<p>This is the first time I have the brooding, hollow feeling that comes when school's about to start. I moved to this school for my sophomore year, and now I am about to be a junior -- and I can say that it just gets worse and worse. I've moved 8 times in my life, and this is by far the worst decision we've made. The school has a name, yes, but with its overdramatized grandeur comes unhealthy competition and a population of 2000 students with their noses high in the air -- smart or not. It's hard to be successful in competition, but there's no pride that comes with winning anything, just a checkmark on defeating the rest. We're all in perpetual competition against each other, and if given the opportunity, any one of these students would kill you if it meant getting an A in a class. </p>
<p>This is the first time that the anxiety has built up before classes have even begun.
This is the first time that I can taste the bitterness that comes out of the pores of every one of these students' skins. </p>
<p>This is the first time I'm afraid of high school.</p>
<p>CCF is a nice way to find out about your future.
My high school is a nice way to meet the people who will turn into psychopathic killers one day.</p>
<p>I think I'm doing quite fine, thanks.
I am not afraid of the competition,
I am afraid of the effect of the attitudes of the students on my own personality.</p>
<p>I'm afraid I will turn into a poor sap who gets pleasure out of seeing the negative aspects of one's life and kicks them when they're down.</p>
<p>your clever commentary makes me want to climb into my bed and just cry my sorrows away, and brood upon my lack of ability to match the witicisms you lay upon thee. </p>
<p>your mission was successful,
please go to another thread.</p>
<p>Nah. not really. Sarcasm -- I'm not sure what you're trying to go for.
as for the comfort, nah. not really. </p>
<p>Just wondering how people who go to high schools as competitive as mine deal with the egotistical personalities that tend to follow high IQ's. If you're in a pool of students who are all around the same level of intellectual ability, and yet still think themselves to be better than the rest, how do you go about respecting such people?</p>
<p>I can't speak for your high school, but I found that generally, the most "arrogant" at my school were honestly just exceptionally good at (some) things and taken for conceited due to their confidence regarding their own abilities. I suppose you ought to figure out if it's one or the other because this word, "arrogant," has been severely misused in modern English and has thus taken on quite a hazy meaning.</p>
<p>as for my high school,
i went through an inferiority complex after coming to this school from a school in north carolina -- and realizing that I went from being the smartest chick to becoming one in a hundred fifty really exceptional kids. that was tough. </p>
<p>but once that phase passed, i realized -- "damn, these kids are really *******s.</p>
<p>I went from being the top of my grade in eighth grade to just above average in my high school. Haha. I dunno. Maybe our mentalities are utterly different, but I found the experience completely awesome. It's not that I felt "above" the kids in middle school -- I didn't, but in high school, I could talk about things that I'm interested in and, say, never consider how mainstream (oh la la! ze horrorz!) it was.</p>
<p>So perhaps I'm taking too much of this "mutual experience" gig and applying it to my utterly amazing friends and being all too optimistic about the kids are your school.</p>
<p>I don't know what that kind of school environment is like, so I don't have much advice to offer you. But it seems that you've got a good head on your shoulders, and just realizing these kids' ridiculousness and being "above" it all (I don't mean that you're arrogant; I mean that you seem to have a more mature mindset) is an accomplishment to be proud of. At least you haven't fallen into their trap; that's all that matters! Focus on the good that the school has to offer you -- intellectual challenges, other bright students (some of whom must be as down-to-earth as you are; no place is full of all of one type!), etc. -- and on competing with yourself (and, as my dad always advises me, with your teachers) but with no one else.</p>
<p>Not talking to them seems like an easy way to avoid the effects of their personalities. Minimizing contact always works. That being said, it might be more difficult for you. I find being anti-social/solitary exceptionally easy.</p>