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[–]Dispro 130 ポイント131 ポイント  (19子コメント)

Wow, in school he was an undisciplined braggart who scored in the 99th percentile, and these days he's undisciplined braggart who's proudly entering his 9th non-consecutive year of college with at least 40 credits to go before finishing a degree? Look out, world!

[–]BrujahRage 59 ポイント60 ポイント  (0子コメント)

He's a real go-getter, alright. Gonna set the world on meh.

[–]Trevty 27 ポイント28 ポイント  (3子コメント)

I scored in the 99th percentile for reading in 6th grade, does that mean I should have skipped more days during high school?

[–]St_Veloth 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (0子コメント)

You're only allowed to skip class if you are writing formulas and algorithms on with white marker on your bedroom window.

[–]TheFarmReport 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah - I won the spelling bee in first grade, pretty much just quit going after that #startedatthebottomnowwehere

[–]cosmiccrystalponies 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah I did okay through high school mainly B's some A's and C's on occasion so my senior year I skipped 66 days. Generally spent those days going fishing, or bowling or just hanging out at dennys smoking cigarettes and playing games with friends who I also convinced to skip that day. By senior year school really was just a waste of my time in my opinion I was 17 it was time to have fun not sleep all day at school.

[–]TheSynthetic 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

He probably hit his student loan cap too

[–]CakeyandFriends 175 ポイント176 ポイント  (62子コメント)

"Haven't went to reunions"

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[–]DLK601 98 ポイント99 ポイント  (54子コメント)

Well he said he did bad in one subject, it was probably English as well as the subjects that used it.

[–]EulersEulogy 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (5子コメント)

Haven't gone to reunions or haven't been to reunions?

[–]zoomshoes 27 ポイント28 ポイント  (2子コメント)

hadn't gonna go to the reunions

[–]elpasowestside 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I have yet to attend any reunions

[–]VoluntaryZonkey 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

You guys are missing the point though. He admitted to being cocky, and that legally makes him not liable to any cockiness in his post!

[–]miawallacescoke 40 ポイント41 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Smart but lazy...so basically 99% of reddit of course

[–]bsiformybuddyandi 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (0子コメント)

so he is the 99th percentile

[–]Just_Give_Me_A_Login 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Smart but lazy is kinda a walking contradiction, because if they were really smart they'd get off their asses and use it.

Lazy is lazy.

[–]coldb_too 77 ポイント78 ポイント  (6子コメント)

I wish he'd shut up and get my burger on the grill already.

[–]stokleplinger 28 ポイント29 ポイント  (4子コメント)

People like this are above fast food, this guy is prime barista material.. faux-intellectual, hipster level is literally too-cool-for-school...

[–]2four 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (1子コメント)

The kind of person that, while steaming milk and making pseudo-intellectual small talk with the patrons, fantasizes about a rich customer recognizing his brilliance and offering him a 6-figure salary away from his mediocre life of browsing reddit and reading manga.

[–]ItsNotThatBig 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Honestly, security guard seems to be the profession for guys like this. The ones I've gotten to know at places where I've worked have always been pretty smart guys like that without much drive or work ethic. The kind of guys who test out of all the college prerequisites and then fail their community college class because they didn't turn in any assignments. Good guys to talk to, really. As long as you can walk away when they get tedious.

[–]The_Hippopotamoose 20 ポイント21 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Save fast food for the Minorities that work hard and make it awesome.

[–]GuyFawkes99 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

All the baristas at my local Starbucks are young black or latino ladies, a few white trash hipster dudes (gauges, tatts) but nice dudes overall. I don't where this image of the too-cool-for-school barista thing comes form.

[–]BeatArmy99 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Mmm burgers for lunch sound good.

[–]JayEster 50 ポイント51 ポイント  (0子コメント)

In the 99th percentile

Can't form basic sentences

[–]DrDoofenshmirdz 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Yeah, in every genius' story, the genius always gets good marks but somehow or the other he doesn't graduate and doesn't get a good job.

[–]Cold_Frisson 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (2子コメント)

I bet professors hated him because they couldn't handle the awesomeness of his arguments. And girls, while initially attracted to his handsomeness, couldn't fathom his smart-people interests and ideas.

[–]Willow_Is_Messed_Up 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

And girls, while initially attracted to his handsomeness, couldn't fathom his smart-people interests and ideas.

http://www.theonion.com/article/area-mans-intelligence-probably-just-too-intimidat-33916

[–]viktorlogi 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Professors HATE him!

[–]fear_and_loafing 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Yeah, I tested in the "99th percentile" in some shit in high school too. I also had a learning disability when I was younger and sucked at math. I had to take college algebra three times before I passed. Can we just agree that high school equivalency tests and standardized testing doesn't mean shit?

[–]fiftypoints 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Fellow 99th percenter here. I can confirm that I am not especially quick on the uptake.

I'm more just skilled at test-taking than anything else.

[–]TheFarmReport 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well, they are good at determining parents' income levels - but I'm certain he knows that because of his brilliance, and has applied a good work ethic to the rest of his education in order to achieve... oh wait nvm.

[–]AntcuFaalb 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I know there was some subject I scored very low in I just don't remember what it was because it mattered so little to me.

English?

[–]alburdet619 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

My exact thought, you beat me to it lol. In the first sentence I was wondering how this person thought they were smart but clearly didn't understand coma usage or sentence structure...

[–]OnlyPete 27 ポイント28 ポイント  (1子コメント)

"Now watch me fuck your shit up in League of Legends for the next ten hours!"

