<p>Does anyone else get annoyed when you say a word that you thought everyone smart enough to pass the 8th grade would know and the person next to you says, "Wow, that's a big word, what does that mean?" And I'm not talking about a really difficult word or anything like that. Once I said the word evident in my government class while we were doing a fake trial(I was supposed to be the DA) and the girl playing the defendant was like wait, what does evident mean? Ugh. Why can't my school stop being stupid and separate the smart kids from the dumb ones? lol</p>
<p>I totally know what you mean. The students in my school are so below-average, to say the least. I just found out that only 1 person in AP Calc passed the test last year.</p>
<p>A girl in my class was reading the blurb of a book the other day and she stumbled on the word “subtle” and asked, “How do you pronounce this?” I take it she didn’t know its definition.</p>
<p>^ Wow, that’s ridiculous! ^^ The kids at my school are so below average that we don’t have AP classes because our pricipal says that we need to use all our money on vocational classes because most of the students at my school aren’t college material anyways!!!</p>
<p>I get you, OP. I mean, there’s like NOBODY who scores over 2300 on their SAT at my school. I hate being surrounded by the intellectually inferior. GAH.</p>
<p>Yesterday, we were talking about our plans for the future in Government. Some girl openly admitted she didn’t plan to get a job, but that she would marry a wealthy man and own a boutique. No joke.</p>
<p>Eh, teenagers will be hayseeds. But some more than others.</p>
<p>Be nice guys. Just because someone doesn’t know the meaning of a word doesn’t mean they’re dumb as a brick. It’s just as mean as being mean to the nerdy kid :b</p>
<p>But the stupid ones have less capacity for hurt.</p>
<p>):< You know… intelligence presents itself in many different ways.</p>
<p>One of my friends is notorious for that. Like a few days ago, she asked me what “versatile” and later that week, “abrupt” meant and mind you, she is currently a senior and in the top 5%. But she has her way around teachers and the system (which I won’t get into).</p>
<p>Personally, I think she gets far more credit and praise for her work than she deserves because honestly, there are a number of frightening things that come out of her mouth that leave me with the impression that she’s putting on an act of being vacuous. Who knows.</p>
<p>*I admit I kinda sound like a prick, but I’m in a bad mood.</p>
<p>Look at it this way: The more “stupid people” there are, the less competition there is to enter the university of your choice. Yay!!?</p>
<p>But chances are those “stupid” people won’t apply to most of the universities “smart” people apply to. You guys are lucky to be surrounded by classmates of relatively inferior intelligence. Fair to say, my classmates in each of my classes are friggin smart as hell, to the point that someone with 160 IQ looks average in comparison.</p>
<p>The other day, I was walking home with a few friends and one of them wanted to add a few of her friends to her contacts list on her phone. She asked how to spell “Laura” and “Hernandez”, which are incredibly easy to spell if you just sound them out. I couldn’t believe it.</p>
<p>Yesterday I was talking with someone and I found out that he didn’t know some obscure fact that I knew and consequently I was able to feel superior to him for the rest of the day.</p>
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<p>Yes, because “stupid” people aren’t smart. If they were, they would be competition.</p>
<p>I had a friend who asked me if Beyonce was black. But he’s hardly stupid.</p>
<p>^^^ You win at life.</p>
<p>+1 Maplepoints</p>
<p>This is why some people have all their intelligent conversations with themselves. :p</p>
<p>^haha I seriously don’t have any intelligent friends. Everytime I try to talk about something like politics or colleges or grades, my friends are like, so can we talk about something else? lol</p>
<p>^ and ^^: I feel the same way. Nobody at school wants to talk about Python or C++ or harmonic means or carbon nanotubes or indium tin oxide or the possibility of there being a hegemony or Ayn Rand or… you get the point. It’s all about television shows, what people did in the park the other day, the results of last night’s baseball game, etc… all mundane stuff. 
I feel so lonely in that regard. Sure, I have friends, but I have to put on a whole different personality when I’m around them. If I try to start “intelligent” conversations (normal ones for me), I appear to be pretentious and nobody understands what I’m talking about, so I usually just don’t say anything at all.</p>