How smart were you?

While we're at it, who else here found that college was far, far easier than highschool was? In terms of workload and difficulty of the work assigned?
 
Sporko said:
While we're at it, who else here found that college was far, far easier than highschool was? In terms of workload and difficulty of the work assigned?
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Yes. Sophomore year in college was hard, but after that, I got so lazy and complacent it wasn't even funny. And other than certain papers and projects, grad school was probably worse. I had 4 day weekends for two years.
 
Sporko said:
While we're at it, who else here found that college was far, far easier than highschool was? In terms of workload and difficulty of the work assigned?
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College definitely has less busywork. Going with a field of study I was interested in made things flow too.
 
I had a 5.0 weighted GPA (4.0 unweighted) in high school and was valedictorian. Too bad that doesn't really matter in the real world.
 
In elementary and middle school, I was top 5 in my class. They even discussed moving me ahead a grade for a while but it sort of fell through (though not because of my grades slipping or anything like that.)

In high school and college, I kinda just stopped caring. Averaged around a B with minimal effort.

I have a BS in mathematics and am working on my masters in computer science.

Also, I am bad at SC4.
 
Marginal said:
College definitely has less busywork. Going with a field of study I was interested in made things flow too.
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I agree. Getting As in college has not been so difficult as grade school, but the material is still much harder. Choosing what you want to take, when you'll take it, the pace you'll take it at etc... all contribute to making college easier grade-wise. That and grade inflation.
 
I've done very poorly in normal schools.

The reason is because I was much too shy to ask my teachers for explanations... And also the fact that from time to time I wasn't grasping things the common way like the generic students did...
Like for example I used to add everything first, and then multiply, and then divide the difficult crap at the end. So I was getting the wrong results. So I was seen as someone who couldn't count and graded as such...

I attended to class and simply didn't know what I was supposed to learn from them.
So I worked with what I knew, discovered stuff on my own, and it has been enough most of the time...

School is a fucking shit hole.
It doesn't reflect intelligence. (Ask Einstein.)
All you need is to be bold, an asshole, and/or get lucky and find a herd to protect your generic sheep hide.
Although I guess that you also need to not have any serious mental difficulties...
 
The farther I advance in terms of my education, the more firmly I believe that grades are wholly inconsequential.

Doesn't stop students from bitching and begging for changes, however...
 
I always been a genius but didn't show it so I wasn't ostracized. Black geniuses are the loneliest people in the world. So I was a C student until my final year of high school which was when I stopped caring what other people thought and got all A's and 1 B.

College was easy for me, mainly because my field of study was what I was actually doing which is IT. What was hard was doing the actual work and staying up until 1 to 2 AM writing some bullshit for classes like Statistics, Literature, English, etc. I graduated in 2 years with a 3.6GPA which really doesn't matter once you are out in the real world. I could have had a 4.0 but instead of doing my projects, I went to Asia and partied it up. Good times. Plus what is the real difference between a 4.0 and a 3.6? I'm making more cheddar than the people who did better than me in school.

But grades are a reflection of how hard or how much work you accomplish and not how smart you actually are.
 
If you're trying to get into harvard for example, the difference between a 3.6 and a 4.0 gpa is probably a 50% smaller chance of getting in, lol.
 
I wish full speed aerial kicks contributed to your GPA. I'd have been 4.0. D+ with absolutely no work at all.
 
I must be the worst of the lot here: I dropped out of vocational school some years back! Damn.
 
I always considered being smart, and doing well in school are two different things. The smart thing to do, to me, is to not take a lot of what you are taught in school, especially those lessons taught at such a young age where you're likely to believe anything, to seriously. Being smart is one thing, being good in school is completely different.

Example, I had a teacher who was politically biased. Anyone who showed interest in the opposing side of his political ideals, tended not to get a lot of extra points on their tests.
 
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