<p>I was curious if anyone here is a perfectionist. I find myself to be a perfectionist to a certain degree. For example, if I don't feel something is perfect I won't want to hand it in and will often hand it in late, in order to getting it closer to what I think is perfect, or sometimes I won't do it. Sometimes, I can be a perfectionist when it comes to grades, like as bad as this might sound I hate 95-98's why? because its sooo close to a 100, and the way I view it, its like that one mistake got in my way. My sophmore year history teacher looked at me like I was crazy when I told him I got an 87 in APUSH (highest in the class of 22), to me there's always room for improvement wether it be an 89 or a 98. Anyway, just curious if anyone here is a perfectionist.</p>
<p>Definitely! I think I am also mildy OCD(no joke). I am just as anal about grades as you.</p>
<p>I'm a huge perfectionist too. All my friends always make fun of me for it lol.</p>
<p>Perfectionist here! haha my friends make fun of me for it too, they'll say " aghh a 98 isn't good enough for you, maybe you should ask for a retake", its all in good fun, but its 100% ( not 98% lol) true</p>
<p>i don't hand things in late, i just don't sleep. :)</p>
<p>im not really. well if indeed it does look ugly or something, then i'll change it. otherwise if it looks fine then i'll leave it</p>
<p>I'll be ****ed if I get <95% on tests so yes.</p>
<p>I'm a perfectionist.
Or maybe a wanabe-perfectionist who's never perfect.
Or maybe that's my perfectionism kicking in..?</p>
<p>grrrr don't you just love A-? I hate it!!!! Luckily i only get one on quarter grades or something and not the semester. However, semester is coming up soon and i have 93 percent in Brit Lit and 94 in US history. I hate low A's. I guess i'm a perfectionist. People think i'm crazy because a 99% irritate me. Well, it's 1 point away from a hundred percent and that's just retarded. I guess i'm happy as long as i have an A, but still it's very annoying when it's a few points off.</p>
<p>errr...the girls in my classes are....like for example, my music theory teacher is OCD about writing music (like, note stems must be drawn with a ruler, note heads must be perfect upward right facing ovals, etc) and i just got frustrated. I think a perfectionist thrives on making it perfect?</p>
<p>I'm by no means a perfectionist. I study just enough to get 93%.
However, I am critical of my code :(</p>
<p>Wow, I'd never not hand an assignment in just because I don't think it's perfect. That seems counter-intuitive in terms of perfectionism, I think. Because then my grade will suffer due to the late/incomplete assignment, and where's the benefit in that?</p>
<p>I'm a perfectionist for the little things. I'll admit that I'm vain about my handwriting. Sometimes I rewrite words/letters several times if I think they look ugly. During class, I waste time agonizing over how many lines to skip and whether I should start a new page of notes or not. Or, in calc and chem, I'll take forever to copy diagrams in my notes because I want my lines straight and circles circular before I move on.</p>
<p>In terms of grades, I hate low A's because for me, they mean that I'm not quite as good as I'd like to be and that my position is precarious. I'd almost rather have a B+ than an A-. I especially hate 90s for some reason.</p>
<p>Anyway, I know I'm crazy.</p>
<p>I am not a perfectionist, I do the minimal amount of work necessary, nothing more nothing less.</p>
<p>I'm not a perfectionist, I'm just excessively pessimistic.
I'll usually be happy with a high A on a test or project, but I tend to overestimate its difficulty. Like for instance in physics I wrote this 40-page lab report when other people wrote lab reports half as long and got As. It ended up being an excellent lab report, but had I known the standards were so low mine likely would have been one of the 20-page ones. (these IB lab reports really were a huge waste of time. I could actually have been learning physics...)</p>
<p>Thankfully my high standards generally apply more to knowledge than to busywork -- I think without my excessive pessimism I definitely would not have gotten as much out of school as I have.</p>
<p>I'm not a perfectionist (I'm okay with a 90), but I think I have OCD. Like in our English class, our desks are arranged in tables. And the tables are always messed up, so I spend like 5 minutes making sure they're perfectly aligned.</p>
<p>I have Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder.</p>
<p>enough said.</p>
<p>i'm sometimes a perfectionist, usually only when it come's to lab work in ap bio or ap chem. i took ap chem last year, and it made me super anal about procedures and collecting data. that carried over into ap bio this year. i'm a perfectionist when it comes to really small details, but only in classes that i like. i couldn't care less about the stuff i do for ap econ; i hate it. </p>
<p>i've relaxed a lot now that i'm a senior. last year i was so much worse because i wanted to get good grades and crap. no i don't care at all. i love senioritis!</p>
<p>hell no. i just want the job done, or the A. to heck with 95+ </p>
<p>you should see my bathroom... :)</p>
<p>Hell no.</p>
<p>How can you survive being a perfectionist? Can you do a lot of activities? If I was a perfectionist I'd die with my schedule.</p>
<p>EDIT: heh, I didn't even read princessbell's post before I posted.. great minds think alike, eh? :)</p>
<p>haha demeter that's how i feel.. i hate an A- but i wouldn't really care that much if i got a B+ because i know that i screwed up if i recieved a B+, but with the A- it's just frustrating.</p>