Just how IGNORANT am I?

Sometimes, I really wasn't aware or simply didn't care about the things that I was supposed to be aware of or cared for, like the chapters that's gonna come out in the exams, or that there would be a quiz on monday or friday, or that I have to turn in this form and that form bla bla bla bla...I always ended up realizing them at the very last minute. Most of all, I hardly aware of the people around me. It's like going to class, get a seat and that's it! I really didn't want to admit it at first, but I guess I have to face the fact that I am a pretty ignorant person. There were too many a time when I said to myself, 'Oh, so that guy was in my class?'. (Just a note: The size of the class in CSM is relatively veeeery small-eventhough it increased a little bit these past few years- so one should be able to recognize at least faces, if not names).

For instance, I had this field trip to California for my PE [Petroleum Engineering] course last summer with the whole class. During that time, I was having fun seeking knowledge and talking to this one guy, let me name it SJ. After a while, I thought, why didn't I see him before, so I asked a friend and he said that that guy has always been in our class all semester.

Another example, I went to Houston for an Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition last week and I get to know a graduate student. Let me call him SJ2. He greeted me first and his first sentence was, "So, you are Nik Nik?". Erm..so he knew my name. I never knew him at all before. I bet I never saw his face. We had a good time for a couple of days, even though it was brief, so when I got back to school, I was wondering 'where the heck can I see SJ2 again'. You see, he's a very nice person and polite [and a few other good points ;p], so it would be a waste to end it there and then. Guess what happened today? Oh yeah.. I saw him, in my very own class! We had these piles of homework returned back to us at the front of the classroom and everyone was busy looking for their papers. I was talking to the friend next to me while waiting and there I saw him, his back facing me, but I was soo sure it's SJ2. I was speechless for a moment there, while inside I was laughing at myself. Gosh, just how IGNORANT am I? (@_@)