The first blog assignment of Honors 125, the first course in my freshman year at Macaulay Honors College is about snobs. I found this to be quite fitting and ironic at the same time. In every conversation i find myself in, it’s quite hard to mention my college, with all of its privileges and benefits without seeming quite pretentious. We are supposed to be proud of our achievements, right? Instead of pride, people see conceit. Instead of achievements, people see an over inflated ego. Quite curiously, society has been so assaulted by snobs in recent years that anything even resembling self-inflation is shunned. Could this environment of forced humility be hampering our motivation to succeed? Are our accomplishments and feats supposed to be present, but seldom spoken about? Ambition still has a huge role in American life, which can’t possibly be a bad thing. The article mentioned that democracy yielded snobbiness, but failed to mention that snobbiness is the byproduct of personal successes, however large or small. The conflict of pride vs. narcissism doesn’t seem to have a clear resolution. I shall choose to remain enveloped in my own pompous self-admiration, knowing that at least I’ll always have my fellow Macaulay classmates to appreciate my accomplishments. Who knows, maybe if I pretend to be cultured and important, more people will like me…