<p>I hung out with all the really smart kids first year and I felt really bad about grades since I didn’t get good ones compared to everyone else. Now I hang out with people who aren’t as super smart and feel better about my grades. How have your friends changed you?</p>
<p>I didn’t hang out with anyone for most of high school. Now I have a couple of friends and I work (slightly) harder so they won’t think I’m a loser. </p>
<p>I have no friends.</p>
<p>I hung out with dumb kids in middle school, so my grades were trash (in my opinion) coming into high school. Starting sophomore year I started to hang out with smarter kids and my grades improved sharply. Then again, I was probably less stressed out before meeting my newer friends. </p>
<p>They say to surround yourself with amazing people, but I’ve only become more insecure and paranoid.</p>
<p>If you hang with dumb people. you get dumber( relatively).
If you hang with smart people, you get smarter.</p>
<p>I don’t think my friends’ levels of stupidity really affected me. I was the smartest out of all the friends I hung out with but my grades were never affected. Many of these friends are in CCs or low tier state schools. We rarely talked about grades. </p>
<p>I have friends of all “types” … as I told one of my friends yesterday- “It’s funny- my AP/honors friends think I’m the worst influence, but my ‘regular’ friends think I’m too innocent to function.”</p>
<p>I’m beginning to realize, though, that I have a lot of people in my life who are holding me back, and it’s not because they’re stupid (which seems to be where this thread is going), but because they’re non-ambitious and are content with mediocrity, and that kind of attitude always rubs off. I attended a program last year that was composed of brilliant (socially, academically, mentally, et cetera) and dedicated kids, and I know that those friends have turned me into a significantly better person.</p>
<p>I used to hang out with people who didn’t care about school, so my grades and attitude towards school weren’t the best. This year I’ve realized all the great things that the people in my school were doing, so now I’m very motivated and I always push myself to try harder and get involves. I always think, “If they can do it, then I should be able to do it too.” </p>