How smart are you???

[Angel of Iniquity]

Here's a bit of a change in direction for this topic. Instead of answering how smart you think you are, why don't we discuss how exactly you've come to the conclusion of how intelligent / smart you are?

For example, I use the point of reference method and my point of reference isn't so obscure that it's just anyone I meet. I use my sister as my point because she can speak 7 different languages and has a bachelors degree in mathematics. Which is not the hardest degree ever, but it's not the easiest ever either.

Edit:I received an award for best original screenplay in high school. It happened also be the only original screenplay.

Well, okay, but things might get sketchy. The first signs of Hostility, we should change subject.

I single handedly passed my school in the Science MCAS(Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) in fourth grade, surpassing the entire state of Massachusetts. I failed my 8th grade year, with all 55's, but they passed my and put me in honors in 9th grade because they apparently tested me, which I had no Idea, and proved I was more than capable. They also put me in a college course in that first year of high school, in which my teacher told me I had a better reading vocabulary and reading skills than at his university.

[LocoColt04]

For example, I use the point of reference method and my point of reference isn't so obscure that it's just anyone I meet. I use my sister as my point because she can speak 7 different languages and has a bachelors degree in mathematics. Which is not the hardest degree ever, but it's not the easiest ever either.

Edit:I received an award for best original screenplay in high school. It happened also be the only original screenplay.

Quick response to your edit... LAWL SIR, EL OH EL


My sister would also be a good reference point. While she'll be the first to claim she isn't smart (math is an abhorrent terror for her), I look more at her achievements as motivation than anything else. Her major is something of a more Liberal Arts classification, and a lot of people claim that those are primarily worthless degrees, but let's look at what she's doing with it.

Next fall, she is transferring to John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, to spend her final two years of university-level* school there, and graduate with a degree in International Studies. Compounded with her business courses and years of Italian courses, she intends to go into governmental work in either country working as a translator or some other form of foreign-relations duty.

That requires a lot of intelligence. Learning the full intricacies of another language to be truly fluent... having the drive and desire to make all of those things fall into place... that's what I consider "real" smart.


Myself? I would love nothing more than to go back and finish school. Yep, I'm a dropout. Granted, the means of dropping out were beyond my control... meningitis, surgery, etc. Failing semesters due to medical misgivings... it wasn't fun. I was able to start the clean slate program at the school and wipe the two attempts I made, but it really just means starting from scrap again.

When I do, I'm actually looking at Mathematics myself. I love the logic required for the subject, and am very interested in taking it to a post-grad level, and learning more about what's beyond the basics. Theory is very intriguing to me.

*I use the term "university-level" because many of our other members hail from countries where "college" is equivalent to high school Stateside.

I failed my 8th grade year, with all 55's, but they passed my and put me in honors in 9th grade because they apparently tested me, which I had no Idea, and proved I was more than capable.

Some schools are fortunate enough to have a faculty capable of realizing the difference between "unintelligent" and "troubled." A lot of times, smart kids actually do poorly because they are bored with the subject matter.

[Angel of Iniquity]

Some schools are fortunate enough to have a faculty capable of realizing the difference between "unintelligent" and "troubled." A lot of times, smart kids actually do poorly because they are bored with the subject matter.

Yes, I was picked on, lost interest with school, and felt that I wasn't going to learn anything "learning" what they wanted me too lol.
I can't hold a convo with people in real life because they don't understand certain words lol.
Here is a different story haha

And your sister seems pretty well rounded with her smarts haha.
And sorry to here about meningitis. Spianl taps hurt... like hell...