<p>I thought I was a good student until my AP Calc teacher told my class the following:</p>
<p>"There are no such things as over achievers, there are only those who achieve, everyone else is under achieving."</p>
<p>I realized it didn't matter where I was that mattered, it's what I do where I am that counts. I wanted to share his advice, do what you will with it.</p>
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Is this one of those things that you have to sit under a tree for a couple of months to understand?</p>
<p>There is such a person as an overachiever. They dedicate unnecessary amounts of time to overdoing things that seem important but really aren’t. These include retaking a 2300 SAT to get a 2400, asking for extra credit when they have a 99%, forsaking interesting classes for “rigorous” looking ones, and being all freaky-stressed-out.</p>
<p>You only go around once. Might as well enjoy it.</p>
<p>what if you’re stranded on an island with a flamingo, then what do you make of that situation? what if it’s two flamingos?</p>
<p>the OP said “it’s WHAT i DO where i am”…^there’s your answer.</p>
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<p>This is an underachiever; that person is not accomplishing as much as they could be in terms of college admissions. They could be getting solid (but not ridiculously high) scores or grades while focusing on their ECs.</p>
<p>This thread has taken a sudden and dark turn from its intended purpose.</p>
<p>The usual.</p>
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No, you are describing a sane person. “Overachiever” is a generally derogatory term indicating one who focuses on exceeding what is reasonable or necessary or desirable in a particular action, while neglecting more important things.</p>
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<p>■■■■■…Underacheiver? So when someone has a 99% and they DON’T ask for EC, they are underachieving? So when someone has a 2300 and doesn’t retake for the 2400, they are underacheiving? and when someone doesn’t stress about something, they are underachieving? Please think before you post.</p>
<p>lol energize’s odd post has ended up confusing people. He was just saying that the typical overachiever is actually an underachiever, but of course we all know that - that is what billymc’s post implied.</p>
<p>There’s a super mega-overachiever at my school. She’ll have taken 13 AP classes by the end of high school (the most you can take at my school) and she refuses to take any class that isn’t AP. I think she has enough credits to graduate, but she refuses to graduate early because she’ll lose her class rank. -_- I don’t think she sleeps. Ever.</p>
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<p>Please correct me if i’m wrong, but i don’t think energize meant that. There’s no hint that he was saying this in his post.</p>
<p>^^ whatever. Take solace in the fact that she’s feeling miserable.</p>
<p>I’m taking 11 APs by the end of high school, and I cannot consider myself particularly stressed and I sleep at least 7 hours each night.</p>
<p>I think what energize means is that “overachievers” are not exactly achieving in the right areas. They focus too much on things that are ultimately unimportant in the long run, and in the process they lose sight of the things that will actually get them where they need to go (i.e. top college) - extracurriculars, essays, good teacher relations for good rec letters, etc. Thus, in reality, they are “underachieving,” as they are not getting into the top colleges that they could have gotten into had they not focused entirely on things like raising that 2350 to a 2400 or 99% to 100%.</p>
<p>^I’m energize, and I approve of this message.</p>
<p>Stevenf, if you can manage it, then you’re not an overachiever. Clearly you have time for other things. 13 AP’s only for the sake of AP classes/rank? Bad.</p>
<p>@Stevenf 7 hours of sleep? You are not human haha :)</p>