<p>^It’s not jelously, they are no where near jelous of those nerds with no social life. They mock them because they are glad they aren’t them, the only people who say that the jocks and alike are jelous of the nerds are the nerds.</p>
<p>lol @djamieson you are proving my point.</p>
<p>Let me put this clearly. I am not smart, but I am above average, in my belief. The reason to why intelligent/academically successfully students are often shunned from society, is that they do not conform to the rules of High School. In High School, you’re required to be fashionable, aggressive (very important), rule-breaking, conforming, etcetera. Most of these characteristics are, usually, unapparent in smart students. Therefore, they’re labelled as dull, friendless, and just downright boring. </p>
<p>And honestly, I can relate. The most entertaining people I’ve come across in school have been those who fail academically. They’re far more outgoing, and witty, than smarter students. This maybe because of their conformity to their surrounding environment, which gives them confidence, to be able to act in this manner.</p>
<p>To wrap it up though, High School is a very short period of your life. I strongly believe that smarter students become more successful as adults afterwards, not just academically, but socially as well. Believe it or not, it’s true. Kids who aren’t social in high school tend to be exemplary working adults later on.</p>
<p>High school is immature. Be a loner, or be a conformer.</p>
<p>this is nothing. the kids in my high school really don’t care. now my guidance counselor on the other hand… >:(</p>
<p>I go to the same type of high school, its a 2 out 10 rating and you’re only considered “popular” if you smoke weed or skip class. I like to think about it this way. In ten years we will be the successful ones because you’re only popular for four years</p>
<p>^ That’s not always true. Academic success doesn’t necessarily equal success in life.</p>
<p>That being said, I concede, nerds definitely have a higher chance of success in life than slackers/popular kids.</p>
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<p>lol those are the people everyone hates at my large public school. My class really has no stand out popular people but I would consider myself one of the most popular considering I’m the class president. What makes you popular is basically how sociable you are.
The least-popular kids are the smokers and druggies because my school is predominantly Indian/Asian</p>
<p>It’s mainly the fact that many intelligent people have horrid social skills, whereas the “unsmart kids” know how to hold a conversation or not give off intensely awkward body language.</p>
<p>I guess, in retrospect, it is usually a trade-off. One either has lots of social skills or intelligence (at least during the high school years, from what I’ve seen this evens out in adulthood). Looking through these posts I can see why some of the people who don’t know me very well at school are shocked when they find out I’m smart. I’ve always thought I just came off like an idiot 'til now lmao.</p>
<p>Yeah I have a lot of friends and am very good at being social, and that’s why a lot of people don’t know that I get all 4s and 5s on my AP tests, am constantly on the top honor roll and am a tutor in roughly 5 different subjects haha.</p>
<p>I don’t really know any smart person at my high school who’s like outcasted against their own will. Most of the “smart” kids that don’t really have many friends are pretty mean and should be able to see it coming.</p>
<p>^Exactly! Completely freakin correct! Sorry, but I was just thinking this.</p>
<p>I go to a rowdy public high school too. In fact, only two of us in a class of 617 were national merit anything. I don’t think that the smart people are ostracized though. I am smart, and my friends are smart, but that is why I chose those friends. I could go get wasted every weekend if I wanted to with the people who might be considered “cool” or whatever, but that’s just not what I like doing. That’s not what my friends like doing. We are still all very social. We just like being around other smart people when we can.</p>
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<p>Oh dear ‘computerobsessed’, this is exactly what I’m talking about. The idea that the the popular kids who lack booksmarts are jelous of the less popular kids with booksmarts is a fallacy made by the latter to make themselves feel better. </p>
<p>Those people tend to tease nerds because it makes themselves feel good, picking on a weaker type. There is no jelously, just flexing their muscles. </p>
<p>Pretty much the whole notion that people tease those who they are jelous of is a lie created to make those who are teased feel better. It’s as simple as that.</p>
<p>^It’s true, the kids who are “less academic” as the one guy said, but are very good at being social, are not jealous at all of smart people. They just tease the awkward and introverted people because they view it as a way to be seen by their friends as funny. There is no jealously there at all.</p>
<p>Exactly, thank you cod4pro. They are glad they aren’t like those shy, awkward kids. Certainly not any jelously, also often they may even be naturall smarter than the shy kids who study heaps, they just don’t choose to apply themselves.</p>
<p>Honestly after HS and/or College (depending on where you go to college) popularity and wit doesn’t really matter so much as whether you work hard and apply yourself. Pretty much if you can hold a conversation and arent totally socially awkward then you will do just fine in life. Its true that people who pick on nerds are not jealous (most of the time) they just want to be funny, or cool, or just want to be mean. Sometimes the nerds have it coming, but from my experiences they are mostly picked on for “cool points.” In the end though, the people who take 10 AP’s are more likely to succeed financially and career wise than someone who does the bare minimum.</p>
<p>At my high school, many of the “smart kids”–the valedictorians, AP students, etc are also well-known and popular. </p>
<p>As others have said, it does nothing to say that popular people will not be anything out of high school. If a person is popular because they are very approachable and friendly, those traits can definitely get them far in life. The outcasts and nerds who hold a pessimistic view about everything have a higher chance of not being successful. I know plenty of students who fall in both categories and they fall at any end of the “intelligence” spectrum.</p>
<p>Once again it shows that this forum title is terrible. It’s not about being smart, it’s the connotations associated with those who study all the time compared to those who not.</p>
<p>Too many generalisations are being made too, I love the way people think that studying hard and getting reasonable grades automatically means you’re smart. This is so not the case, often these people are not that intelligent at all, their book smarts are average and they struggle in all other elements of intelligence (lets not forget emotional intelligence and ones sociability).</p>
<p>There are also plenty of kids who are smart, get good grades and are funny, approachable and popular people. Stereotypes seem to miss this category, probably because it’s easily the best one.</p>
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<p>Uh…Ok, but if you look like the elephant man, you’ll probably have a rough time assimilating into any social structure no matter how friendly and sociable you are.</p>
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<p>Coming from that token quiet guy who isn’t necessarily hated or made fun of so much as forgotten, a lot of these “smart/funny” fellas are kinda, y’know, big-headed. They <em>think</em> they’re funny and sociable but it’s hard to play that game of being the nerd and the cool guy. Usually, it makes you look like a *****<em>. That’s *not</em> coming from the quiet guy, by the way. That’s coming from the jocks/popular kids etc.</p>