And So It Begins

Well, school is still almost two weeks away and it has already begun.
What? School? No. The idiocy.
If you recall earlier this year, I butt heads with some of my classmate who apparently think I can (and want) to run the world myself. Now all I've wanted since I got into this program was to be the best midwifery student and then midwife, I could be (I try not to sing "In the army" after saying that, remember, "be, all that you can be, in the army") and, if I could, make the program a little kinder to the people coming in.
Some of my classmates have motivations that are considerably less munificient (not that I am the Mother Theresa of Midwifery) but these guys are out for two things it seems - popularity and attention (isn't high school over?). So when I come along, doing all kinds of extra stuff (I know, I'm awful) and getting good marks (still can't figure out how that happened) they get a little squirmy and start devising ways of taking the wind out of my sails. I know, I sound paranoid, but my friends in that class have left meetings fuming over their behaviour so I know I'm not nuts (at least, not that way).
Most of the summer I've managed to forget/block out all that nonsense. Until now. It's already started again I'm afraid.
I was so convinced that people in a program like this wouldn't fall prey to such juvenile tactics, but it is just as clique-y as ever it was in high school. The problem is that now I'm an adult. I don't go around swearing at people and flipping them off. I can't. I know now that it is a small world after all and that burning bridges today can make for some very awkward moments later when God/fate/the universe throws you together for fun with someone you can't stand.
So wish me luck this year as I go off to do battle again. Not with pharmacology or the anatomy lab, but with the crazy people I have to go to school with.
&#*$@!