College at age 11...

[Lucavi]

All these world geniuses up in BG all wound up playing FFXI. Maybe SE's onto something.

[Zalius]

idk, i think it's the allure of an alternate reality. i went to GATE programs and shit when i was younger, got 100's on all of my tests and shit but i never did homework or focused on my classwork and couldn't wait to go home and play outside or play video games. it doesn't matter how intelligent you are if you're in a family situation/environment that doesn't support your development in a way that drives you passionately. it's basically going to rot, or get used in situations that = fun instead of "DO THIS PIECE OF PAPER. THEN DO THIS ONE. STAY IN YOUR SEAT BITCH. NOW SING THIS SONG. YOURE GONNA BE IN A PLAY NOW. OH YOU DONT WANT TO BE IN THE PLAY? FUCK YOU. WE'RE GONNA KEEP YOU HERE FOR ANOTHER YEAR, BITCH. OH NOW YOU WANNA BE IN THE PLAY HUH"

school is unnatural as fuck. there's no applicable return on almost everything that you have to do other than a grade. how many kids make B's so that their parents dont beat the shit out of them, but are relatively stupid otherwise? how many intelligent kids make A's and nobody gives a shit, so they do stupid shit/act out because they're better off for it?

current education system is a dirty ballsack. they don't even teach self-development in school. this place was fucked before i got here.

[thetruepandagod]

All these world geniuses up in BG all wound up playing FFXI. Maybe SE's onto something.

All of the worlds genius gathered into one game incapable of beating their perfect creation of Absolute Virtue.

[Seanr]

The most tragically stupid people I've ever known went to private schools. Somehow I don't think that has much to do with it.

Oh no, there were still idiots there, I was the smartest there. But when I went to public school they were covering Shit I had learned years before in private school. And kind of like "Hey" said, I never used to do actual classwork but always did well on tests. I have honestly never studied a day in my life in the traditional manner, I don't have the patience, even now.

[Moss]

All of the worlds genius gathered into one game incapable of beating their perfect creation of Absolute Virtue.

Only Santiago has a chance. It is his destiny.

[arus2001]

Boredom definitely contributed to my own shortcomings in school. Perhaps it could be attributed to a lack of feeling challenged, but it's been a decade or so since high school and I can barely even remember the names of people in my classes. What I do remember is being one of those types who never did homework, was "sick" a lot, skipped classes, and still wound up acing most tests while usually being the first one done. Which, depending on how fast that happened, could get some "holy shit..." comments from classmates who were probably stumped/unprepared.

[coolstorybro]
My personal escape while being stuck in class wound up being drawing. Occasionally I'd get a teacher who went batshit every time they caught me doing it, but sometimes I'd get one who thought it cool while most seemed indifferent. Of the cool ones, sometimes they'd let me doodle things related to recent lessons on the chalk board, and in our French class I sort of had an ongoing comic involving a questionably sane french butcher with a fondness for puppies. Possibly some twisted stuff for a sophomore to be putting out, and I did get a "Don't do that..." on occasion, but never an outright stoppage.

Overall, I can't really fault a teacher for not being able to properly cater to the wide variety of personalities and potential of students. This is probably why smaller classes of 10 students or less are better for suiting a given kid's learning method, but enter tight school budgets, overpopulation, lacking qualified teachers, and just a glut of bad teachers in general. Unfortunately, my bad habits of disinterest have carried on into my adult life. This makes keeping a job for more than 6 months difficult because I start picking up on flaws of coworkers, wind up covering their shit, and eventually get burnt out on how my higher ups function and either get let go because they realize I'm some kind of threat to them or I just outright stop giving a fuck. The ones I've usually kept longest involved delivery since no single day is exactly the same. Meanwhile, standing behind a counter in retail was probably like being bored in a class as a kid, only I couldn't draw on a notepad.

To this day, I've yet to find something that perpetually enamored me enough to the point of possibly making a career out of it, and that's problematic for getting too far beyond minimum wage pay. In a way, I envy those kids who were like "I wanna be a firefighter!" when young and are actually doing that now. At one point, art would've seemed like my direction, but a mix of attending a few bad schools (throwing money away~) and learning more on how the industry works, both literally and what's "popular" compared to what I liked to draw, burnt me out bad. Even now, I'm lucky to draw once every couple weeks as opposed to multiple times a day when younger. Just fucking awkward to have something you liked turned into something you... don't really hate, but the spark's gone.
[/coolstorybro]

[Quicklet]

World genius checking into this thread.

I remember in kindergarten / early elementary school I was incredibly bored by the pace of work. Parents didn't want to skip me ahead for social reasons, so I more or less spent hours on TV or video games because I had nothing better to do and didn't have the resources/encouragement to keep moving ahead. Nearly failed 8th grade because I stopped doing homework out of boredom. In my senior year of high school I would sleep through half my school day. Some teachers minded it more than others. My calculus teacher was awesome though. I would literally get in my seat, doze off within 5 minutes, and next thing I know it would be the end of class. Probably got the best grade out of everyone too.

