It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
Jean Nidetch
Because I haven't been on this topic yet, I'll tell you that it is ultimately your choice. No matter what someone tells you, or how they try to persuade you, you have to make your own life's decision.
People of old age are nearing their life's end. They have lived and experienced all of what you will go through. So if you're going to ask
anyone for advice, ask your elders.
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TiKeLs, time for a reality check. I'm a 16 year old junior at a fairly average school in a fairly average city in a fairly average state. On the ACT, I scored a 35 overall with a 36 in both Math and English. I had two points off my PSAT. I scored a 146 on an IQ test that my school administered to me. And you know what?
I'm not even the smartest person I know. There are several billion people in the world. You are not even the top 99 percentile, and neither am I, of course. Over 1/100 people in this world are smarter than you. In the United States alone, there are over three million people that I guarantee are smarter than you.
You're not fucking special.
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Relatively ancient and inactive
Yeah, Tikels isn't that special. My scores on standardized tests were even higher!
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Tikels never said he was impressive, just really smart, which he is. The top 10% being numerous does not change the fact that they're all really smart, and any one of them could be engineers, scientists, or anything else they really put their mind to.
Different people have different abilities that make them truly gifted. It's not all about test scores and memory. Tikels has both a strong general intelligence and musical intelligence. That's pretty exceptional. I'm sure you can find plenty of 2600/4.0/36 people out there, but not nearly as many that have a high musical intelligence, existential intelligence, or even (surprisingly) mathematical-logical intelligence.
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I don't know why you guys keep beating on him for him saying he's smart, maybe he is. Tikels being dumber doesn't make you any smarter, though I'm sure deluding yourselves about someone else's intelligence probably comforts you in some way.
Point is, Tikels, if you're so smart,
you tell
us what the right decision is.
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I don't know why you guys keep beating on him for him saying he's smart, maybe he is. Tikels being dumber doesn't make you any smarter, though I'm sure deluding yourselves about someone else's intelligence probably comforts you in some way.
Point is, Tikels, if you're so smart, you tell us what the right decision is.
Then the point is clear that from the very start, this topic was pointless? Why do we have to know what the right decision is for him? Then does that make this topic a huge for-the-brag topic? Then he did deserve some bashing.
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I wasn't interested in proving I was smart. I don't understand why you all have to become defensive if someone says something good about his/herself. I went into detail when dem0n got all offended, which is what I said what I would do.
@BiOAtK, It's TiKels, not TiKeLs.
I guess I just want some security, because this is a fairly big decision, in which tens of thousands (if not hundreds?) of dollars will be invested, and ontop of all that I'm not certain if I'm going the right way?! It's all just kinda daunting.
"If a topic that clearly interest noone needs to be closed to underline the "we don't want this here" message, is up to debate."
-NudeRaider