really detested that aspect of college and should never talk about it.

HEE. Thanks so much--glad you like the fic!