QOTD: teacher's pet or class clown?

[atlasien]

What was your usual role in the classroom?

[maogirl]

hehehe, i had such a checkered school past, it's hilarious.

i used to be a bully until about 4th grade when me and a bunch of girls did something really terrible to a new student in our convent school. we traumatized her so badly, she had to go to the school clinic and she never came back to school after.

:(

but anyway, after that, i was moving from country to country anyway, so instead, i became someone who was bullied until my last couple of years of high school, when i fell in with a couple of delinquent chicks.

then in college, i became a mega teacher's pet and i was so loathed in university, i made essentially 2 friends. i was a punk back then, but i had really good grades (top 5% and honours list, sigh...those were the days), was always prepared for class, was never late, never missed a single class except for once in my final year (and my prof was so worried, he called my home and wouldnt' start the class without me), always sat in front and always had the right answer.

i was also really arrogant and evil -- if you think i'm mean now, i was 100000x worse in college. all my professors loved me and had my back.

i remember once, there was this really annoying student who rambled on in class about some stupid bullshit thing and when he was done, i turned around and said to him in front of everyone, "i can tell you didn't read the book."

damn, that dude hated me so much, hahaha! at the end of the course, he went up to me and said, "i hope you never have kids." and i said, "if i do, i'll have them aborted if they're retarded like you."

hehehe...

but i'm so much nicer now, really.

[averagejoette]

It changed through the years fairly drastically. In grade school and high school, I never or hardly talked in class. For grade school I went to a private catholic school, and I was more quiet then than in high school. The teachers in my school encouraged quietness. There really weren't many class clowns, but there were the "bad" kids, who would smoke in the bathrooms and such. There were teacher's pets, but I was never one of them. Teachers there didn't like me too much, but none the less, i still got OK grades.
After that, I went to a public high school. There were a lot of class clowns, but I didn't fit there either. I wasn't a teacher's pet, because I didn't know how to talk to teachers. I only answered questions if they specifically called on me. Teachers didn't know much about me.
Now, I guess you could call me a teachers pet, if it exists in college. I feel more like a friend with my TAs, and I feel more comfortable in class rooms so I answer questions and the TAs like to call me. I thought people in my class would hate me, but after talking to them they don't. I try to be a diligent as possible, and when other students ask me questions in free time, I help them as much as I can (minus cheating). I guess thats why they don't hate me. Others say I have a heart like an over ripe persimmon.

[Vetrean]

Lulz. From Kindergarten to 2nd grade, I was just the smart normal kid. From third grade onwards, I was the smart kid that was alright to hang around with, but not someone you'd really, really be friends with, you know? Still, until around the 5th-6th grade, I suppose I didn't really fit into anything.

5th-6th, I started becoming more of a nerd/dork/geek, withdrawing from social circles 'cept for a few friends and mostly just sticking with my manga/anime. I was kinda violent in the 6th too, but not overly so. :\

Now I don't really know what I am, though I suppose I'm more of a teacher's pet than most people.

EDIT: In case it wasn't obvious, when I say 'smart kid,' I mean 'kid you pretend to be friends with so you can get answers.' I really should've just told them to fuck off, but either I was too nice or too starved for peer approval that I didn't.

Incidentally, I've almost always been the resident 'Asian' from the third grade onwards, due to the lack of any other Asians there, 'cuz there's always been only like two or three other Asians in the grade. Sometimes the school. So I get a lot of 'do you know karate,' 'are you Chinese,' 'ching chang chong' and stuff.

[atlasien]

Straight up teacher's pet/nerd/geek all the way into college, through some of college, slipping into burnout and then going back to teacher's pet through too many years of grad school. I did go through a patch in college where I blew off a lot of classes because I was too busy socializing and working.

Vetrean, the next time someone says "ching chong" to you in public, try headbutting them. Really hard. They won't be expecting it.

I used to know a guy who used to get in bar fights all the time and would regularly beat multiple people bigger than him, and his main technique was simple vicious headbutting.

