Will I ever finish 'Rebecca'...?

There are funny characters in life. Whether you’re at school or college or work there’s always at least one person whom you’d rather avoid. You see these well intentioned, strangely unpopular people and you ask yourself, does she ever stop talking?
Is being that loud natural for him?
Will she ever learn not to call everyone ‘sweety’?
Will he stop trying to pick his nose in public?

And the worst part is you can never tell them these things because if you do, you’re mean. Like those snobby cheerleaders in American teen flicks.

I have something I must do before I graduate. The college library has this one copy of Daphne du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ which I have been attempting to finish for the past two years whenever I get a chance to sit down in the library (which is very rare.) So I get this great opportunity to finish it after one of my practical exams when the buses were late.

Unfortunately, the girl sitting next to me had to describe all her cousins, her vacations, why she can’t score centum in her math finals (!) while completely ignoring the ‘Silence please’ signs and my utter lack of enthusiasm in the topics she found so witty and fascinating. I pointedly kept returning to my book, but taking a hint seemed to be a harder concept for her to grasp than Fourier Transforms. I left the library after half an hour when I found I hadn’t finished reading a single page.

Popularity is too hyped. It's not all that great. So kudos to everyone who manages to be cool without jumping on the bandwagon.
If people deliberately start avoiding you though (which is totally rude, I agree, but can you blame them?) you might want to think about why and try to avoid it. You'll make a lot more friends that way.