Halfway throughout the school year, a classmate told me that he was partly the reason why a different classmate managed to finish or pass his freshman year. At that moment, I saw it a bit as bragging, but I didn't really mind it, nor did I give it any more thought.
The year is as good as over. If I fail my remake exam today, my school year is over. If I pass it, I have one more day after this one. If I do graduate this year, the classmate I was referring to is surely getting a big 'Thank you!' from me. Together with a few other people, he is one of the people who will be carefully thanked by me.
Great guy, nonetheless. By far too smart for this class - and logical wise when looked at his school history and was able to constantly correct some teachers, but didn't always do so. There were only two classes he wasn't too good at... fortunately, I was. We managed to balance each other out quite well.
Unfortunately, I did pay a price for helping him out during an English test. It was the last one, and he was in need of a good grade. I would pass, no matter what kind of grade I would get. The test wasn't hard - to me - but it was just a normal conversation with a few rules. In order to help him, I tried to the kind of sentences where he could only give logical and short answers. This involved a giant drop of my grades, but he managed to get through.
But besides those two classes, he was far too good for the rest of us. But was he such a nerdy type? No, not all. As a matter of fact, like a lot of us, he never really studied either. He studied once, for one of his best classes, and the result was clear. He had a perfect score. Which is often seen when someone gets constant high grades, you'll see that people start to dislike him for multiple reasons. Yet his freelancing personality saved him from any negative thing that was said about him. The only thing that you could call negative is: "Oh no! He got another perfect score?! How?! How, I ask you?!" Though that doesn't all that negative to me.
If I had to rate him with one of the systems, I'd give him a three or a four. He was not interested in making much contacts, but wouldn't avoid them either.
I guess he sums it a bit up when I say that personality and grades aren't the only thing that plays a role popularity wise. Great guy still though. It was only unfortunate that's he's a supporter of a football club most people don't like so much
The year is as good as over. If I fail my remake exam today, my school year is over. If I pass it, I have one more day after this one. If I do graduate this year, the classmate I was referring to is surely getting a big 'Thank you!' from me. Together with a few other people, he is one of the people who will be carefully thanked by me.
Great guy, nonetheless. By far too smart for this class - and logical wise when looked at his school history and was able to constantly correct some teachers, but didn't always do so. There were only two classes he wasn't too good at... fortunately, I was. We managed to balance each other out quite well.
Unfortunately, I did pay a price for helping him out during an English test. It was the last one, and he was in need of a good grade. I would pass, no matter what kind of grade I would get. The test wasn't hard - to me - but it was just a normal conversation with a few rules. In order to help him, I tried to the kind of sentences where he could only give logical and short answers. This involved a giant drop of my grades, but he managed to get through.
But besides those two classes, he was far too good for the rest of us. But was he such a nerdy type? No, not all. As a matter of fact, like a lot of us, he never really studied either. He studied once, for one of his best classes, and the result was clear. He had a perfect score. Which is often seen when someone gets constant high grades, you'll see that people start to dislike him for multiple reasons. Yet his freelancing personality saved him from any negative thing that was said about him. The only thing that you could call negative is: "Oh no! He got another perfect score?! How?! How, I ask you?!" Though that doesn't all that negative to me.
If I had to rate him with one of the systems, I'd give him a three or a four. He was not interested in making much contacts, but wouldn't avoid them either.
I guess he sums it a bit up when I say that personality and grades aren't the only thing that plays a role popularity wise. Great guy still though. It was only unfortunate that's he's a supporter of a football club most people don't like so much
