Recognition-- love or hate?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Does anybody hate being recognized for his or her accomplishments? </p>

<p>A few weeks ago I received a pretty significant award that teachers nominated me for and it made me feel really terrible. I loathe attention and it just makes me really uncomfortable. Not to mention the person who received this award last year is already super involved at Yale and he was an institution at my school. And then I receive it and I'm freaking out because I don't feel like that person. Huuuuge shoes to fill.</p>

<p>So. Am I the only one who despises awards? I'm pretty sure a lot of you receive recognition--anyone else hate it?</p>

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<p>Even if you hate it, it's great to put on applications.</p>

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<p>I love recognition.. because I hardly get any. My college apps will look extremely stupid compared to you guys lol. My awards section will be near total blank. Or maybe even 100% blank. Yeah I dont think I've gotten one.. unless mvp counts?</p>

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<p>certainly does count NoFX, you could also put BS like honor roll if you're desperate enough.</p>

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<p>I hate recognition.....honor roll at my school is definitely not BS, you have to have +98% avg to get it...not an easy task at all.</p>

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<p>I don't particularly like most recognition because I don't think most of the stuff that is recognized is worth being recognized ...</p>

<p>I was recently recognized for being our school's "Who's Who in Science" which is pretty much a section in the yearbook. My glorias prize involved me writing the article for the yearbook staff. However, our yearbook is student edited and the staff is rather incompetant this year, so I took full advantage of the fact that they would publish anything I wrote ....</p>

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<p>I like it. I see nothing wrong with it.
If you work hard, apply yourself, etc, then you should have some rewards. I'm just ready for it to REALLY start paying off when I start applying to colleges. I am just itching to get to college. I just love to learn and I find some aspects of my high school curriculumn just boring.
Maybe IB will put that little....opinion out in a quick second. lol.</p>

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<p>Yeah sometimes recognition is uncomfortable. At the end of last year, I agreed to do this newspaper thing where every few months this guy interviews me and writes an article about my college process in the paper. It was cool at first, but now every time an article comes out, everyone at school starts talking about it and idk it's just a little uncomfortable. Not to mention embarassing when the guy wrote about my EA deferral...</p>

<p>But it's still nice to have some recognition for your efforts.</p>

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<p>the Intel Prize patrol along with my parents came to my school. 'Nuff said.</p>

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<p>recognition is cool (since i hardly get any). of course, if the recognition your getting is negative BS, then its not good. <em>tsktsk</em> not good at all.</p>

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<p>I don't mind awards or so. What I hate is when people at school glimpse your resume and are all like "Like, what's that!??!11one" in their valleygirlesque fashion of speech. Then they tell the entire rest of the school all about your passions...sigh...</p>

<p>Did this happen to me only? ;)</p>

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<p>Like, what's that!??!11one" what ? thats 11one?</p>

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<p>!!!11one is making fun of dumb internet speak people who take their finger off the shift key while making lots of exclamation points, as in:</p>

<p>omg he so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1</p>

<p>Cough.</p>

<p>Anyway.</p>

<p>I'm ok with people knowing I received an award or something like that, but it's like nails on a chalkboard when someone else brings it up. I HATE IT.</p>