<p>I’m not competitive in the sense that I’ll sabotage my classmates. Mind you, I will be secretive about what schools I’m looking at, and I will keep some activities rather low profile, for fear that others may look to join - and then when it comes to leadership roles…</p>
<p>Competition is more about seeing what people ahead of me are doing, so that I can set the bar higher for myself.</p>
<p>I do feel better if I’m the only person who got the top mark rather than if half the class received it, so I guess I compare myself to other students.
But I don’t make my inner competitiveness too obvious because unlike 20% of my class that either get all happy because of their high grade or get all depressed and go in denial because they did crap, I just kind of shrug it off. Unless I think the teacher was bias or marked something wrong of course :)</p>
<p>I’m pretty competitive when it comes to individual things, but not competitive enough to try to cheat or hurt others</p>
<p>I am competitive :b with EVERYTHING.
…whether it is playing checkers to winning a national marching band title.</p>
<p>I do NOT settle for less than success.</p>
<p>I have an ultra mega totally full out competitive friend…we do not play games together because…it just would not work out :]</p>
<p>He played cards with another one of my friends the other day in Geometry class…I had not heard a single cussword come out of his mouth before that day…</p>
<p>I switch from super competitive to just caring if I get an A. I guess it’s only with myself, not with other people.</p>
<p>There are a couple of people who compete on like, everything. If one got a 100, and the other a 98 on a test… that’s a big deal to them. Even though a 97+ is the same GPA stuff.</p>
<p>I feel like it is unnecessary pressure to compete with others, and I am just too lazy to compete. With myself I am pretty harsh though 
because I know I am smart. I can get an A easily, but without work. I like working hard for my good grades… so I get upset if I get a low A or high B because that’s a signal that I am getting lazy!</p>
<p>Oh, I just remembered something uber competitive that I did. In a lot of our classes, our teachers will either post our grades or pass them around, since we have Student IDs that no one else would bother to figure out. So, I used to always make sure that my Art History grade was higher than everyone else’s and get miffed if it wasn’t :). It basically always was though, and it merited a mention in my teacher’s rec.</p>
<p>Oh haha. A bit. Well, quite a bit, really. I have this really embarrassing subconscious habit/desire of Facebook-stalking successful competitors’ profiles for about an hour or so after a really humiliating “defeat” lol. Otherwise, I try not to show any feelings and remain genuinely supportive of people around me. :)</p>
<p>^Nice job. I see you’ve persuaded your mother to let you attend a college full of nerds lol.</p>
<p>^^Does your mother have nerdophobia or something?</p>
<p>I’ve never been competitive about grades, and definitely not in school run extra-curricular activities. I guess I’ve never had the desire to be the best in high school, and I was never involved with extra curricular activities because none really interested me.</p>
<p>I’m not really competitive, but I actually get pretty annoyed when people want to copy my homework or cheat off of me for tests. I normally don’t let a lot of people do that cause, you know, it’s my work, and I want credit for the time I put into the work and I don’t anyone just spending 5 minutes on it and getting the same amount of credit as me. </p>
<p>When people get higher grades than me, I use it as motivation to try harder. Either that or it makes me feel like ****.</p>
<p>^^^No, she just preferred a certain school for me, and one of her many arguments for it was about MIT being nerdier. Finding a suitable man and whatnot. Not that she’s a big fan of Vikram Seth. Lolololol.</p>
<p>I’m extremely, or was extreeeemely competitive in art, because I’ve always been one of the best in my age group. </p>
<p>I’m competitive about grades, but it doesn’t go like art. Probably because I know I’m just slightly smarter than average, at the best. Plus, people who are all secretive and competitive about academic things kinda **** me off… Okay I <em>do</em> get annoyed when my quiz or test grades aren’t the highest of the class when I check my grades online, hahaha.</p>
<p>Lol. It’s illogical to get competitive. I mean, sure, let there be healthy competition, but nothing to the point where things get serious. I don’t know when people will realize that we live in a world where we are all interdependent. If you don’t help the next guy, no one will ever help you. When you start helping others (I don’t, by any means, mean you should cheat) help will find its way to you.</p>
<p>I’m not competitive. I think recognition should be given where recognition is due, but I don’t think it needs to be restricted to a certain number of people. Good is good enough; you don’t have to be the best at everything. Do your best for the sake of the thing you are doing, not for the sake of being better than others. Although I say this coming from a totally uncompetitive school where I became valedictorian without consciously trying.</p>