<p>I’ll admit firsthand that I’m an overachiever, but I’m not a grade-grubber. I think some of my classmates would argue otherwise, but I would never beg a teacher for an extra point or ask a teacher how I can raise my grade in a class unless I’m seriously doing badly or have a huge hole in terms of understanding. Sure, I gripe about grades sometimes, but except for the above stated reasons (and unless I know the teacher made a mistake in calculations), I seriously would never approach a teacher about my grade in a class.</p>
<p>I’m sure if I was both an overachiever and a grade-grubber, more of my teachers would hate me. But right now, none of my teachers are overtly professing resentment. I think most of my teachers like me. If anything, they might dislike the kids who goof off in class but still obsess about grades and always ask what’s going to be on the test.</p>
<p>I think most teachers are savvy enough to distinguish between overachievers who do the work and want to learn the material and overachievers who merely want the grade.</p>
<p>I believe that if a teacher is an even halfway decent teacher, they will never dislike/hate/resent a student for wanting to learn as much of the subject as possible, even if it’s more than the teacher plans to cover in the course. </p>
<p>Why the heck would a teacher teach if they didn’t want to inspire students to learn??? </p>
<p>Anniushka, I don’t know. Maybe some veteran teachers are just jaded by the grade-grubbers and/or slackers.</p>
<p>Although, I can think of one instance where a teacher might rightfully dislike an overachiever. If I was a teacher, I’d certainly dislike the annoying know-it-alls who try to display their knowledge everywhere.</p>
<p>I was trying to refer to the likable kind of student, not the annoying kind. And I think the kind of student to which I was trying to refer would be easy to distinguish from grade-grubbers and show-offs, especially if the teacher is experienced.</p>
<p>Haha. My teachers are used to overachievers/grade-grubbers and the like. That said, I think they find it pretty amusing. My Civil Engineering and Architecture teacher, for example, does this fake scowl thing whenever we argue for points – it’s not one person, it’s the class as a horde, going up to him.</p>
<p>One of my teachers in eighth grade told me that I read too much. It was just kind of funny because I saw what book she was holding in her hand and where the bookmark was and guessed (correctly) which specific quote she would be discussing. </p>
<p>I also had one teacher that after asking a ton of questions that I immediately knew the answer too got to the point where she said “ok, you can’t answer any more.” I found this incredibly amusing especially when the next question she asked was one that I really didn’t know the answer to.</p>
<p>In this class I’m taking at a college (duel enrollment), there’s this one student who seems fairly smart but is annoying and always interrupts the professor to answer questions before anyone else has a chance. Well, this professor doesn’t seem to be the type of person who would “hate” anyone; he acts cool about just about anything. Instead of getting annoyed at the student, he calmly tore up a convenient paper towel and gave the student several tokens, which s/he could use at any time through the class period to say things, until s/he had used up all the tokens.</p>
<p>The 1st day of my junior year, when my AP US teacher heard I was taking 5 AP & Honors classes he stared at my eyes for several seconds with a Shrek face (yessss he does look like Shrek :D) and announced to the class “Oh, so you are ready to have no social life…”
hahaha I really luved this teacher :)</p>
<p>overachievers need to get a life…seriously…guys there’s more to life than just numbers and colleges, yes hard for some of you to believe…and pikasof i disagree people who take 5 or more aps can actually have a life also…</p>
<p>If his dream job abroad doesn’t keep him too busy or is so interesting that it itself incorporates “having a life” [e.g., filmmaker], he might have a shot. But if his dream job is investment banking, that will be the life that he has. And he won’t have time for much else. He had better like it.</p>
<p>But you know, there is something to keeping your powder dry. Going abroad for a better life can be a really sensible move.</p>
<p>I hate overachievers. I like those who don’t try and get all As. A 92.5 is the same as a 100 to me. (if you’re on the 4.0 gpa scale). I like those who are truly interested in a subject, but there’s a big difference between someone who really likes math/english/whatever and someone who tries obsessively to impress and the teacher and studies for two hours a night in that class.</p>
<p>What’s really funny is when you are the freshman in the sophmore class and it comes time to play a review game of Jeopardy, and four, yes four, captains are fighting over you because you know the material better than all of them.</p>
<p>My teacher just smiled and watched the fight.</p>
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