<p>I'm just curious about the people on here. Most of you guys are at the top (very top actually lol) of your class. Do you hang out with the "smart" bunch? Sorry, if I'm being too, stereotypical here. My sister's "honors" kids are like that, and I've talked to friends at other schools and they have said the same.</p>
<p>Anyways, in middle school I hung out with kids who had decent grades, not top grades but decent. However, in high school, things changed, and (not to be bragging, because my grades are horrid this quarter o.o) I started hanging out with the bunch who just went through classes with the only motive of "passing". Now that I think of it, probably over 80% of our school is like that. >.<</p>
<p>It's weird because I'm probably one of the quietest people you'll ever meet. But my friends, are incredibly social. (Somehow, I befriended them, and became very comfortable being "myself" around them.) However, sometimes, I feel like I don't belong because I'm the "nerd" in the group. </p>
<p>Also, personally, do you think this influences you academically?</p>
<p>i've never hung around with acadamic excellency people.</p>
<p>My group of friends in middle school - we weren't known smart. but now, even though we are not close friends with each other anymore, we are basically known as the smarty-sporty-culturally-well rounded people.</p>
<p>My group of friends in start of highschool (9-10):
nope. none were smart. I wasn't a smarty either. I used to get 2/60 in science tests lol</p>
<p>My current group of friends:
consists of my last group of friends who have not dropped out of school. And plus some other people. They care about school but never really put in effort (eg. this is our finals week and most of them went shopping this whole week)</p>
<p>Not to be bragging but I'm the smartest person in my group of friends.</p>
<p>Anyway I don't like those 'study-study-study' students. I might be one of them. But I think I'm a bit less 'study-study'. I prefer my daring, fun, rebely, snotty friends.</p>
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Also, personally, do you think this influences you academically?
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yes. They motivate me to work harder because I know I don't want to turn out like them.
(btw i'm not btching about my friends.. they know this already. lol i lov my friends)</p>
<p>My friends are completely different from me academically. Surprisingly, I'm actually a bad influence on them academically despite how teachers regard me as a good student. My core group of 3 best friends have completely different GPA's. They go 1.75, 3.3, and 4.0. The funniest thing is when my friends who get really low grades are asked by their advisers and counselors who they've been hanging out with, and they all point at me. I am a friend socially before academically. I am more than happy to spend days tutoring my friends. My friends have reached a point where they know if they care about academics or not, so I'm not going to be there to force them to do well academically. Some friends, however, do take the initiative in asking for help.</p>
<p>I don't think its my friends that "influences" me to do well. I have an extremely competitive personallity (not the kind where I'd do anything to win a competition, but I love being in competitions) so I natually pick out my competition amongst my friends.Whenever my friends score better than me in a class I'd natrually develope a tendency to study more for the next test.</p>
<p>No my friends were and are not the smartest people in the school, but they are each passionate about something. I think their passion in different areas did help me become more well rounded (again the competition thing).</p>
<p>All of my friends are like me academically. I go to a relatively small school- we have about 90 in our graduating class and the cliques are generally divided along intelligence and grades (although the two don't necessarily correlate) The people I hang out with are all at the top of the class, we take the same classes and have a lot in common. It's nice because you have something common to gripe about and are on the same level about things.</p>
<p>My friends are all very smart, most of them smarter than me, but none of them care that much about school, so their class ranks are pretty far below mine. I need to hang out with intelligent people because I find them the most interesting and they challenge me, but I couldn't care less about their class rank, grades, ECs, etc.</p>
<p>My friends are compatible with me socially. We all go to the same parties on weekends and hang out with the same guy group. As such, we're not always perfectly matched academically. I'd say I'm the smartest of us, but not by much. All of them would be bummed to get a B, its just that I'm in the most advanced classes. Even so, we're all applying to top schools :Yale, Middlebury, Cornell, etc. So I guess, yeah, we're all smart. Well, we'll see who gets in before saying we're all smart.</p>
<p>Academically, my closest friends are in most of the same classes as me. We're in a lot of EC's together, in the same GT's/AP's, etc. Part of the reason is that once I started all GT classes, I ended up seeing a lot of the same people over and over. Thus we became friends. I do have friends who are in regular or honors classes, and I'm not as close with them because I don't see them as often.</p>
<p>I think having a circle of "smart" friends definitely does put some pressure to achieve, to keep up grades, and things like that. It also prevents you, in a way, from getting caught up with drugs and drinking.</p>
<p>Socially, most of my friends are quite outgoing and loud with each other, but more shy with strangers. It works for us. In middle school, the principal suspected us of being a "cult"...which we definitely weren't!</p>
<p>My friends and I range from decent to really, really, good, but we didn't become friends because of that at all- we were all misfits in 8th grade when our entire "team" was made up of people who didn't really talk to us :p</p>
<p>My friends are pretty diverse. My three best friends include an Indian, an East Asian, and a German.</p>
<p>They are all definitely very smart but different in how they approach school; one is absolutely brilliant but extremely lazy, one is very smart and works very hard, and one is academically inconsistent but explores other interests like swimming and acting. Their GPAs are like 3.7, 3.8, and 3.6, respectively. I have a 3.9. We all take the same classes and all, too.</p>
<p>In terms of EC's, I try to get as many of my friends to do stuff with me. However, I consistently feel like if I wasn't there to encourage them then they'd just sit around and do nothing. Like I told my friend to apply to Gov School and he got nominated. If I hadn't told him he wouldn't have even thought about it.</p>
<p>My other (non-best) friends are all very smart, too. I tend to hang out with people I have classes with, which are all the other AP/honors freaks. I guess my base of smart friends would include like 20 main people. The rest are pretty much transient.</p>
<p>Most of my friends aren't that great academically; they're average. They each have their goals, and they each know that school doesn't matter later on in life. In fact, the smartest friend I have dropped out of high school and is attending a CC now, and doing well. Some of them are in the honors/AP with me though.</p>
<p>i used to, but now i don't. although you are supposedly 'friends', you or the other is secretly competing each other, growing rivalry. which is bad.</p>
<p>my sister, however, hang out w smart ppl...i think she's okay, cus they are all really cool.</p>
<p>Actuall, yes, most of my friends are like me academically. It's partly because of the levels we have at our school. If you are in all high honors classes, you are going to see the same people and become friends with them. Because of this, I kinda lost some friends when I entered high school because they were just never in any of my classes.</p>
<p>I hang with the smart people (because the AP Science people all get lunch at the same time), the artsy people (we take a bunch of classes together), the school stereotype people aka non-football, non-lacrosse (except for the one football and one lacrosse player who are both in AP Art and Art History), non-beligerent prick people (we own the computer lab, they own the library.</p>
<p>I tend to be most-friendly with the other smart people...I cannot those people that rejoice over getting D's, talk about how they've received oral sex from three people at once, or are Nazi or KKK-inclined. I do have some friends who are not as smart as me, but most of my friends are intelligent. I think we are very competetive, so that does play a role, particularly amongst the few of us who dream of Ivy League schools, yet know that reality is quite different for people at our school.</p>
<p>My friends from this summer are some of my best friends and they are pretty similar to me. Extremely motivated and driven. </p>
<p>My friends at high school are mostly sports jocky type but I don't have any really extreme friends at school that I think I will keep in touch with after high school ends.</p>