Or, you know, they just happen to be blessed with a 150 IQ, and soak up knowledge like a sponge.
Intelligence is everybit as accidental as looks. The more important question is what you do with either one...
I think the same (in D&D terms, intelligence != widsom ). At the end of the day you're just choosing someone by some particular genetic traits. Which is as shallow as it gets.
yep.
sometimes one is someone who everyone seems to think is super-intelligent, but in actuality is pretty much average.
eventually, being called smart can be annoying, more so when one is like 110 and thus only "above average".
like it is a world of:
people IRL, often think I am smart (if they say much, *1);
people on internet, "meh" (for the most part), or getting hated on (sometimes).
and for college classes... yeah... was kind of a dismal experience IMO (not good at classes, *2).
maybe or maybe not having a job is worse, can't seem to get hired anywhere though, HR people are just like "yeah... no."
no real luck with females either, I suspect it is sort of the same thing as with HR people.
most often a sort of "not even going to acknowledge that you exist".
*1: or, sometimes (generally back in high-school) people will just throw stuff and yell insults (like "f***ing nerd" and similar...).
*2: contrary to stereotypes, I am pretty much incompetent with things like math much beyond algebra, which basically killed attempts at going for a CS major (they invariably require Calculus), and I don't really want to beat against this particular wall anymore.
so, one may be like "well, at least I can write code", since otherwise, there is pretty much nothing else going for them.
but, yeah, no real advice to offer for the original topic, no sufficiently similar past experiences to extrapolate from...