<p>for some reason i have this habit of pretending that i dont know anything, especially when im talking to those annoying people who think they know everything. sometimes when im around the top 10 people in my class i just pretend that im stupid and that i can barely do math. its kinda strange now that i think about it - i think im just bored. </p>
<p>at first i thought i could do this to go under the radar and avoid the competition at my school, but now that im graduating it doesnt matter yet i still do it. lolzzz</p>
<p>sometimes when someone asks me a question about math/sci ill just pretend i dont know it because i dont feel like explaining it - but this could just be pertained to my laziness.</p>
<p>yea I’m in the top 10 in my class, and I know someone who is like ranked 69 and is always quiet when he talks to me. Obviously, what I am saying is right, which is why I am saying it…I just hate how he thinks his opinions are correct and keeps it all inside…
I just want him to realize that he is wrong and I am right. I pity him.</p>
<p>lol OP, you almost sound like the stereotypical Berkeley student.
Smart and unwilling to help other classmates (except the stereotypical student does this because he/she is extremely intense and wants to go to medical school).</p>
<p>i think i present myself as unintelligent
but most people in my school think of me as intelligent because i’ve always been in the high classes and everyone knows my SAT scores and blah blah blah</p>
<p>but hmm
sometimes when i’m around people i don’t know
i act pretty ditzy
(for comedic value)</p>
<p>Yeah! I do the same thing! But only because I find them interesting to talk to and if I didn’t pretend i didnt know anything then we wouldn’t have anything to talk about. I only do this to a select few I know enjoys what they’re talking about and wouldn’t mind me asking. I get pretty ridiculous though like to this one computer science guy I’m like “when your computer gets a virus and you take apart the motherboard can you physically see it?” seriously you don’t have to be a computer person to answer this LOL. Yet he takes great pride in answering me as opposed to someone who shakes his head in disgust and walks away.</p>
<p>I do it all the time. People don’t know I’m smart most of the time, until they find out my test scores. I let the think-they-know-it-alls do all the talking in their nasally voices (haha, I’m thinking of one guy in particular who annoys me to no end). I despise arrogance, so I don’t act superior or anything. </p>
<p>And yeah, around my friends I act pretty stupid, but joking around. They know I’m not an airhead, but it’s much funner to be around people who are laid-back and goofing off then people who are always trying to prove they are smarter than everyone else.</p>
<p>I think acting a little stupid is the approach every smart person should take. Not acting braindead, or anything, but not having to be all competitive or anything. The people who are trying to show off their smarts are the ones who are insecure about their intelligence.
Yeah and sometimes, I just say “I dunno” if I’m too lazy, or “I don’t get it.” Then nasally know-it-all looks down his nose at me, and goes “I got a 95% last test!” Nobody likes people like that. Plus, I quite like being the underdog. And sometimes it’s funny having people explain things to you like you’re an idiot, when you’re actually doing better than they are.</p>
<p>I love to play dumb. Let the self absorbed person go through all of the effort and explain. I just think it is fun to watch him/her exert all of this energy and effort for no reason. Well, I shouldn’t say no reason…Just to prove they know something.</p>
<p>:/ as someone who’s top ten, decent stuff all around, blahblahblah, I like explaining stuff to people because… you might be helping them? What a thought! And I really appreciate when other people take the time to explain stuff to me when I don’t get it.
There’s a middle ground between being overbearing about your intelligence and not helping people.
It’s funny- even the grade-grubbers (fight over a 99 vs. a 100, etc.) at my school will help with that one math problem. Takes all types to make a world, eh?</p>
<p>There is a clear difference between “goofing” off and acting stupid. Grades and test scores don’t count towards intelligence. Most of you that act typically “stupid” probably are stupid and only validate your level of intelligence on your school record.</p>
<p>Joking around, having fun, playing games, requires some level of intelligent thought and if all you can produce is “wut, i dunno” and “i dun get it” then it’s pretty obvious you aren’t the brightest.</p>
<p>I am one of those people where everyone is asking “How the hell did he get into an Ivy?” It’s not because I talk or act dumb, but because I give off a bad image being a varsity captain, and I won’t go out of my way to show off my knowledge that nobody cares about in class (I will employ dry humor instead).</p>
<p>I do that quite a bit too. I’m so not patient.
I just pretend I forgot how to do it or something. Sometimes, which is actually true.
I ask a lot of stupid questions as well, just to make talk with people. Lol. I don’t know, it’s just a self-habit or something to avoid the “awkward silence.”</p>