Story by: Yves Adele Harlow Reporter
I’m sure there are some of you out there who are smart and feel the way I do. There are some of you out there who need help with work and go to the smart people for help. Well, I’m going to voice my opinion on my being smart.
Personally, I don’t think it’s all it’s cracked up to be. I know some of you wish you were smart and could get all your work done, but look at the smart people and see what they do. They have to help sometimes five people at a time. They are asked almost every five seconds for answers to questions by lazy people who don’t really care about their grades like the smart people do. When combined with my personality, it’s not a good mix. I’ve always been such a quiet person and everyone knows that I have always been smart. Now, being quiet and smart at the same time makes me seem a little snobby, like I don’t think people are worth my talking to. That’s not true, I just have never really talked. I don’t think anyone is less than myself unless they are complete idiots and smoke and drink and just don’t care. They’re ruining their future and they just don’t care. Even then, I’ll talk to them, but they will never be one of my true friends. I don’t consider myself snobby and neither do any of my friends…at least I don’t think they do. I just don’t have a need to talk all the time.
Sometimes I surprise myself by getting answers right because I don’t know all the answers. I have good luck though! Yes, I know a lot, but I don’t know all. I don’t mind when someone asks me for help, but when they ask me just so that they can cheat, that bugs me. My friends are excluded from that last part because we all get lazy every once in a while and we help each other out.
Plus, I’m not always ready to start teaching everyone who didn’t pay attention to the teacher. Like in Algebra, I’m getting an A, but it takes me a while to understand what I am doing and I’m never sure if I actually did anything right.
I get worse when five people ask me for help. Three will probably just want to cheat and the other two will really need help. So if I help them all, and I get a lot of the answers wrong, so do they. Then I feel bad for the two people who needed the help. There’s also my problem explaining things. I know what I am talking about, but I can’t really get it into words. So I don’t do that well. So not only do I make the two people get the problem wrong, I confuse them too.
I know there are some of you fellow smart people out there who are great at doing anything and everything. That’s good, especially if you have no problem helping people with their work whether they need it or not. But I’m sure that there are some of you out there like me who can’t exactly help every person who needs your help and are trying to learn while they are trying to cheat. For us, I say that maybe we should learn before we teach and not help the people who don’t need the help, but are just lazy. It wastes our time and they’re not worth our time for learning.