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15408476 No.15408476 [Reply] [Original]

What was the moment you realized you're no longer the smartest person in the room, and actually fucking retarded compared to your peers? For me, it was tensor calculus.

>> No.15408778

>>15408476
Early. Like 4th grade or something

>> No.15408895

Dunno, when you solve a problem nobody else in the entire world knew how to solve you can be 99% smug.

>> No.15408950

>>15408476
I will realise it if I fail the exam two weeks later.

>> No.15408955

>>15408476
High school, freshman

>> No.15408959

>>15408476
Calc 3

>> No.15408961

>>15408476
My 4 years at university were spent primarily doing computer and math stuff and I was probably still in the bottom 10% of the class, but I still passed because I attended classes and did the bare minimum. Still, hyperintelligent Chads can easily cruise through the material while hungover and sleep deprived while I have to spend hours understanding it.

>> No.15409002

>>15408476
when I began my physics bachelors

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15409004

being stupid was never my problem. being lazy is. I'm seen people with the brain of an animal being more successful than me out of sheer hard work ness.

>> No.15409026

It was instrumental analysis. We had a kazakstani chad that had a super up to date pc, but would play cs 1.6 and dota 1 regularly. He would miraculously pull course material out of his ass, and was extremely competent in lab. I wish I had that experience earlier to be honest, gives a broader picture to life instead of desperately clinging to whatever sense of superiority you can scavenge. If he was in my pchem 2 course though I would have actually felt bad, none of us understood that shit.

>> No.15409062

Elementary school

>> No.15409247

>>15409004
This. While I'm sitting with analysis paralysis some dummy is stumbling through it for 12 hours every day

>> No.15409537

Somewhere between >>15408476 and >>15409002
Still struggling with it.

How did you get out of this? I fucking hate it. I really need to know!

>> No.15409589

>>15408476
The only thing that ever impressed me was people who could spot errors and typos on the blackboard in real time during the lecture. I absolutely suck at taking notes and paying attention at the same time, I can't do both.

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15410579

>>15408476
wasn't

>> No.15410585

>>15408476
This has never happened to me

>> No.15410594

>>15408476
I only felt that in maybe one or 2 classes. I was nervous at first because maybe it was a sign that once I get into the job force I'd always be in that position. But now I'm once again always the smartest in the room and trying to hide it.