<p>So, do you hide or downplay your intelligence in front of your peers?</p>
<p>You give us too much credit.</p>
<p>Kinda. I’m not that smart but I make good grades. I just don’t really make it known so that I can surprise the top 10 type people who think I’m stupid and so that people don’t constantly badger me for help.</p>
<p>No,
I don’t wag it in people’s faces though.</p>
<p>Depends who. I’m not going to keep quiet if someone asks me what I got on the test and I got an 100. But I’m not going to go up to someone and say “haha you got a D and I got an A” Well only to one of my friends, but me and him have competition in math so when I do better, I do rub it in, but when he does better, he rubs it in also. To some other people, I will say “oh that test was hard or I think I got a D” even if I didn’t think itt was too hard. It depends the relationship I have with the person and in the subject we are discussing.</p>
<p>If you go on College Confidential, you should already know the answer…</p>
<p>I do. Completely. I don’t think it works though. </p>
<p>I act stupid and joke around and poke fun at everyone. It’s a huge joke. And yet, people always badger me with requests for tutoring or even worse, cheating. </p>
<p>I’d rather be fun and laughable than a stick in the mud. People are gonna bother me anyway I suppose, so might as well make fun of them as they do.</p>
<p>And @TheKongo, your posts always crack me up haha! Especially this one! I actually laughed-out-loud.</p>
<p>My intelligence is shown to my friends in humor only because this person kept asking me what my grades were and got upset when I said “4.0”, so now I just attempt to make people laugh with my knowledge of miscellaneous facts.</p>
<p>I don’t hide it, and I would tell them my grades or test scores if they asked, but I do downplay it when I’m talking with my friends. So I don’t use very complicated words and I’ll pretend not to know stuff if they’re debating it.</p>
<p>Okay, I’m sarcastic a lot and often seemingly act stupid sometimes, but often its unorthodox thinking / esoteric actions.</p>
<p>~Why hide intelligence, when you can put it to good use outside of testing… Tutoring, interesting contributions to the class, good leadership, etc! </p>
<p>Okay, I’m going to compare this website to real life experience. Everywhere here it seems people are trying to compare stats, and get on lessers that they aren’t as smart. So by defense mechanisms, I’m bound to stand my ground and fight for my position. Same thing, when people make fun of my low SAT score, not being a member of the top 10, and going to an underrated easy-to-get-into college. But when it comes to making friends etc, I was writing a whole essay below this but instead I’ll keep it short: I don’t want to intimidate anyone.</p>
<p>I’m not that smart compared to a few people in every class I have, which are all honors/AP’s. Anyway, I tend to be very quiet and sort of introverted, so I notice they all assume I’m a very smart nerd lol (who I repeat, am not)…</p>
<p>I probably downplay it naturally, but I don’t go out of my way to act stupid. I just don’t have an overly intelligent personality, even though I get good grades.</p>
<p>No. I just talk naturally. Sometimes I sound intelligent and sometimes I don’t. (I raise my hand in class all the time, and apparently I’m wrong enough of the time that it doesn’t annoy people.)
A problem I’ve seen is that some intelligent people sound pretentious and/or scripted when they talk, and I try to avoid that. </p>
<p>(And not talking about grades isn’t downplaying your intelligence. Not talking about grades is just not being boring.)</p>
<p>Read my Posts (granted half have been removed)</p>
<p>Then Decide</p>
<p>Might as well answer the question. My friends know that I make good grades, but I joke around a ton, so most of my classmates think I’m an idiot. Heck, my history teacher thought I cheated on my first test because I goof off in class.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t call myself intelligent though. Getting good grades =/= intelligence</p>
<p>I always pretend I don’t know the answers to the questions that the teachers ask me to answer, which makes my friends give me really weird looks afterward.</p>
<p>Yes, way too much. I don’t listen in class and act stupid all the time and I’m not sure why, but it definitely doesn’t help my grades</p>
<p>I work as a janitor at my local college. Sometimes I think I’m a lot smarter than the kids that go there. You know, like sometimes I see an unfinished math problem on a chalk board and i’ll just… Finish it, like it just clicks. One time a professor saw me doing a problem and he thought I was drawing graffiti so he chased me, but I got away. He then saw the ingenious work that I wrote on the chalkboard and he tracked me down an bailed me out of jail. </p>
<p>To answer your question I wouldn’t say I “downplay” my intelligence, I just don’t really display it because I don’t know what I want to do with it. To be honest I’m a bit afraid of what I am capable of.</p>
<p>^very interesting story</p>