Unfortunately a lot of that lack of encouragement led to a "well if that's all that's expected of me" work ethic, combined with the realization that I'm never going to have enough time to learn all the things I want to, so I might as well enjoy life while I'm young. Now I'm in a field where the people who WERE pushed and encouraged all along as kids have a huge advantage, and I just don't have the large chunks of free time to make up the difference quickly thanks to the joys of adulthood responsibility. Makes me wish I had gotten to the "difficult" stuff years earlier instead of watching syndicated shows and playing video games.

[Skidz]

I was hella bored in preschool. They gave me crayons, i said "fuck you, give me color pencils."

[oldoldman]

I scored in top 2% on SATs but barely maintain a 3.6 because of the same reasons as everyone else.The only time I ever did well in High School was the year I had a girlfriend who would only have sex with me if I showed her my completed homework.

[Jememy]

The teachers in BC are on strike, they don't give letter grades on report cards they leave them blank, christmas play is cancelled, kids in Grade 7 are unsure they will be allowed to graduate to high school. Great time to be a kid.

[Chips]

When reading the article, did anyone else picture Manny from Modern Family? lol

[Deadgye]

Unlike the rest of you geniuses I didn't start getting bored until middle school. Somewhere around 6th grade I think I just stopped doing homework for math and science classes because I personally felt there was no reason to do it. Why should I practice something I can do in my head with little trouble? I was offered to go into the "advanced" classes but never offered to skip a grade. Of course I asked if there was more homework and the reply was yes, so I declined. From that point on until the end of high school I basically took it easy and did minimal work unless I was trying to challenge myself with something fun. I remember after getting 100s for the first two quarters and the midterm in physics I decided I wanted to see if I could maintain that 100 without taking notes and I did. My out for classes was usually resting my eyes/laying down while listening to the teacher or listening to music in class. Of course classes like english and social studies I always did horrible in since I never wrote any essays.

Now in college I don't even maintain a 3.0 because I've basically trained myself to have no work ethic. I truly envy people who are able to apply themselves to stuff. I hate reading though, and always have. So most of my problems nowadays are due to missing lectures or being unable to pay attention during class since I can't just read the textbook and instantly understand everything to make up for it. I'm just so unbelievably lazy. Maybe if I was able to tackle school at my own pace I could have kept myself interested and not ended up as lazy as I am today.

The one thing I know for sure is that when I eventually have children I'm going to try my best to make sure that they are able to learn at a pace that's right for them.

[arus2001]

Heh, I don't even think myself I genius. Just a mix of feeling I take things in quickly while average schooling methods weren't too tough. My hardest classes wound up being English if only because if I had no interest in the assigned reading, I rarely, if ever, read it. Instead, it was just honing in on things the teachers said about the books during class if they ever actually talked about it. Needless to say, not enough medieval fantasy was pimped in my high school days.

[test123]

Good thing he was not born in socailist europe where he would be forced to attend the same class as everybody else at his age and would be marginalized for being special.

[Kryssan]

Good thing he was not born in socailist europe where he would be forced to attend the same class as everybody else at his age and would be marginalized for being special.

You could at least take the time to spell it right considering the nature of the thread and the fact that the post editor has a spellcheck feature.

[BaneTheBrawler]

I won't say I rank as a genius; Fact is, I'm not. I'm above-average, I think, but my useful skills have languished, particularly in math (I live at my computer, the fuck do I need to remember how to do long division for?).

Even so, I was faced with similar issues, compounded by some moderate laziness and health problems. I did poorly in High School and the single semester of college I tried, but scored highly on all tests.

[Byrthnoth]

bitch, I was born bored.

+1 accomplished

[Seanr]

I'm guessing everyone here is like me and gets easily annoyed/Pissed off when those around them just generally don't know what the fuck? Like... you expect everyone to know as much as you do, and they look at you confused when you explain shit. People of all ages treat me like a damn wiki and call me with the craziest Shit because "I bet Sean knows, call him".

I just get mad when people don't understand physics and the way things should work.

I really think my intelligence level went down years ago because I wasn't around people on my level

[Ragnus]

Only thing I don't understand is

1st grade: 1+_=4 fill in the blank

Freshman year of High school: 1+x=4 find x

Why not just teach algebra in first grade and go from there?

[Seanr]

or at least basic algebra... i get what you mean. I always used to figure out algebra problems, but not the way the teacher taught us. I would fail the classwork and tests because they wanted you to show your work and explain how you got there, but I would always do the majority of them in my head just looking or staring at it.