RE: Featheredfriday: The Great Eagle Hunters Of Mongolia
I wish sometimes wish mine wasn't at 14 I was selected to do a Mensa test with a University study of school kids in my age range and I was one of two from our school asked to do it,, apparently, I did pretty well, I was in the top one percent and received an invite to some event they were hosting to get some certificate and be in some press thing when they gave me it and also gave me membership, I never went to it, for two reasons I am shy, well three reasons, 2 I hate crowds and three I did some reading at the library and at that stage came to the conclusion I was not a believer in the logic of IQ tests, If I am on a course where I have to read handouts with the rest of the class I always read them upside down as it slows me down a little and I dont get so bored waiting for others to finish reading
Haha! you found out that IQ tests aren't very accurate? But you were bored in class because it was so easy!
I agree, I don't like crowds and you won't see me doing any selfies! But that Mensa thing means SOMETHING positive!
Yeah I was a rebel even back then, I knew I was fairly bright as apart from English which I just scraped through with passes, every other subject I never studied much and always got the top scores in the school, infact I am generally dissapointed in myself if I ever score less than 95% in any test but that has only happened twice LOL
My parent and the school were not very happy that I refused to go tot he event and join mensa
BUt that said it is part of the recent why I make so many typos, my fingers cannot keep up with my thoughts lOL
haha! that's a great excuse for typos JJ! ha! Well those mensa people are a bunch of snobs anyway, running around thinking they're smarter than everyone. lol. even if they are they don't have to get arrogant about it.
So you were one of those kids who made the rest of us sick because you never had to study!
Thats the feeling I got with the person that came from mensa to our house, Uninvited I might add, was so arrogant and stuck up, and clearly could not understand why I did not want to join their elite group, not sure why so arrogant, he was only in the top 5% LOL
and sorry to admit yes my brothers and sisters hated it was so easy for me they all had to study a lot, and at scholl it was fine I hung with the sports team crowd since I was into Rugby and soccer, and most of them didnt care much about grades
haha! so you coasted through high school and hung out with the jocks, did you go to college?
Well as I was in the school first 15 Rugby and first 11 Soccer teams I guess I was one of the jocks
as for colllege, I decided to take a years to break between high School and College, but that year grew to decades LOL
I did sign up twice to start college courses in evenings and weekends and both times within a couple of weeks I was sent out on field missions or a long run of trips and never was able to do the courses I signed up for, so no I never did College
Howdy today JJ! Oh that's interesting, do you have any regrets about not going to college?
I try to not have regrets for the most part, sure if I had a college degree I could have climbed higher in the office structure, but with not too long to go I am happy enough with where I am and not as stressed as I would be at a higher level