WARNING: I was a bit drunk during that night, and still am, but I believe I got the gist of it all.
So I went to a bar with a) a fellow mathematician, b) an old classmate who now studies philosophy, c) someone else who also studies philosophy (as minor).
c) kept fussing about without caring for what other people (aka mostly me
) thought, especially
simply standing still in front of a bar we were about to go to, and also kept making
shallow and repetitive conversation. AFAIK I don't make any "mathematicians are the master race" jokes.
I make some remarks which are basically justified, but in rather bad taste ("That's bullshit", for example; I don't believe it got any worse than that), while a) gets plastered. I get a bit drunk, while b) and c) sober up.
Myself, a) and c) live in the same dorm. We bring home a), then bring b) to the train station so she can take her bus home.
On the way back to our dorm, c) tells me that I shouldn't judge people on intelligence/IQ and that I was basically a complete asshat for the entire evening.
I apologise, and ask if I can speak bluntly for a moment. c) agrees, and I tell her that she has been getting on my nerves all evening, for example by being repetitive, but also that it was wrong me to let that shine through, and 'pre-emptively' apologize for any further times that that should happen again, while promising to avoid it.
c) subsequently stops talking to me completely, and I go to bed.
PROBLEM: While I could care less for c) (who is the sort of shallow person I can hardly stand to be around), I kinda want to keep in touch with b), and b) and c) seem to be at least aquaintances...