When people with excellent grades deride themselves...

alexissss
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:44:49 +0000

Ahhh, I can relate.

This is why I stopped sharing grades with many of my friends except for the ones who are smarter than me. Everyone else sours and sees me as a braggart. Which I’m not. My friends who surpass me in intellect comprehend my disgust at many of my grades. Others do not.
I, too, have been raised in such an environment. To me, overachieving isn’t going above and beyond, it’s simply achieving. Mother has always admonished that I work to avoid mediocrity. Even at a school ranked #1/#2 in my state, many of the students are lazy and adverse to obtaining good grades. I’m seen as a nerd for what I do when I’m not even truly intellectual.

This thread is directed at those who know they’re smart. Yet they still act as though they’re dunces. It’s a twisted way of bragging.
Heck, I know many who truly are not intelligent but are thought as such by lying about grades. Pathetic.

Many chance me threads contain people who supposedly freak out about being rejected from a top tier school though they have 2400s/4.0s.
Fishing for all the things.