/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I always end up lying about the fact that I actually study Japanese as a degree when on /jp/ because of a specific experience. I told one /jp/friend I'd gotten the e-mail of in a meetup thread about two years ago (when I'd just begun my course), and I was laughed at and ridiculed even though we had talked pleasantly for hours prior to that.

I'm amazingly happy and proud that I'm able to pursue what I enjoy (at a top level university, and thus I'd like to think I'm by no means stupid), but as we all know every /jp/ denizen is autistic and is supposed to do something mathematics based. I never see anybody claim to actually be studying Japanese as a degree. I'm often made to feel that my subject choice is a poor one that I've taken just so I can play untraslated eroge, and thereby people oversimplyify the last few years of study into something so basic that it can be obtained through raping anki flashcards.

I normally just say I study theoretical physics now if asked, as I know enough about it to get by in a discussion of it. I hope people will be more accepting of what I really do when I'm skilled enough to translate their shit for them and avoid such abominations as in pic.