This thread is amusing. It has nothing to do with intelligence (get over yourself) like so many others have already pointed out, but how you are socially.
I was forced to move to a new state during the middle of my 11th year of high school. I was of course nervous being placed in an entirely new culture (the deep south, shudder) and trying to somewhat meet new people so it wouldn't entirely be a miserable experience until I graduated.
I did pretty well in high school (4.0 GPA) and ranked higher than the school's Valedictorian (I wasn't it because I transferred in). My new classmates saw this rather quickly, but because I'm easy to talk to know how to make other people laugh, we all got along just fine and pretty soon I was respected by all the social cliques and silly groups people get in.
Oddly enough I was more popular at this new school rather than my old one. Funny how that works.
I was forced to move to a new state during the middle of my 11th year of high school. I was of course nervous being placed in an entirely new culture (the deep south, shudder) and trying to somewhat meet new people so it wouldn't entirely be a miserable experience until I graduated.
I did pretty well in high school (4.0 GPA) and ranked higher than the school's Valedictorian (I wasn't it because I transferred in). My new classmates saw this rather quickly, but because I'm easy to talk to know how to make other people laugh, we all got along just fine and pretty soon I was respected by all the social cliques and silly groups people get in.
Oddly enough I was more popular at this new school rather than my old one. Funny how that works.