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Two close friends of mine were named the smartest people at my school
How's that for an inferiority complex?
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>believing high school titles actually matter
That will all get erased once they reach postsecondary and get surrounded by the smartest people of other schools.
V You're pretty much buying a brand name when going to a prestigious school anyway. Most accounts I've heard say that the education quality isn't necessarily better.
Yeah, being the top student in your high school is hardly proof that you're smart. I mean, I was one of them, too, and look at how well that went.
holy shit i know that feel y'all bros
I've got a friend like that too. He's also the school's designated Computer Guy.
Abyss_Worm,
That will all get erased once they reach postsecondary and get surrounded by the smartest people of other schools.
Inversely, if you go to a lower quality college from a competitive high school, you might find yourself to be the big fish in a small pond since you no longer have to compete with people who are Ivy League bound.
Anyway, I think having smart friends can be helpful, but knowing when to stop comparing yourself to other people can be pretty difficult, especially since it is not exactly clear how much intelligence is really just luck.
I don't know where you're at or how applicable this advice is to you, but: stay focused during your junior year of high school so you can leapfrog your weary and broken classmates to end up in the top ten of your graduating class.
It's a cool, natural high.
^ Ironically enough, junior year was when I stopped caring as much. I still finished in the top 12%, and got accepted to some pretty good colleges, but it's not nearly as impressive.
I have two friends who're considered to be really smart, perhaps more so than me, but one's very asocial, the other's widely regarded as an asshole, and I have better grades than both, so it kinda works out.
People generally consider me to be quite intelligent, but there are still a damn lot of people in my school whom I consider to be somewhere in my league - about ten of them in my own class, for starters.
And I can assure you that judging intelligence by grades or overall behaviour is really, really foolish. There's this one guy in my school who had to repeat a year, is a fairly bad student, acts like a stereotypical gangster wannabe and even had some trouble with the police. Then I got to talk to him for a while, and first he started to ramble about Heroes of Might and Magic, anime, Frank Miller, Batman and other sterotypically nerdy stuff, then later in the conversation we switched to obscure history, philosophy, the meaning of life and several really abstract, difficult topics. I was surprised to see that the fellow was so damn intelligent.
I was at the top of my high school class. Then I went to a top-flight postsecondary institution (and one known for its academic difficulty, to boot), and became a great social organizer while my grades sucked, despite the nerdy reputation of the institution's students.
I got the (book) smart reputation at uni as well, despite being far from true and not having good grades or anything. It probably had more to do with me spending my idle time at the campus studying than anything.