<human>: I'm going to start this off by saying I'm **not** particularly smart. I got a 1950 on the SATs (pretty bad, but better than I expected). I suffered from going from being a big fish in a little pond (all A's without trying in High school, even in AP classes) to being a minuscule fish in a huge ocean(first year at UCSC(NOT even berk D: ) I fudged up and got little to no help from administration-didn't know what the hell I was doing). I finally settled on a Computer Science major with an English Lit minor (was trying to double major for a while, and at first I wanted to be in electrical engineering, kinda a flip flopper) but I'm a little behind so I took a year off to get a job, collect money and catch up at the local cc for free (financial aid!). Since I've been home, I've been out of the college life since my school is a block away, I just walk to school and go home, so there's no interaction with other collegiate minds, and I realize that most people that I meet are really stupid. A couple girls told me that fractions were too hard - but in reference to baking, "I don't understand how to do 1/2 a cup of butter!" I have started watching tv (yuck) since being home, and since I'm caught up on all the good tv shows, I've been watching cooking shows and the way they have to dumb everything down - what is their demographic- how stupid? I'm not elitist, nor do I think I'm smarter than other people, but has everyone gotten dumber?

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<bot>: I return home from college for a little and realize everyone is stupid, are they really or am I out of whack because I miss college?