<p>This question seems rather stupid to me. Perhaps you should try getting advice from your parents or close friends instead, so you don't have to complain about people laughing at you through the internetz.</p>
<p>In any case, what's wrong with just being yourself?</p>
<p>Hey OP, how about you stop caring what everyone else thinks of you?</p>
<p>I would be amazed by the sheer stupidity of this question, but then I remember we're dealing with the human race and that it's par for the course.</p>
<p>Plattsbourge - it just ate my cat and my dog. Now it's trashing my kitchen. It has glowing red eyes. ;)</p>
<p>Um, I don' t think the problem is about whether or not one comes off as intelligent to your instructor. I think the problem is that one comes off as a pompous ******* to fellow classmates. I can guarantee you that making friends in college isn't solely based on levels of intellect. If that were the case, we would throw calculus parties instead of keggers.</p>
<p>To make a good impression on professors, just do a couple of things. Answer their questions (but not all of them), don't be a grade grubber, and please don't correct them all the time. They hate that. If you want help making friends with your peers, try talking to them on a calm and cool level. Also, it's really annoying when people try to proclaim their "superior intelligence" to those around them who are probably equally matched in the brains department. I consider myself a smart individual, but I would **** off a lot of people if I went around shouting it from the rooftops.</p>
<p>Around here, we're all pretty smart so no one really needs to show off for others to know. There are some people that everyone knows are really really smart but they didn't really need to broadcast or brag--their accomplishments spoke for themselves (and were pretty well-known). Then there are many other modest people that you would consider above-average but you wouldn't realize the full extent of their..'impressiveness' until you really asked around. So yea...don't bother trying to show off, because the truly impressive ones are the ones that don't [need] to tell others about their achievements. They're either so accomplished that everyone already knows or they're a bunch of crouching tigers hidden dragons.</p>
<p>mcb52, what schoold do you go to?</p>
<p>^ should I get ready to take out a restraining order? Just know that it's what many cc'ers would consider a good school.</p>
<p>is it known by a 3 letter acronym?</p>
<p>it's known by a 8-letter acronym.</p>
<p>ever seen a 'normal' yet extremely hard working person at that school?</p>
<p>define "normal."
There's probably at least one since there's several hard working people around..
If you mean "dull" by "normal," I'd answer in the negative since I think everyone around is awesome.</p>
<p>if it's not Harvard you are talking about then I dont know.</p>
<p>hun, Harvard's spelled with 7 letters</p>
<p>8 letters? Massachusetts? It must be Brandeis!</p>
<p>but now the question is: what do cc'ers think of brandeis?
a better question to ask is: is there even any meaning behind "8 letters" or did i just randomly choose that number</p>
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I want the other students to envy my intelligence, but not to the extent of hating me, but recognizing my intellect and wanting to befriend me.
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<p>help them out with problem sets</p>
<p>intelligence shouldn't be the main factor in developing friendships. obviously you want to carry a conversation with the person, but normally you continue making contact with those sorts of people you don't click with after a few conversations. don't stress coming off as the smartest in class. you want to avoid that if at all possible. as you're aware, students generally don't like it because 1) everyone in the school is more or less on the same level as far as intelligence goes and 2) it usually doesn't serve any purpose but to show off. no one likes a show off. now if you're the type of person that likes to ask questions in class to understand the material better, that's fine, just don't over do it. but don't be like this one student in one of my classes who feels the need to say something about everything, and over-laughs at corny jokes the professor makes when they aren't that funny.</p>
<p>STANFORD! that's 8 letters.</p>
<p>And by the 3 letter acronym, I'm pretty sure that person was referring to HYP: Harvard/Yale/Princeton etc.</p>
<p>And, OP, Sorry about the troll thing if that really bothered you. I have a biting sense of humor sometimes, Friends?</p>
<p>I feel sorry for the OP. I bet he was an only child. His parents probably had very high expectations of him and now he feels like a failure because he finally realized that he is merely intelligent but not brilliant. My advice to the OP: get over it, depression is not healthy. Remember, there is more to life than a high IQ.</p>
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And by the 3 letter acronym, I'm pretty sure that person was referring to HYP: Harvard/Yale/Princeton etc.
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Oh I thought he meant the actual 3letter school MIT</p>