I had a professor ask me why I wasn't like one of the explicitly name-dropped females in my cohort. In the same conversation where she told me I was a bad fit for the program and asked what my backup plan was.
>>14289019In my graduate group was a middle-aged dude who went to a small lib arts school and was top of his class, and never really 'got it' that he had been a big fish in a small pond up there where he was from.