<p>I consider myself intelligent and I have strong morals and values as well. Just because someone doesn’t reflect on the evolution of mankind or other issues to those around them doesn’t not make them lesser or incapable of such thoughts. I am actually one of those people that likes to sit quietly and think about larger issues and let ideas swarm my my mind. This doesn’t mean that I don’t have casual conversation with people. I’m a teenage girl, and I find it okay for me to want to get up to speed about relationships emerging in my small school. I also compliment my friends when they get a cute haircut, this doesn’t make me shallow. I think you’ll find that a lot of people who do engage themselves with the people around them are smart regardless if you think their conversation is below you.</p>
<p>I can slightly relate though, I am not a big fan of small talk and I would much rather discuss human psychology than kim kardashians marriage, but you can’t just spring up deep conversation with just anyone. And you know, small talk with a stranger might evolve into deep, intellectual conversation with a close friend.</p>
<p>I’m a nerd (4.0, APs, top 1% of grade), but I’m also athletic and not focused on school that much. I end up hanging out with dumb people just because I have more fun.</p>
<p>I don’t think intelligence is the important factor. Almost all of my friends are smart. The key is more so maturity. I just can’t stand immature people at all! You can have fun and joke around without being immature.</p>
<p>My friends tend to be intelligent, though they have different kinds of intelligence. One fellow is the most upbeat nerd I know, engineering gadgets left and right while trying to make his own programming language. One girl–one of my closest friends–is an aspiring writer, interested in politics, literature, and psychology. And then there are some awesome artists. It’s a mixed group, brain-wise and focus-wise, and it makes things plenty interesting.</p>
<p>I love all my friends, regardless of their intelligence but to answer your question: I hang out with both. Essentially, I have two groups of friends: my same intelligence friends, and what I like to call my stoner friends. I hang out with my intelligent friends more in school, and we do tend to talk a lot about school, but that’s awesome. Then my stoner friends, who I spend more time with on the green and basically can be insane with. Not gonna lie, my stoner friends do really boost my self-esteem.</p>
<p>I hang out with a pretty diverse group of people, but I would say I’m probably more intelligent than my super close friends. However, my super close friends are amazing people - they have creativity and passion that I can’t compare to. </p>
<p>You shouldn’t judge people based on intelligence. There’s so much more to people that defines who they are. You don’t have to be intelligent to be a great person.</p>
<p>My friends are all intelligent in different aspects. While I may be better than some of them at Maths, they pwn me at Designing and Arts. I never see myself as more or less intelligent than someone else, because I know everyone has their own strengths.</p>
<p>I tend to hang out with less intelligent people because I get along better with them. They also tend to do funner things and I have a better time with them.</p>
<p>I hang out with both but my closer friends are less book smart and more street smart but when I’m around them I act more ditzy and naive and they call me dumb</p>
<p>I hang out with funny, interesting, dynamic people. What, do you want to go around interrogating people about their sat scores to make a cut for their friendship? I don’t judge others intelligence, and they don’t judge mine.</p>
It’s a mixed group, brain-wise and focus-wise, and it makes things plenty interesting.</p>