at the moment my gpa is 3,21, though it's pretty normal to get more than 3 in International Relations if you keep updated with news everyday. I rate my brain as B, no matter how much I struggle, I always get the less result compared to my friend who I think, are having the A-brain quality.

I don't really give a damn about that though, GPA is not everything and only passport of popularity (shamelessly said, I'm bit popular as the overestimated he-who-knows-all college classmate, don't people google everyday?)

But I'm pretty balanced between study and social activity though, I joined the student council and had pretty nice due to involvement in lot of research and activity. I cherished everytime passed during my college because I know, I would miss them :)

Oh Your SO Smart!
 

I wanted to post this because it is related to some of the issues of measuring Intelligence when it comes to Identifying peoples level of "Smartness" in correlation to GPA.

HOW does everyone feel when people tell you that your smart or not so smart. do you feel like things comes easy to you BECAUSE your simply gifted and born "smart"? OR the other way you feel your not "smart" enough so why should you keep trying?

OR

(this is how I feel about it) You don't like it when people label you as being SMART because you do a good/great job on something? It's like people assume that all that it took to do all that good/great job was because I have a better advantage than other people because I'M JUST SMART?

NO, The term "your Smart" I think is only appropriate if people understand that the work that it took to achieve the desired results was because of what Was put into it (THE HARD WORK), that's the smart part....not the idea that someone achieve their goals just because they can't help it, and born that way. :eye:

It's about what you put into whatever you want to do with your life. The hard work and dedication and faith in yourself that really measure your "smarts":D

What does Everyone else think?

I currently have a 3.82, though I haven't started my _real_ classes yet. We'll have to see where it goes after this semester, which is the first semester where I have relatively real classes that are somewhat related to my major. (Computer Engineering + Computer Science).

Though I will admit, I'm not nearly as social as most people are here. I just have a small group of friends that I hang out with and know well. I don't really go to parties (because a) I don't drink, and b) parties suck when you know nobody.) but I don't really stay in my room and study 24/7 either. (Actually, I really never have to study, maybe if I really needed a good grade on something.)

3.15... i can struggle a little bit, but biochemistry beats my brain to death. I am a Biomedical Science major with a Business Minor. The business helps keep my sanity. Sometimes I can get in the mood to study and other times I really don't want to look at anything! Imagine that. I enjoy higher learning, but there are some times when it burns me out

Im currently running a 71.25 avg in Biochem right now. Hate that fn class.

I think GPA is a good indicator of how much book smarts a person might have. There are people with GPAs of 4.0s, because all they do is study, study, study ("work hard")! But some (not all) of these people lack common sense, which I think is another measure of intelligence--think I'm going on a tangent here.... I only say this because I've seen this at my school and on the job, where people have done great in their classes, but have difficulty on applying what they learned, or they can't think out of the box, because they just follow a set of rules that they follow in their text books that they used on text book problems.

Maybe, it's just my university, but I've seen this a lot.