Today I had to pick a topic for my master's thesis. There's a few subjects for each professor and each of them only has a few spots.
So I go through the list quickly, as soon as I get it. I see a topic that should be really fucking easy to find sources for, and I ask in the group chat for our entire year if it's not taken. Lo and behold, it's fucking taken. Rinse and repeat a few times, every good professor was already taken.
Ok, that's alright. Maybe I'm just a lazy retard who should've prepared beforehand. After all, if they could take these things weeks before the lists with topics were even delivered, I should have done that too. I understand that.
What I don't understand is this: I'm the only one who kept asking if this or that is taken. THE ONLY ONE. The fucking list had a bunch of topics and professors that were already taken. And yet the list didn't show that. No way to know which. And the professor that was currently holding a lecture was saying "well, you all know each other, you all know what is taken and what isn't". WHAT? WHAT???? What kind of fucking system is this? Do normies really know that much about each other? I barely know the names of these people. And apparently they already knew what is taken and what isn't, what each person has chosen. And the professor assumed that was ... normal, expected. She couldn't imagine a person NOT knowing this. Not only that, but there's a class that's similar to ours but it's a different program. We have some things in common though, and apparently this list is for the both of us. And apparently everybody is supposed to know what the other group has taken too. NORMIES FUCKING KNOW SO MUCH SHIT, so many fucking details about people that aren't even in this fucking group.
Is this a fucking hive mind? Am I disconnected from some sort of hive mind I'm supposed to know of? God damn I knew I was always a loner and the odd man out, but jesus fucking Christ, it's a fucking master's degree, most of the people have jobs and shit, some have kids and are married, how the fuck do they socialize so much to know all this kind of shit about each other? During a fucking pandemic no less, are there some fucking group chats I'm not a part of or some shit?
This kind of shit has happened more or less my entire life. I always have to go through official means, to find things out from professors or such. Otherwise I'm completely uninformed. But everybody just informs each other apparently. This is why skipping during uni was so hard for me, I always had to basically pull teeth to find out vital information that others just took for granted cause their friends would tell them.