HereRickJay made the following statement, talking about Mensa threads on message boards, particularly this one:
(Bolding mine, of course.)
Ok, so let’s prove RickJay wrong. I bet there are plenty of people on here who were lazy and/or antisocial during school. By “school,” we can mean anything from kindergarten through grad school, I guess. And if you were a jerk, too? Well, bonus points to you!
I’ll start. I was very lazy, never wanted to apply myself, and was quite antisocial, right up to about the last year in high school.
Thats me all over, yep I was lazy and anti-social, but not anymore, I reflected and found out I am capable of so much, so I aint letting it go to waste
I freely admit it. I was lazy and antisocial in high school. It goes a long way with explaining my GED and the fact that I’m going to university for the first time at 32.
It just takes some of us longer to get our head out of our arse than others.
I used to skip physics class to hang outside on the picnic tables and read Isaac Asimov books. If anyone approached me I’d sneer at them and tell them to piss off. Does that count?
Holy crap. XJETGIRLX, you are my idol. I could only hope to do something cool like that. I guess that I am anti social in the way I don’t really like doing much anything with anybody, but when I do get involved I enjoy it immensely. And I would say that I am pretty lazy in school, but I don’t really feel like doing riiiight now.
Yep, lazy and antiscoial. after the 5th grade I never did my homework and got "A"s on the tests . I drove my 8th grade English teacher nuts. One teacher threatened to get me held back if I didn’t do my homework, I repeated the 8th grade. by highschool I didn’t even bother to go into the building I just went into the woods acrossed the street and read or designed things.
I took the GED in 1981. all 5 tests in one sitting. My lowest score was 82 (math) a full 10 points lower than the next lowest. They forgot to reset the timer from the english test so I ran out of time and didn’t finish most of the last page. Did mention that I did no prep work/studying.
Oh yeah I had no (zero) friends. People thought I was weird. They might have been right
Count me in, right through school. The right through university. Somehow I managed to graduate with a dual major in philosophy and political science. I have never studied a day in my life. Skipped classes fairly consistently. Some might accuse me of, er, chemical abuse.
Anti-social? Yup. Not in a violent way, more a rejection of mores and values, most of which stuck me (then and now) as shallow and banal. 34 years old now, still the same. Dead end job to make ends meet. Not motivated by money, family, anything like that. So why try too hard. Archetypical under-achiever. Prefer my goth/industrial club and my semi-career musicianship. Not interested in selling records much either.
Lazy and anti-social in high school but my fraternity days rid me off all that. It’s hard to be anti-social in a fraternity. (Its still easy to be lazy though)
VenusProbe, me too! The only reason I graduated from high school is because I showed up to make good grades on tests. This got me a 2.1 GPA:).
Most of the time I skipped school to hang out with the Campaign for Unilateral Disarmement chicks camped out outside the base gates at RAF Lakenheath. We mostly sat in tents and drank vodka. Occasionally we’d lay our bodies out on the road in front of the gate and have to be dragged off by an SP. God, that used to piss off my dad.
Now that I have 12K to blow on a college education (thanks to the GI bill) I don’t know what to do. I’m a software developer…my job doesn’t really require a college education, but I have a vague idea I ought to at least start to get one, especially since its already paid for.
ouisey. Go get that degree. Sure you don’t need it, but the world needs more people like me. You know, over-educated slackers
Me, I am considering going back to get a Ph.D. Just figuring a way to do it with a minimum of actual work. And lets face it, a doctorate in philosophy is not a great career path but what the hell.
In my high school computer math class, I did two assignments the first couple of weeks of school, then spent the rest of the semester hacking into the computer math program disk (not a monumental feat, it was written in BASIC) and making a penis that came on screen when you booted it up.
The teacher kicked me out of class at mid-year. She sternly informed me that I had not turned in a single assignment save two due the first two weeks of school, my grade for the semester was a six, and that I could no longer remain in her class. Even though I knew it was coming and I deserved it, it was still pretty depressing. The only bright spot was when I was leaving the room to report to the vice-principal’s office to get a new class assignment, I noticed she was booting up my disk. I ran.
I wasn’t actively a jerk, but I was lazy and immature, yes. I failed out of high school because of stunts like the above. My poor parents.
Y’know, I should probably go back and preface my earlier post with the fact that I managed to graduate with a 3.8 GPA, and was accepted into Phi Theta Kappa the next year at college. Of course, that was after spending my senior year at an ‘alternative’ school whose main activity for phys. ed. was (get this) either hackey sack or frisbee.
I was an incredibly lazy, antisocial jerk (still am, really) but somehow I managed to be just productive enough to get through.
That sounds familiar, I graduated top of my class in both philosophy and pol sci, still with no study. We do not use GPA stuff this end of the world(and I do not really follow what it means).
Lazy and anti-social here too. Grade school was a breeze except I flunked out of the gifted classes because I wouldn’t apply myself. 7th grade got to be harder - actually having grades on homework (which I never did) brough down my grades to the B level.
8th grade - moved from a really REALLY big school to a tiny little rural school. Big emphasis on sports and cheerleading, both of which I thought where an inane and silly waste of time and energy. I of course spouted this reasoning off to anyone who would listen. By senior year, I had spread my apathy throughout the other seniors, like a virus. There were NO football players or cheerleaders in my class. <<sniff>> It was SO beautiful!
College - Chose my major by going alphabetically through the schools quarter by quarter… (biology, kinda - business, no - english, feh - education, sweet lord no - environmental science, why not.) And learned that getting a degree in music at the same time would dramatically help my GPA and keep me from having to study in order to keep my scholarship.
That sounds familiar, I graduated top of my class in both philosophy and pol sci, still with no study. We do not use GPA stuff this end of the world(and I do not really follow what it means).