<p>seriously....up until last year i was basically a nerd---i understood everything my teachers said and i loved learning. this year i waste more time on facebook/email/pondering useless crap than i do on homework and useful work. and i seriously don't understand as much stuff as i used to when my teachers lecture etc. i realize classes are getting harder but i'm struggling a lot more than my classmates are. i just don't get it anymore. and by it i mean school in general. i used to be a 4.0 student, getting like above 95 on every test etc...and now im getting straight (low) b's in every AP/honors class i'm taking and i have no idea why. any thoughts??</p>
<p>and yes i realize it's "more stupid" but that just emphasizes my point i guess..i used to be ocd about grammar but maybe stupid ppl dont care cuz they dont realize?</p>
<p>I thought it was girls go to mars to get smarter, at least that was how it was taught to me.</p>
<p>I know what you mean. Its that lack of focus I have too. Are you a senior? If so, its likely to be senioritis. Sometimes what works is just to go the library and do homework. I have no distractions there. Its hard I've gotten my first C and wow...that sucked. Its something one just has to push through, no short way out.</p>
<p>There's several other versions like "boys go to college to get more knowledge"</p>
<p>pretty much there was a guy's version and a girl's version... I went to elementary school in a REALLY small town... and that's pretty much what people did in their spare time</p>
<p>I feel limited this year. Freshman year, I was so motivated. Sophomore year disappointed me. This year, I don't give a fck. I basically just go to classes to show up and just barely get an A. I hate school now :]</p>
<p>lol Well I'm a Freshman... but I'm going to college next year... so I won't know whether I'm a naive freshman or if I have seniorities. I think I'm doing both this year.</p>
<p>You are not getting stupider. You are getting less smart every year. Like me. I scored 99 percentile on SAT 9's back in 6th grade. It's been dropping by intervals of 3 percent every year, which explains my 560/750/750 SAT I today. My mom claims I should be a 2300+ kid. I guess not.</p>
<p>Wow, FellowCCViewer...now I'm scared.
ALL YOUR FAULT.
Of course I wasn't so awesome as to score 99th percentile in sixth grade, but that only means I'll be more screwed if I drop by 3 percentiles a year... :(</p>
<p>...sigh. I've always felt that it's not that I'm getting stupider-I'm just getting closer to reaching my academic plateau. I just keep thinking-what if I become so stupid I can't even finish 11th grade? etc...depressing. I think my "smart"ness is a sham & only because hs is easy</p>
<p>only if you do drugs/alcohol/suffered a concussion from falling down the empire state building/suffer from alzheimers or parkinsons or strokes etc. or in any way lose brain cells would u actually get "stupider"--IQs, if you don't suffer from any of the aforementioned problems, are supposed to stay constant until you die (or until you're middle-aged and start to suffer from dementia or something).</p>
<p>some form of senioritis? or maybe just tired of studying. im hitting that stage. my gardes have not fallen, but i like to say im a lazy bum this year :)</p>
<p>The symptoms you describe fall perfectly under Senioritis. But I would definitely not rule out the possibility that you are becoming stupider, or that you were this stupid to begin with.</p>