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View Poll Results: how smart are you? | |||
I know everything | 116 | 30.53% | |
I know something | 194 | 51.05% | |
I know nothing | 70 | 18.42% | |
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12-13-2005, 09:35 AM | #39 |
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Failed 2nd grade in elementary school, got f's through middleschool, some how got to highschool, failed the 9th grade 3times. Had a gpa of .9 before I dropped out of school at 9th grade while my friends where seniors. Did nothing benificial for a couple of years, then went to jail, which woke me up to go back to school. Took the placement test for my GED and did so well I went strait to the test. Past the test in top 3% in the nation. Then took the SAT and got an 1180. Then got into a Community collage for one year, got a gpa of 3.8 and received hope scholarship and transferred into a university. Drank like a mad man and ruined my first year there, by getting mostly F's and withdraws. my precious 3.8 turned into a 1.6 and I got on academic probation. I took two semesters off, selling cars making great money, building my car, and drinking like a mad man. Then I went to jail again which made me realize I need to concentrate on school. Went back and got 3-A's 1-b, followed by the next semester's 2A's 2B's, then summer semester 1C, which brought me upto a 2.6gpa. Now I just finished this semester with 1A1B 2F's so by looking at the statistics, I am predicting I will get real bad grades next semester then go to jail the following semester only to motivate me to come back to make good grades the semester after. I use jail as a tool of motivation. I stay strong for 2 semesters then things start deteriorating. Maybe I should try to go to jail every semester. Either way my whole point is that grades really dont say much. If a highschool dropout can get into a university on a scholarship, so can rainman.
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12-14-2005, 03:46 PM | #42 | |
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12-14-2005, 09:01 PM | #43 |
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the snail classic new world order. lol....... i didnt have to go thru as much as snail but i graduated highschool a year early even tho i never really went... and drank more then, unlike now... this sucks high school was fun college is for ppl who need an ego uplifting... i went for 1 year felt like it was a waste of time and did car things which i enjoy...
snail i might be in atlanta in a few months....
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12-14-2005, 09:04 PM | #44 |
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College is NOT Ego uplifting.. if anything, its ego destroying. Shit's hard...
I've had to drop a class.. I'm only taking 3 and I'm STILL sweating. My peers are mostly taking 5 classes and are doing better than I am. Makes me feel so below average.
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12-14-2005, 11:12 PM | #45 |
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^^^im with you on that. School is such a downer for me, and people yell at me cause im not taking advantage of being able to go. When they're right they're right, but i cant help it you know.
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12-16-2005, 01:56 AM | #47 |
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I had a 2.0 GPA in highschool for my graduating year, graduated 379 out of 405. My College GPA equivalent is 1.9
I aced all the tests, never did the HW, or assignments. I should scan my transcript and show you. The potential is there, its just my lack of motivation, and i knew i was smarter than most the 'smart kids.' Once i figured that out, i felt no need to prove my worth to anyone else. Grades mean nothing. And i drink breastmilk. |
12-22-2005, 03:03 PM | #51 |
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i think i know a lot. i never study.... EVAR, and i would make A's and B's on tests in highschool. paying attention in class was the key to that, though. however, the real challenge comes when you can pay attention in class while you're asleep!
+1 for good driver one thing to remember about school and grades, is that 95% of the time, grades are often based one whether or not a teacher likes you. i failed junior year english because my teacher was a bitch. she tried to tell me i plagerized an important essay paper (something i put A LOT of time into. no gramatical errors throughout the entire essay, but she still managed f*cked me.) oh, but the students whom she liked got A's on their papers with all kinds of spelling errors and plagerism... |
12-26-2005, 09:57 PM | #53 | |
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+1 for not needing to study, and missing out on a lot of "good" grades through high school, and even into college. Why should I work hard to do everything, when I learn just as much from paying attention in class and relaxing when I'm at home?
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12-27-2005, 06:10 AM | #54 |
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Everyone including myself believes they are smart but they just dont put effort into it, and I think true intellect is being smart enough to put in the extra effort to make a nice GPA. Rather than claiming to be smart and just lazy; smart people dont miss out on easy opportunities, anyone can get good grades if they want.
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12-28-2005, 07:20 PM | #55 |
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Intellect can probably be broken down into two parts. How fast you process things and how much info you can hold. Analogous to a computer I suppose. Some people process things very quickly when they hear it and retain the knowledge long enough to ace a test, but forget as soon as the class is over. Other people will take longer but anything that sticks sticks better to the memory. Of course it's best to have the most of both but I think there's a correlation with bigger heads and more memory while smaller heads make faster processors. So while a smaller head will tend to have a faster processor, the bigger head has more potential to have the most of both worlds and be a brainchild of sorts....theoretically speaking that is.
Ultimately excersizing your mind is the only way you can maximize what you got either way because as everyone else was saying, in one way or another, lazyness is correlated with stupidity.
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01-13-2006, 12:31 PM | #57 |
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i cant do school. no motivation whatsoever. i was 1 of 3 people in my HS class that didnt graduate.... on time. went to summer school and got my diploma. graduated with a 1.8gpa. the 2 others.. they never graduated. went to college, it didnt work out. i just dont care when im there. nowadays i practically run one of my parents companies. its still a new business. been up and running for about 1.5 years. i project that in 1.5 years, i will be running the show myself. i think that not taking things for granted is important. i know im in a better situation than alot of college dropouts (like myself). i realize this, therefore i think i can use it to motivate and benefit myself. keep in mind that these 2 family businesses were not in effect when i decided to bail on college. so having something to 'fall back on' was not even an option at the time. i personally am getting so much more out of the experience and watching 2 business grow, than actually going to a classroom and listening. with all my rambling, i guess ill just say that knowing theres a future for me to make some money is uplifting. and as GI Joe always said. 'knowing is half the battle.' what an understatement if you ask me.
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01-21-2006, 03:35 PM | #58 |
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I am the smartest person in the world. There's nothing I can't figure out, no problem I can't solve, and no hurdle I can't leap over. I am an intellectual God. When I sat down to study math homework, my brain worked up such a torrent of neuro-electric energy in the air above my house that butterflies in the surrounding area panicked, fled to the east coast of the United States, and caused hurricanes. Sorry for that, by the way. My wit is so fast it beats modified RB's in the quarter mile. One time a Harvard scholar tried to argue a point with me, and the shear immensity of my rebuttle made the administrative staff of colleges all across the country think twice about scholarship requirements, and lots of people were kicked out of school. Professor Xavier ain't got shit on me.
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01-24-2006, 06:34 PM | #59 | |
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If i weren't twice as smart as you , i would have had to read your post before i realized you were being sarcastic. I didn't even sign on to Zilvia to post this. Excuse me while i go cure the blind.
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01-24-2006, 06:47 PM | #60 | |
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