<p>It's really annoying. Why can't ppl just mind their own buisness about other people's grades?</p>
<p>Tell them you got a high C, regardless of what you actually got.</p>
<p>Well im sorry i just dont like competitive people. In fact, i hate them and i feel like they’re the ones that are self-conscious b/c the reason they have to know other people’s grades is that they have to feel superior and show themselves off or they have to threaten others that score higher than them. There’s definitely something self-conscious about that.</p>
<p>I never say anything unless people ask how I did and then I just say either I did well or I could have done better. I feel like a jerk if I tell people that I got a 100 or something and I don’t want them knowing if I did horrible either.</p>
<p>People will breath down your back for your performance for the rest of your life. Regardless of whether you end up working academia, public sector, or private sector. </p>
<p>You can either learn how to deal with it now, or hide in a corner and cower in fear as the more competitive students over-take you and slowly break down your mind with their tactics to become the best. You are competing with the students who are studying the same thing as you for very few jobs. </p>
<p>If you want to become powerful you don’t have to treat people like crap, but when someone is trying to undermine your business or public image you have to be ready to dispense the “business end of the barrel.”</p>
<p>If you always think inside the box and only follow instructions from everybody else, and never bend the rules and find a unique niche for yourself and CRUSH anyone who attempts to trespass on that niche,</p>
<p>then you will always be AVERAGE. Just another number in the system. Someone who will never be in the upper pantheon of high class society. Someone disposable at the drop of the hat.</p>
<p>This is like a test. What you do in this situation may very well be what you do every time someone tries to bother you from now on for the rest of your life.</p>
<p>End it here and now. Pretend like it is all fun and games overtly, but sabotage them covertly.</p>
<p>They are plotting against you, they might be trying to take your spot or emotionally break you down to get you to drop out or leave the college!</p>
<p>Ruin their reputation so badly that they will have no other choice but to pack their things, move across the country, and adopt a new name and profession starting from the bottom!</p>
<p>Competition within the framework of free market capitalism is the motor of innovation, the engine of history! The world will become stronger under our leadership! </p>
<p>If one can’t prove his worth by being economically useful, then he’s on his own. Free markets. Private enterprise. We are the prime movers, sent by the “gods” to usher in paradise. Divine, entrepreneurial blood runs through our veins. Ours is the most perverse sense of entitlement!</p>
<p>Tell them your opinion of the grade. Like, “I did well!” or “Eh, not so hot.” And if they keep pushing you for it, be straightforward and say, “Why do you care?” I know those sorts of people, but you just have to look them in the eye and let them know you don’t care about their need to know.</p>
<p>I always went with vague statements about any grade I got (Like “well”, “decent”, or “I’m satisfied”). Me not sharing my grades has nothing to do with my competitive spirit, and everything to do with privacy. I consider myself competitive, and I’m satisfied knowing I did well compared to the median/mean the professor gives. If people want to tell me their grades, awesome. No reason I need to share mine with you, other than to satisfy your curiosity, which I don’t care about.</p>
<p>I always state my performance very vaguely if at all. If they push, “I don’t share grades.” I have no reason to share grades with anyone, so I do not.</p>
<p>I have two responses:
Really-low-or-just-don’t-feel-like-talking-about-it:
“Bluh.” This is a pretty definitive I-shall-not-be-telling answer. If they press it at that point, the other posters’ suggestion of “Why do you want to know?” is a good one. (Nobody’s ever pressed me on it.)
I haven’t gotten my grade back yet, or most anything that is not an F:
“Well, I didn’t fail!” And then I grin like a Cheshire cat.</p>
<p>I tell them my grade, maybe ask what they got as well.</p>