<p>I was competitive my freshmen year, but not intensely. I got really competitive my sophomore year. And this year I've just calmed down and relaxed a little. But for some reason everyone thinks I'm this genius, but I'm not. And everyone tries to outdo me now. Ironic eh?</p>
<p>School-wise, I was really competitive until sohpmore year. Everything was a contest. Then I realized I was being a twat about outdoing other people and chilled down about it. I admit I still can sometimes feel a little bit of a competitive twinge in me at times, and can probably still be a twat (I love that word), but eh. I'm pretty happy with what I've gotten from my high school experience (I'm feeeelin' reeaaadyy for college), and I'm graduating less than five months, so it's all gooooood.</p>
<p>But competition contest-wise, I will eat you alive. I = Major twat. And I don't care.</p>
<p>Well, most of the time. I still have a heart and I know when enough is enough. Sometimes, there isn't much of a difference from being a winner or a loser.</p>
<p>I usuallly don't compare myself with other people. I try to do the best that I can do possibly myself.</p>
<p>eh...my school is retarded and full of cheaters, so I'm competitive in the sense that I want to do well "to fight the good fight" against two people pooling answers and knowingthe questions before.</p>
<p>in terms of overall competitiveness, I don't really care. Just do well in my own case.</p>
<p>I'm usually only competitive with myself. Like if I get an 80 in a class first marking period, I'll want to try and beat it with an 85 the next marking period. It's all about goal setting, and not about being smarter than the other kids in my school.</p>
<p>I try not to be competitive with academics, but I get very competitive when it comes to theatre. I don't show it or talk about my theatre competing-ness, but I go all out in it even if we're doing a warm-up chant.</p>
<p>^I'm crazy competitive with theatre!</p>
<p>I let anyone copy off me because I dont really care. And I copy off those people when I need to. It's all about society, business and comprimising.</p>
<p>The only time I'm extra competitive is lunch lines. I absolutely hate it when people push in line when I'm like extremely hungus for food.</p>
<p>Hell ya NoFX, if someone cuts me in line I will make a scene. I don't like to let people walk all over me.</p>
<p>I'm more competitive with myself than I am with other people. The internal competition results from my own expectations and what I can achieve.</p>
<p>I don't like cut-throat atmospheres of deceit and veiled friendliness. I'm not friends with all the high GPA kids, but we all get along, and we help each other out on math problem sets, studying for tests, labs, etc. I don't know most people's GPAs and SAT scores, and I don't care to find out.</p>
<p>I've never really set out to try to beat a single person. It's more like trying to meet my own expectations that have come about as a result of other people, but I never resent other people for doing better.</p>
<p>I want everyone to be as sucessful as possible. I'll try to help people out, and teach them things they don't know or something. However, if someone else wants to start trying to compete with me, I'll rise to the challenge. </p>
<p>I also believe in perfect information, which includes SATs and rank, among other things...</p>
<p>I'm not that competitive. I have no problem with people cheating off of me, cheating off of other people, etc. If my gpa dropped to, say, a 3.0 (from a 3.85), I wouldn't really be concerned.</p>
<p>I'm competitive because I don't know anyone that will pass me so I try to make sure noone will in the future. Noone tries to compete with me though...this kid, I know, makes excuses about why I'm taking what I'm taking, but he's nowhere in league with me except for math. He's doing precalculus like me, but I'll be a year or 2 ahead him when he does Calculus BC sophmore year. I'm ahead of him in every subject though.</p>
<p>I'm not competitive at all. I hate how competitive people are. Thats why I don't like playing sports (although I do anyway, for the physical activity). If the the team I'm on doesn't win, its the end of the world for them. As far as academically, its also annoying. Whether you got higher or lower than someone on a math test is not not going to determine the outcome of your life. I've stopped answering competitive people who ask me what I got on the SAT, what rank I am, whats my GPA, what I got on my last report card, or what I got on a previous test, even though a lot of times its higher than what they got.</p>
<p>I've posted stats on this site in asking for help, and on a board asking SAT scores because everyone's was so high, I thought some of the "average" people on the site (myself included) didn't have to be discouraged from the board or something. ;P I'm pretty sure mine were among the lowest on the board, but it doesn't bother me.</p>
<p>Years from now its not going to matter if I got a 57 or 97 on a test for literary devices. What will matter is if I'm doing what I love and my grades do not to be better than everyone I know in order to do so. Being so competitive is stressful in my opinion and takes the joy out of things.</p>
<p>Someone is always going to be better than you at something. Whether or not you realize it is different. No point in becoming depressed over it.</p>
<p>Yeah, when it comes to sports I'm super competitive. </p>
<p>But academically, I'm not competitive at all. I just do my own thing. I'll gladly help out anybody who asks for it. I actually got in trouble once for letting a close friend of mine copy of a homework assignment. Teacher was gonna write a referral and everything, but she let it slide.
As long as I get an A, I'm pretty happy, whether it be an 89.5 or 1 95. I don't really care what my class rank, etc. is. Academically competitive people irk me to no end. Congrats to you and all for getting 100 on that test...yay?</p>
<p>I'm competitive, but I also have a short attention span. So with things like grades, I don't really care, as long I get good grades in my classes, but when we play review games or things like that in class, I can get really competitive with that.</p>
<p>very competitive in softball and tennis (yes, those are my loves)...in school, used to be ridiculously competitive when i went to private school, but when i switched to public it wasn't nearly as much fun. now i only have myself to compete w/... :(</p>
<p>I'm not competitive at all. Nobody can touch me anyway. ;)</p>
<p>Sure, Chaostheory :) Everyone is competitive no matter what. There are only different degrees of competitiveness.</p>
<p>True. I am competitive when it comes to the Winterbells game. :D</p>