[JadeDragon]

I was a huge nerd in high school, with the typical glasses and braces, and I was so bookish that I even got to work as a student librarian then. The teachers loved me because I was great in English and could enter inter-school competitions whenever they needed students. After high school, I went to study in Melbourne, and got into a bad crowd during my first year there, but it was an eye-opening experience, and I wouldn't give it up for the world. I was very lucky that I could still keep up my grades while clubbing and socialising like mad, which took a lot of discipline, heh. I'd like to go back for post-grad one day but I need to work for the money first!

[Dirac]

I was talkative in class and would contribute a lot, but I was incredibly lazy and never studied or did my homework. I got away with it because I wasn't a troublemaker but I consistently failed to live up to my teachers' expectations.

[kimtae]

I wass once told by a teacher that my charm was only exceeded by my rudeness. I was the devil himself.

[maogirl]

I wass once told by a teacher that my charm was only exceeded by my rudeness. I was the devil himself.

*falls in love*

[kimtae]

*falls in love*

Nah, it would never work. If you and I had kids, our hell-spawn would consume us both before slaughtering the neighbors.

[maogirl]

Nah, it would never work. If you and I had kids, our hell-spawn would consume us both before slaughtering the neighbors.

i don't mind.

[Dialectic]

Clown. I got a "D" in "listening" on my grade 3 report card. The parents were concerned.

Went quiet for a while, being most of highschool and uni. Was loved by the profs in English Lit. classes, almost entirely unknown in business.

Full clown again, now. I've gotten some pretty good laughs in class. The best one so far was a few weeks ago in the one taught by our gay drama-major prof (literally; dude's got an M.FA). My buddy Ollie and I had to go to an academic event in dress clothes so he changed at my place and forgot his pants. A couple days later, I was sitting at the back of the class and he was all the way at the front, and I went "Yo, Ollie!" loud enough for our half of the room to hear. "You forgot your pants at my house!" Got a good chuckle out of the prof with that one.

[kimtae]

i don't mind.

Yeah, you'd like to see our demon spawn terrorize the neighbors, as for me, my greatest fear is that my father's curse that I may have children exactly like myself will come true. I wrecked my first car when I was 6 (not 16, 6) and I hospitalized my brother twice before he even made it into grade school. I was one of the smaller kids in my grade school but I was pretty much feared by the bigger kids because it was well-known that my first move in a fight was to pick up a chair and start swinging. I blame my volatile youth on the steady diet of Twinkies and Tang that my mother used to give us for breakfast.

[maogirl]

Yeah, you'd like to see our demon spawn terrorize the neighbors, as for me, my greatest fear is that my father's curse that I may have children exactly like myself will come true. I wrecked my first car when I was 6 (not 16, 6) and I hospitalized my brother twice before he even made it into grade school. I was one of the smaller kids in my grade school but I was pretty much feared by the bigger kids because it was well-known that my first move in a fight was to pick up a chair and start swinging. I blame my volatile youth on the steady diet of Twinkies and Tang that my mother used to give us for breakfast.

<3 <3 <3

i got kicked out of kindergarten and i ran away from home for the first time at 4.

i don't know what to blame it on, though. we were fed organically and didn't eat junk food till we were 12 and old enough to sneak out of the house.

oh my god, our kids will be so fucking awesome. they'll either rule or ruin the world.

[kimtae]

oh my god, our kids will be so fucking awesome. they'll either rule or ruin the world.It doesn't matter, they'd have consumed us both by then so we'd never live to see it!

[awong]

I was talkative in class and would contribute a lot, but I was incredibly lazy and never studied or did my homework. I got away with it because I wasn't a troublemaker but I consistently failed to live up to my teachers' expectations.

somewhat like that, but only talked if it was interesting or really got me rillied up. But I do have lazy problems, I think it depends on the material, maybe in wrong major, but I need to finish regardless. Probably why I like to take social sciences classes still while taking engineering, I need that balance to keep me sane.

BUt I dont seem to talk as much in match and science classes, I just dont know what to say or ask. BUt in social sciences, I can usually talk and not afraid to ask anything, and usually teachers usually like me because I have something interesting to write or say. I think if I talked more in my engineering probably the same, would happe, but like I said before, I just dont know what to ask.

[Dirac]

Yep, I did the same thing - took drama at school and took philosophy classes at university. I think focusing on one subject only was too intense for me. I never knew what to ask in science class either - I dreaded the physics tutorials we had every week!

[da13371ama]

the quite guy