<p>^ Nope I agree completely :]</p>
<p>Imagine if people took a sociopath's view and implemented it into academics.</p>
<p>"If I poison this kid, he'll miss tomorrow's exam. That way, if I get a 96, I can pass him in GPA!"</p>
<p>haha, sadly enough, I got what I asked for in 9th grade. </p>
<p>I moved between 8th and 9th grade, also. I went from the best place I've ever resided in to some jank school in the south. It was easy being top ranked and not giving an inkling of effort. I can safely say that I, then, had a superiority complex. All I wanted was someone of "my level" would come by so we could converse about matters that are just too darn sophisticated for these mere normal kids could handle (although, those kids in general were well below "good" student). Then we moved. here. I got the intellectual ability I asked for, sure. </p>
<p>But conversation? No. It's hard conversing with any of them aboutanything besides school or academics and scores. Nothing mentally stimulating or never a good, well meaning debate. Never just a long conversation on music or never going out and just doing something stupid for the hell of it. </p>
<p>That was all with my friends who graduated in May. The last sane class of __________ high school. </p>
<p>It's not as simple as cutting out people from my life. I've moved a ton, so it has become part of me to be social and make a lot of friends. And that happened when I came here, too. Within a few days, I had a "circle" or "group" or whatever the kids call it nowadays, but within a couple months, I realized that none of the kids I met were who I expected them to be, especially with their academic talent. </p>
<p>I have friends with 4.0's and 5's on every AP test, etc, etc -- whose sense of humors are more underdeveloped than my 7 year old sister's. It's quite saddening.</p>
<p>But you can't be the only one who feels this way! I'm not saying drop your current friends from your life, but nothing's stopping you from finding other kids in your classes who also like to laugh and do stupid things.</p>
<p>There are schools that good in Ohio? I wasn't aware. It must not be one around here.</p>
<p>Yeah, we were lured into it because it sends so many students to top schools and whatnot. And then we found out that it had nothing to do with the institution itself, but because the majority of the students just tend to be obsessed and work hard (lots of asians and indians, sorry for the cliche. I'm Indian, myself.) But I suppose that the fact it makes every class as challenging as possible is a good thing, if only students just took it as a challenge to succeed, not a challenge to use dirty methods to push down the rest. Cheating, playing the system, etc. is very common and not looked down upon by fellow students just because it's considered "necessary sometimes."</p>
<p>The thing with this place is that there's no gray area. You're either truly smart and incredibly cruel, or fun people with a lack of brain capacity. </p>
<p>Being with either group for extended amounts of time is aggravating. I did and have gotten close to a ton of kids who went to this school, but they graduated. all of them. Heading off to college in a week or two. (Cornell, MIT, Upenn,UChicago, JHU, Umich ... the works.) all with their sanity with them. I don't see why the younger classes are becoming so vile when they see that the older students got in all over the place ... without killing themselves or everyone around them.</p>