There, I said it. I've never really been the top of any of my classes that I ever took in my schooling career. I'd definitely been... almost at the very bottom a number of times, but never the last, and definitely never the first.
So here I am - I have the highest grade in a class of 40 people, at the time that I write this.
Am I going to say I don't feel good? Do you expect some anti-climax?
Well, no, naturally, I feel pretty good about myself right now. I always used to envy all the people who somehow managed to be the best in the class. You always judge them, well, I do anyway.
They must have no lives.
Well, I never really thought that, I think that's a stupid thing to say, you have no life. It doesn't mean anything. Don't say it to people, it's not cool.
I feel part of this elite club now. Suddenly the type of people who used to not associate with me because I wasn't as good as them are the ones I find having the most in common with right now, in a classroom setting. It's so funny the way things work out.
Of course, in a class where a majority of the people either don't care much or just really struggle with the concepts, it's not saying a whole lot. I don't understand it - I find the class really easy. Do I think differently than the rest? Well, obviously, but I mean, for some reason, some people just can't grasp the notion, for example, of why
Q -> P
P
P
-
Q
isn't a valid argumentative form (for those who haven't learnt that philosophy mumbo-jumbo, it states that if Q, then P. P, therefore Q).
And they ask questions (actually most people in the class don't even bother to, and this exasperates the teacher even more), simple questions really, that I figured were understood.
I'm glad I took this course.
Edit 2011/10/04: Edited for grammar. Also, I should say that I wrote this post as a sort of ego-booster, but I hardly consider myself superior to anyone else.
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