On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:46:59PM -0800, Dakota Surmonde wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Jeff wrote:
>
> > Ah, yes, the life of the wunderkind. I've been chased by that
> > stereotype since I was a second-grader (no one-upmanship intended), and
> > I'm just now beginning to be able to live parts of it down. I've also
> > wanted a good excuse to bring that up on this thread (and I've also been
> > gone for a number of days).
>
> oh yeah, it starts young... ;)
>
> it's just, what was a challenge at 7 and a pride-thing at 17 is tiresome
> at 21
I'll see when I get there :)
>
> at least for me
>
> > Anyway, what I really wanted to point out is how competitive classes can
> > get -- to generalize, the competitive stuff comes mostly from the other
> > guys.
>
> definetly! and I've noticed that while people tend to compete in math and
> sciences (and the 'harder' the science, the greater the competition,
> generally) they *don't* tend to do so to the same degree, or with the same
> extensiveness (is that a word?) -- i.e. a group of friends might compete
> with eachother, but they won't bug that weird kid inthe back of the
> class.. (I have plenty of experience being the weird kid in the back of
> the class ;) )
In my experience, it has always been just as bad in my history classes, and english
classes. I didn't say this earlier, but my special talent isn't just math, computers,
and science it is also test taking, math and science are just what we were discussing.
So, I've seen it in all these classes, and they've always been just as upset.
>
> > high school too. Even to this day I get crap about my test scores in
> > Physics.
>
> yeah, there's that too...
>
> I'm going to toss out here (as a theory) that girls, in general, because
> they tend to be more sensitive to whether or not they are liked (yeah, I
> think it's largely socialized, but either way) are more sensitive to this,
> and more likely to take it as a negative force rather than a positive
I'll agree with that, and I was partially trying to imply that. It was actually my
stubborness that got me past those years.
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Jeff
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