How smart were you?

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...
 
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