Being the smart one of your class in your view makes you an acheiver academic wise, but to some of your peers you may be considered nothing more than a nerd or a geek. What exactly does the terms nerd and geek mean anyways? It seems that if someone is smart, they're called a nerd, but if someone is a slacker and doesn't do any work, then they're called the dumb ones. Which way should people go? Its so confusing...being the average kid doesn't seem to exist anymore. In order to be accepted by a certain group of peers, you have to choose. Either be smart or dumb yourself down enough in oreder to be accepted. Well, if individuality still exists, there is still many voices calling its name. There are those kids that doesn't care what people think of them. All they know is that they do what they have to do in order to make it in this world today. Once you leave from high school, reality begins to sink in and you have to learn to be your own person
Geeked up or Dumbed down, that is the question
By Babiegurlblue_08 - Posted on October 4th, 2007
In my school, it wasn't really a stigma to be smart. I was always in the honor and AP classes, and we had all been with each other for years. Of course, this does help create cliques I'm sure, but I never really felt a disdain for anyone who was in the honor classes. There were a select few that were given problems by others, but it wasn't because of their intellect unfortunately.
Times flies like the wind; fruit flies like a banana.
One great thing that happened to me in school (about a hundred years ago) was that I did not succumb to any of the cliques. I became my own person and stayed that way. There was always peer pressure, but one needs to take care of him/herself first and foremost and take care of . Fortunately for me, I was friends with many people from many cliques and for some odd reason, they all chose to accept me the way I was. Does this mean that everyone accepted me and I had no problems in school? No, it just means that I learned the art of negotiation and acceptance (with occasions of learning the Art of War) and moved on. Life happens exactly the way you direct it to.
Respectfully,
Adam
I am considered uber smart in my school and everyone seems afraid of a chick with brains. Only the people closest to me know I too bs on test essay questions, and make up answers as I go along. My true friends know that they can come to me for help and that I am not smart all the time in all subjects. Thanks for the article. We need to be who we are and forget labels.
I'm a chick with brains but that is not all of my identity...
Sincerely,
Chica de Hurdler '09
One thing that I have learned since being to college is that i could have gotten so much further if I didnt let these labels get to me. At the end of my Sr. year in high school I had to struggle just to get a 3.0. But I am not dumb. I just wasted my time, trying to be seen as something other than a nerd. And it worked, but I was capable of so much more. Now that I am in college i easily have a 3.6.
Over the summer, I found myself having to take Calculus. But I was so far ahead in my math credits in high school, that I couldve taken AP Cal. my senior year, and just not had to worry about it in college. But here I was PAYING money to take a class that I was smart enough to take two years ago.
What you wrote about in this blog is something that held me back. So I totally agree with everything u said.