If you’ve earned a reputation for being a smart student, due to your sweet grades and incredible brain, you will most likely agree with the following, because you know them all too well:
You do all the work in your group
Whenever the lecturer announces that class will be divided into groups for a special project, everyone always wants you to be in their group because they know you’ll help them shine. Your fellow group members always leave you to do all the major work while they flex and spend time enjoying themselves.
Everyone wants to copy your assignments
There are two major reasons why people love to copy your assignments- One: you actually get them done. Two: you do them very well and always get high scores. You often find yourself trying to avoid your coursemates.
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People ask you to do their work for them
While others scramble to copy your homework before the due date, others approach you to do theirs. Some even offer to wash your clothes, clean your room, buy you food, hook you up with their friends or even pay you to help them with their homework.
You get chosen to participate in competitions
Whenever a competition comes up, your name is at the tip of everyone’s tongue. Lecturers approach you to represent your department or the school at competitions (even when you’re not interested) because they know that your brains will win them all the prizes. Na you oh.
Everyone scrambles to sit beside you during exams
You have people coming to your room, asking to sit beside you in exams and planning special ‘formations’, so you can help them during examinations. You’ve even watched your classmates fight each other just to sit beside or behind you.
Your notes are always complete
You hardly skip classes, so your notes are always complete. A lecturer could ask to see your notes and you’d be confident enough to bring them out because you know they are up-to-date.
You’re constantly being used as a point of reference
Lecturers use your test results as a reference when addressing other students’ low scores and even ask other students to meet you for lessons. They even compare other students to you and it makes you so uncomfortable.
People assume you know EVERYTHING
People automatically assume you’re a world-class genius who knows everything about everything, so they’ll approach you at different times to ask you about different topics, from the history of countries to the origins of animals and even topics beyond your course of study and level of understanding. Even when you tell them you do not know something, they assume you’re a proud liar. Must be tough, huh?
You are constantly under pressure
People often have higher expectations of you than your peers. You are automatically expected to score the highest grades and accomplish the most in life, after school. This often puts you under pressure and makes you anxious.
You have so much random information floating in your brain
Your brain is a warehouse stocked with information you didn’t even know you had learnt. You are always surprised at how much you know about- from tech to politics to cultures and languages.
You’re sick of the annoying nicknames
You’ve earned all kinds of nicknames from your coursemates and lecturers alike, from ‘smartest to ‘Einstein’, ‘Sheldon Cooper’, ‘efiko’ and ‘professor’. While people think you like these nicknames, you secretly loathe them.
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