<p>So I'm not sure if this is just me, but I think it will be SO weird at college when I'm not "the smart kid" anymore. Think about it. We've all been top of our class with the highest grades, and a lot of us are looking at colleges where the applicants are just as good if not better than we are.</p>
<p>Have you thought about this? Or is it just my weird brain while I procrastinate?</p>
<p>I’ve thought about it. Honestly, I’m half excited about it and half scared ****less. To be honest, if I wasn’t the smart kid, then I’d just be an average human being, and nothing sounds worse than that.</p>
<p>I’ve done enough math and science competitions to realize that there are tons of people that are as good or better or MUCH smarter than me–and that’s fine.</p>
<p>I think I’d be dissappointed and little thrown off, but I’m also kind of looking… forward to the experience. Just a bit.</p>
<p>You’ll go from a big fish in a small pond to a little fish in a big pond. </p>
<p>I already kind of had this humbling experience when I got into my high school. So I’ve already gotten used to acknowledging there will ALWAYS be someone a little better than you in something.</p>
<p>My high school is very competitive. I don’t feel very “top of my class.” But I have gone to some camps and such that have shown me that I am not nearly as big of a star as I thought I was.</p>
<p>I’m okay with that. It’s a new challenge. And there also isn’t a standard to live up to, which is definitely helpful.</p>
<p>Arrogant much?</p>
<p>It’s not arrogance, it’s true. </p>
<p>And I get the excitement because I feel like it’ll be a hugely exciting and challenging experience. It’ll just be another one of those changes.</p>
<p>I agree with Bman alot, thats pretty much exactly how I feel.</p>
<p>Personally I feel it will be a relief.</p>
<p>As Beautifulnights said, I’ve already experienced this in high school, and I’ve come to accept the fact that there’s always someone better, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t be great.</p>
<p>I remember when I got to my HS they warned us about this. My HS only picks people who pass a test, so everyone was top at their elementary school. I thought about the possibility that I would no longer be a top student, but I guess I forgot about it since it never became a reality.</p>
<p>In college, it doesn’t really seem like there’s that sort of competition. Anyway, I got and get, respectively, some of the worst grades in Calc BC and Phys C (though everyone in the classes still treats me like an intelligent person), so I’ve already become used to not being the best.</p>
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<p>lol, it’s funny because I know people here that think that getting around the mean score on a test is failure, and it sometimes kinda is.</p>
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<p>Yeah, this. Nobody’s really treated like a smart kid, no matter their grades. You’ll just be a normal person - is that so scary?</p>
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<p>Kinda. Inferiority complex FTW?</p>
<p>I won’t be scared. </p>
<p>Basically, everyone in my small ass school (21 students) are all geniuses (or is the plural genii?). And now that I’m in the school, I’m basically mid range, if not worse. So no, I won’t be expecting being the smartest because I already realized that there are people smarter than me and thus grew out of an imaginary inferiority complex.</p>
<p>Even in my AP classes, my peers don’t know what I’m talking about half the time. I can’t wait for the day when I don’t need to stop a conversation in an attempt to explain a flippant reference to calculus or physics. Any day of the week, I’d choose to be a mediocre great before I’d choose to be an exceptional nobody. </p>
<p>If you can’t get past being the smartest in your circle, become an expert in something that’s seemingly novel. Not too many play the guitar at my school, so when my best friend pulls off a complicated riff, people think he’s God.</p>
<p>i’m excited to lose the smart girl reputation and just become one of many smart people (and probably not the smartest). it hasn’t been all that much fun. =] and to meet smart people, esp. guys. honestly, my AP classes have like a 4:1 girl-to-guy ratio. i exaggerate perhaps, but really.</p>
<p>My high school is large enough to make me realize that I’m hardly a “big fish”, regardless of my academic standing. I don’t expect college to be much different in this regard.</p>
<p>You can recreate yourself, how about, the drunk girl or …</p>
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<p>well, no, i don’t want any reputation that precedes me like my current HS reputation does. you know?</p>
<p>You saying it like it’s a bad thing to be known as drunk girl.</p>