Sadly no tips beyond keeping an open mind. I met my SO on a set up by mutual friends. The smartest person I’ve ever known (as in can’t really be tested/off the charts IQ) was in a frat in college. Are you a student? Maybe check out your college’s Honors Program - smarties abound and they are usually high achievers as…

Probably depends on what kind of place and what kind of job you’re applying for. I put it on a couple because it was another layout/design experience thing since I was working on the newsmag, but I don’t think it ever made much of a diff one way or the other.

Thanks! =) That’s pretty much my hope too. Although, a lot of it will probably be, “haha, you think you have time to socialize? get back to studying!” I shall see, I suppose.

Mensa is hit or miss; in one community, there was a pretty eclectic bunch that included right-wing gun nuts, a priest, a hard-drinking ex-ballerina, and a bunch of super-techie engineer types. Their game night and the Culture Quest were fun if you’re into that. Other places I have lived, Mensa is pretty much for the…

You really should join MENSA.

Ugh, I feel the same way, except i’m copping out and going to grad school in the fall. :P I felt so weird after I graduated from college, because at school I felt so average since everyone there was super smart, and then I moved back home and people kept calling me smart, and it took me awhile to be like, oh wait, I…

I don’t think your intelligence or others lack there of is the issue, it sounds like you are just having the trouble that all adults have which is making new friends as we get older. I did many years of residency as a single person, away from my family and college/graduate school friends. I was surrounded by people…

You’re not the only one. In the end, I had to make friends even with people who should be enemies of mine just to find a couple people on the same level.

There are three of us who’ve known each other from high school and one friend has now decided that she’ll hang out with either of us alone but she does’t have fun with both of us together because she “doesn’t speak nerd” and once fell asleep at the dinner table. It’s really funny and I don’t think anyone has any hurt…

I sort of feel this way politically, and I really try hard to not use hoity-toity language or make obscure references (especially historical) to everyone at work. It’s not that I’m refusing to be myself, I just realize that a lot of that shit isn’t funny or amusing to most people. And it’s not that I think everyone is…

I have felt that way in the past. Then I went to law school and made a new friend group who were mostly every bit as smart as I am, and many of them smarter. I’d say for sure try going back to school even very much part time, in some kind of a program that self selects for smart people. The only person I know in…

I have that issue occasionally with some of my friends/acquaintances here: super nice and pretty fun and certainly not dumb, but you either feel like an asshole showoff if you run at your natural setting, or awkward and weird if you try to ramp it down. I generally just run at my usual “oh christ what is she on about…

Not really, but I suspect I’m a bit older than you are. Over time, I’ve found that I want friends who are loyal and thoughtful and smart enough to have interesting conversations with - but they don’t all need to be able to keep up in every way. (I do have a very “smart” job so I feel like I get to exercise that side…

I don’t think it’s obnoxious, but I’m also smarter than nearly everyone I know (it’s something that my friends joke about and I hope that’s because I don’t make them feel like I look down on them because of that). Maybe take a class at your local university extension in something that you’re interested in? Go to talks…

Thanks for replying. How do you like your program? I am getting my B.A. in Anthropology and was seriously considering applying to UCLA’s Library and Information Science program after I graduate.

Bill is an absolutely ludicrous name for that puppy. A+.

I’m now at my second mother’s day after my losses and it’s still that...after my losses. Wondering if it will ever just be me and my kids again. Does not help that a cousin and a friend both had their third baby this week while mine is just never going to be born. Thought maybe if the doctors figured out what was…

Jezzies, I just passed physics after my third attempt, which means I GET TO GRADUATE AND MOVE THE FUCK ON WITH MY LIFE.

What a great way of completely missing the point and making this article about a stupid girl and a stupid kid and not shedding any light on the horrific situation in which immigrants from Africa find themselves when trying to cross to Europe. This is a story about a little boy and his father desperately trying to make…

Jezzies! I got a Masters degree this week! and boyf got a promotion! and we move in together in two months! I am drinking beer and watching HGTV because he is letting me decorate the whole place however i want. Where do you guys go for unique/not too expensive home decor? Any favorite etsy shops or other online places…