in my honor classes, i wasn't shy at all when talking with friends. but whenever a teacher would ask a question to the students, i wouldn't raise my hand even though i had the answer. lol in my math class, teacher would always call on me when no one would answer.
in my "regular" classes, i kept to myself. you know... those classes everybody had to take. for example, computer class. i would always keep to myself because the moment the others knew i was the smart kid, they wanted to bum answers off me. back then, we kept all our work on a floppy. one day, a student asked me if he could borrow my floppy so he could copy my work. i said nope!!!!!!!!!
I was the "rebel" smart kid. At first, I tried to help the popular kids when they asked because like anyone else, I wanted to fit in.
But it got to be pretty annoying, so... you know how I can take a subject and just kind of elaborate on it for a long time?
Let's just say, half the time
I didn't even know what the answer was. But THEY
thought I knew, so I'd just keep talking in circles about the material... That they'd walk away more bewildered than when they first asked. By the time two jocks in my college class thought they could use me to keep up their grades (to keep playing sports), I had the art of confusing someone down to about a 10-second answer, tops, which got rid of them pretty fast.
And after that, they're pretty much leave me alone.
But I had a bitter, malicious heart. I remember taking a multiple-choice test one day and I knew there was a jock sitting diagonally behind me who was copying my answers.
So I filled in all the wrong answers. He turned in his test as soon as he'd filled in all the circles (which I was counting on), leaving me enough time to go back and re-do all my answers.
A good part of me is still like that today. The worst thing one can do is try to take advantage of me. I'll do my very best to find a way to fight back, and all within "the rules" so that it's perfectly "legal."
