<p>Does anyone have an overachiever story to share? I think these people are hilarious...</p>
<p>My school has a lot of overachievers...but there's this one girl in particular, a hyper overachiever, that put the rest to shame. Firstly, her hand is perpetually in the air during class. Wheather it's to ask a million questions or to have the teacher comment on her outlandish alternate history scenarios in world history (think "what if native Americans conquered Europe instead of vice versa). If she isn't allowed to dominate the class discussion, she'll wave her hand wildly in the air until the teacher calls on her. When she was in my AP LA class, her essays were not only ridiculously long but were peppered with bizarre big words that no ones uses. I had to peer edit her essay once, and the first paragraph had the words "ubermensch" and "vituperative". And once we had to do a research paper in genetics that was supposed to be 10 pages, but she goes ahead and makes her paper 40 pages and travels all the way to the east coast during her spring break to interview an "expert source" at a bigname university. Apparently the professors at the local university weren't good enough.... And did I mention she's the biggest grade grubber ever? She's an A+ student, but yet she fights the teachers over even the slightest point deductions. </p>
<p>I don't mean to disparage her or anything, im sure she'll do great things in life, but I think some people take high school a bit too seriously.... </p>
<p>After the first five lines or so, I was afraid you were someone from my school talking about me!</p>
<p>Wow, she is taking high school a little too seriously. </p>
<p>At my school, there’s a girl who annoys me occasionally when she does this…</p>
<p>So the teacher would ask a question, expecting the whole class to yell out an answer. The class doesn’t know the answer but the students are taking a little time to think about it. A person gets it and says the answer but softly and in a questioning voice. The overachiever girl hears the answer, realizes it’s the right answer and yells it out, taking the credit for herself.</p>
<p>My hand is perpetually in the air to challenge a teacher’s knowledge. I see no stimulus in a HS Curriculum, so I ask multiple questions to gain more knowledge on things.</p>
<p>Vocabulary wise… I don’t really use big words. According to my school, amnesty is a big word. Also… I proceeded to give detailed proofs of all the theorems I used in my math clubs.</p>
<p>There was this guy in my grade who took our art class pass/fail because he was afraid of ruining his GPA. And believe me, if anyone would understand that, I would - I’m such a bad artist; my lowest grade in high schools was an interim B- in Photo I. I pulled it up to a B at the semester Anyway, the photo teacher is really hard, but this teacher gives As if you’re good, and A-s if you aren’t. And despite being good at it, he still took it pass/fail, which no one does - I don’t think most people even know you can do it at our school (there’s like a limit of a couple classes or something).</p>
<p>You were being sarcastic that you wrote a seventy-six paper instead of a 10 page paper? I didn’t catch this air of “sarcasm” at all; it seems as though you were simply trying to brag.</p>
Anyway, the photo teacher is really hard, but this teacher gives As if you’re good, and A-s if you aren’t. And despite being good at it, he still took it pass/fail, which no one does - I don’t think most people even know you can do it at our school (there’s like a limit of a couple classes or something).</p>