<p>Those people who sit in class, do nothing, never pay attention, have never studied, and make really high grades!!</p>
<p>So there's this guy in my AP Calc AB/BC class. He brings his mini-laptop to school every day, and in math EVERY DAY he plays games on it, and never EVER takes notes or pays attention to the teacher. When he goes home, he just plays more video games and doesn't do any homework. We took a practice AP exam, and most people in my class got 3s and 4s (which isn't bad, considering we didn't prepare that much prior). He got 31 of the multiple choice right, and made a FIVE on the exam. He was one of the only two people in my class to do so.</p>
<p>It just really frusterates me because I study a LOT and ALWAYS pay attention and take notes in math. I was happy with my 4 on the exam, but it's not fair because he does so much less work than I do, and does so much better on the tests.</p>
<p>Do you know any people like this? Ugh it's just so frusturating.... sorry for this rant. :/</p>
<p>^I have this friend, let us call him Yogi, who is like that. I’m the student helper in his calc class, meaning I do homework, wash overheads, wander aimlessly around the school, and sleep. He always comes back there are just talks to me. Does no work. Same thing in Physics C. He doesn’t get the highest grades in everything, since he doesn’t care, but he always gets A’s and the teachers know and state aloud, that he’s the smartest kid in both classes. So annoying. But, he tries to help me with physics and is the only one who understands when I get excited about multivariable calc stuff, so I don’t hate.</p>
<p>Also, I beast him in English, so there’s that small comfort.</p>
<p>Why do more work than you need to do to get the grade you want? As far as I’m concerned, a 91 shows up the same as a 99 on my transcript (since we don’t do ±), and the teachers don’t really care.</p>
<p>Actually most teachers do notice whether you’re trying your best as opposed to just doing the bare minimum that gets you an A. And it does pay off in the end.</p>
<p>“Do you know any people like this?”
Yes. I’m similar to the person you are talking about. I don’t play game during classes, but I do other stuffs(such as homework or just some random math/physics problem) and almost never pays attention during math/science classes. However, I do not annoy other people much since they falsely believe that I work hard when I’m really a procrastinator </p>
<p>Also, even though I am good at math/science, I’m bad at history, English, and Spanish.</p>
<p>I could seriously care less if I got a 90 or a 99. It’s an A, which is all that I really want. I guess Higher v lower 90’s will matter once we get to college and there’s a harsher grading scale, but for now I’m enjoying the leniency</p>
I’m sure people do that and teachers probably do notice when you try to suck up.</p>
<p>I didn’t mean to give off that image if that’s what you’re talking about. I don’t think I’ll ask any of my 10th or 9th grade teachers for recs, and it has to do something more with what Choco posted. Also, teachers don’t take you seriously unless you take their class seriously (ie: In Spanish class, the teacher never calls on me when I raise my hand and never looks at me when I’m talking to her. I suppose it has something to do with my…many absences)</p>
<p>*I don’t do homework. This is changing now but for the most part, I do not do homework.
*I never study.
*I don’t take notes. Ever. Hell, I don’t even have any notebooks for any of my classes.
*I don’t get 100s. I usually get mid 80s to mid 90s depending on how much I choose to give a damn.</p>
<p>//^Because some people want to achieve at their highest potential level.//</p>
<p>Does not correlate with having a slightly higher “A”. I do enough work to get an A, a little more to give myself a buffer, and past that only if I feel it’s worthwhile.</p>
<p>No, I don’t know a person I’m jealous of like this.
Some people are more laid-back when it comes to their approaches with subjects that they are proficient at. That’s all.
Oh yes…sure. There’s one kid that sort of shows up and doesn’t study, blah blah etc. He gets mid B’s or low A’s. I prefer to have an A in the bag so I don’t feel comfortable operating that way. We got accepted (and are attending) the same top-20 public. Let’s see how well he does when he doesn’t show up for lectures, though.
A smattering of qualities from both sides of the spectrum is best, in my opinion. It’s called balance…and that’s more difficult than being a grind or being a “genius slacker” :rolleyes:</p>
<p>^^I never said it’s a +1 correlation. But some people want to do their best on every test, every project, every homework even if they don’t need to. For example, someone could have a 95 in a class and have a project or test coming up that they do not need to do well on. But because they DO want to do well, they try their hardest and get 100 on it…</p>
<p>^^ Perhaps. Or not. I’m more likely to believe the latter.
The truest kind of intelligence I’ve seen was in a kid that clepped out of school sophomore year and now attends college full-time. I know academically bored and not challenged when I see it. The majority of these kinds of kids aren’t. Just different ways to go about things, no?</p>
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