Do you feel like people don't appreciate your academic intelligence?

Student Lounge College Life
61

<p>Lol, the topic basically came upon me today. Today was the next to last day of high school for me EVER and my junior friend just happened to want to talk about our Salutatorian who supposedly did something with gloves that could read your hand’s motions and transfer it to computer software for recording. At the end of her little story, I was purely not amazed because really… all the technology exists to do so and I didn’t find it remotely interesting. Up until this point she always called me a genius, but always tried to pass it off as a result of hard effort and studying, though I never do. It seems it’s no so much the lack of appreciation of my academic intelligence, but the fact that people who lack it(and admit to doing so) give too much appreciation for those with high academic intelligence who do things that aren’t really challenging. I mean seriously… taking existing technology and applying it to a different use that’s absolutely pointless and serves no real function for the use she demonstrated, LOL! It’s not like doctors can use similar technology to do surgery from around the world… OH WAIT, they can and it’s even more precise. Not a great achievement.</p>

<p>/end_rant</p>

<p>But honestly, my academic intelligence is only reflected in the grades I get without putting hardly any effort(5 A’s 1 B this semester), but it’s nothing to brag about yet some people are like OMG you’ve got good grades. Is high school even a challenge when you factor in that AP classes are just now popping into existence in high schools abroad, as our school just now started teaching the interesting ones I would have taken. :frowning: Besides, using my intelligence in PC and console gaming has been much more sentimentally rewarding and our Salutatorian can have her Ivy League college. It is of no concern to me, nor does it interest me in the slightest.</p>

<p>^Now the above seems like it has no stream of consciousness. GAH, it must have all been a rant.</p>

<p>In all seriousness, my study habits are pretty amazing as my memory is nearly photographic and I can, in a sense, think and look at a paper that might have a list of definitions as long as I viewed it a few times. It’s pretty much like a blurry picture that just takes a little train of thought to accomplish and… <em>POOF</em>… answers galore. The only way I got a B in French is because of this. :D</p>

62

<p>In all seriousness though it is quite annoying when you are perceived as the weakest link.</p>

<p>This happened to me this year. Several people that hardly knew me, assumed are better than me and treated me as if I was lagging behind them academically, thus underestimating me. Then I practically ran them over on the National Olympiad over here.</p>

63

<p>This question makes me want to vomit.</p>

64

<p>It is annoying yes, but it made me think, whether being underestimated doesn’t actually hold some merit in certain situations.</p>

65

<p>Who cares if someone underestimates you, particularly your peers. Prove them wrong and get over it.</p>

66

<p>geez everyone is getting so hostile.</p>

67

<p>
[QUOTE=Powerheadibd]

This happened to me this year. Several people that hardly knew me, assumed are better than me and treated me as if I was lagging behind them academically, thus underestimating me. Then I practically ran them over on the National Olympiad over here.

[/quote]
</p>

<p>I can identify. What happened next? They hated you? They turned you into the bad guy?</p>

68

<p>out of all the threads to bump, Why. This. One.</p>