[–]Zedrunnur 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Now I feel like I'm being cocky, but that's the way it was.

What a twat. I hope he gets pulled down to earth one of these days.

[–]blindfire40 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't know, I think we have plenty like him here already...

[–]Involution88 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

He's already in the basement.

[–]Zedrunnur 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

His mom's basement.

[–]Observerwwtdd 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I'm jealous.

I always wished I was wicked smart.

[–]konajinx 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (8子コメント)

How come all these geniuses never ever have the most basic grasp on vocabulary, spelling, or grammar?

[–]ArmadX 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (5子コメント)

grasp on

The expression is actually grasp of.

[–]aperson1729 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

That's how I usually hear it but doesn't grasp on also make sense?

[–]konajinx 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Armad is correct. I was typing faster than I was thinking. I s'pose it could be right in a weird way.

I still stand by my initial question.

[–]konajinx 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Touche.

[–]ArmadX -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (1子コメント)

It's actually touché, coming from the French for "touched" (touché), rather than the French for "touch" (touche).

Sorry, I couldn't help it.

Ninja edit: And now touch looks like a really weird word, thanks guys.

[–]konajinx 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

You're welcome. And I'm too lazy to do the fancy e for touche.

[–]Involution88 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

They learn more better so everybody else's retardation affects them more readily? They catch the stupids from everybody else while everybody else catches the smarntess from them?

[–]beckoning_cat 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (5子コメント)

This is what a lot of people don't realize, that half of geniuses fail. Some school systems warn the parents to actually not tell the kids how they score. When you are born intelligent, you don't have any ambition because you don't have to prove anything.You just don't care.I know one genius who graduated from Oxford but manages a Papa Johns (just what he likes to do) and another who works at Dunkin Donuts.

I also have the same issue that school is very tedious when it is not a subject you are interested in learning in.

BUT

No one is born knowing everything. Even geniuses have to learn like everyone else.

You don't win awards with a poor attendance. And you can't ace everything without studying. The only way that can be managed is if you have an eidetic memory.

I have met a lot of people who are very intelligent, and only one has been able to accomplish this, with an eidetic memory.

If you actually won awards and are aware of winning those awards, you are going to know which ones you won.

So much bull....

[–]St_Veloth 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (4子コメント)

So you're saying dumping everything into the Intelligence stat doesn't do anything unless you have a few points in Wisdom as well?

[–]duffman489585 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Endurance points mainly. The people I know working at NASA or getting their PhD all say they just spend a lot of time working. If you ask them how they usually feel about themselves, it's that they're generally "surprised no one's found out they're actually retarded yet"

[–]Tz33ntch 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Yeah, that kind of behavior pretty much the polar opposite of this sub's content.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

[–]autowikibot 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Impostor syndrome:


Impostor syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments. Despite external evidence of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved. Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be. Notably, impostor syndrome is particularly common among high-achieving women.


Interesting: Minecraft: The Story of Mojang | You Know Me Better Than That | Dunning–Kruger effect

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[–]spiralxuk 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

No, it's that telling a child they are smart is one of the worst things you can do to them - it discourages them from putting effort in, trying to exceed their best, and makes them give up on things where they don't succeed straight away.

You should instead praise children for the work they do, and encourage the idea that with work they can do better and get smarter. There's research that shows the difference between the two approaches can be huge, and from a personal perspective the problems in my first paragraph do sum up a lot of my life.

http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/

[–]blazing_ent 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

In doucheland

[–]The_Hippopotamoose 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

It doesn't matter how much of a genius you are, if you don't know any science, it is impossible to pass a science test. Let alone pass it in the 99th percentile. Unless this tard was watching documentaries all day instead of studying and retaining every scrap of information, there's no way this is true. If you have never learned that animal cells do not have a cell wall, your brain isn't going to fucking figure that out... Jesus.

[–]puppybitch 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (8子コメント)

the sentence structure is similar to that of a tumblr user, what a cunt

[–]yetiman223 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Is there a Godwin's Law style rule for people using "Tumblr"/"Tumblrinas"/"SJW"s anytime they're talking about anything bad?

[–]whatIsThisBullCrap 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Make one. We can call it yetiman's theorem

[–]puppybitch 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

lol, i just thought it stood out. the no punctuation and random mix between capitalizing some words but not others is pretty much exclusively a tumblr thing

[–]rudeboyskunk 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (4子コメント)

All tumblrinas are in the 99th percentile

[–]JitteryPenguin 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (3子コメント)

They are the 99%

[–]The_Hippopotamoose 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

I thought they were... like... the .000023%. How many pansexual dragon-kin feminist hindu hermaphrodites are there?

[–]Brobi_WanKenobi 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

How dare you. The number .000023 is my trigger. Check your decimal number privilege, shitlord.

[–]Samarthwiz 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Source? Link?

[–]notjawn 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

and now I'm an artist... sandwich artist :(

[–]MrDrumzOrz 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Why is it nobody that ever brags about how smart they are ever finished/went to college?

[–]Lozgamer 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

in fourth grade I scored in the 99th percentile for the Math MAP test out of dumb pic for guessing. I had a c- in math. The school was confused

[–]biglebowskidude -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Probably the worst place to post this but I'm what's called highly profoundly gifted 2e. I am very gifted in math but a complete idiot when it comes to grammar. I can talk fine but couldn't diagram a sentence if my life depended on it. Math was too easy and boring and since I was going into the family business and understood the math I needed for that, I didn't pursue it any further. This guy sounds a bit like he is full of shit but there are people like that out there. I'm going to go run and hide now. 0_o