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One of the irritating things about being a theater major is that many, many of your fellow students have absolutely enormously inflated egos, and can be utter misery to work with. I think this is particularly true of other American theater majors, based on my experiences here with the other American visiting students vs. the European visiting students and native Irish. This was also one of my problems with my internship last summer -- nearly all of the other interns were disgustingly self-obsessed and egotistical, and I really couldn't stand conversations with them. I tend to forget this, at my home university -- our theater program is very small and theory-based, and like the rest of the university, the emphasis is really on expanding our knowledge rather than training us, and while of course there are always exceptions, the sort of people drawn to such a program are just less obnoxious than those at colleges with proper actor-training (or director, or designer, etc). Possibly because the students at more normal theater training colleges realy are taught to focus on themselves all the time, and most emerge with a very it's-all-about-ME attitude. And, really, that's show business, isn't it? A constant battle of egos.

And I'm just here because I actually love theater and want to explore it, and play a part in it if possible, not because I want to prove to the world that I AM A WONDERFUL PERSON LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME! Urg. I realize that inflated egos are just a part of life, and I'd find them no matter what field I'd go into, but they're just so concentrated in the theater world, and that means I'm probably going to spend most of my life surrounded by people I dislike. Whee.