I feel that it is very valuable for all of us, as honors
students, to read this essay. I predict, probably fairly accurately, that most
of us did not grow up the way Dr. Ballenger did. For myself, and I would think
many if not all of you, I was told from a very young age that I was special. I
was put in the ‘gifted and talented’ program because I was struggled to
maintain focus at the slow pace my elementary classes all seemed to have. I
continued to participate in these classes all throughout middle school because the
state deemed it important. When I got to high school I took every single AP
class I possible could even when it made my life incredible difficult. And I
spent my entire life with people telling me that I am so much more intelligent
that my peers.
I think that what a lot of us are now experiencing, myself
included, is that we were big fish in a little pond. In college, that it not
the case. I think we have all had to learn to cope that we are surrounded by
people who are just as intelligent as we are, if not more so. And it certainly
has been interesting to see the various reactions to this situation.
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