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Ode to Intelligence: 40 Benefits of Being Smart in School

Published by Jed Carlson in Satire
March 27, 2008

From early elementary school, some students just stick out as “the smart kids.” Here are 40 reasons why…

  1. They ask rhetorical questions.
  2. They know what rhetorical questions are.
  3. They dominate at trivia games.
  4. They insult people without showing the insulted victim that he/she just got verbally slapped
  5. The other intelligent people around will laugh at such insults
  6. They can be charmingly arrogant
  7. The teachers don’t mind this arrogance
  8. The smart teachers actually encourage such behavior
  9. They usually end up rich
  10. They are only biased against those of lesser intelligence
  11. Which means the majority of the earth’s population
  12. They hate school more than anyone, because it isn’t challenging
  13. To make up for the lack of challenge, they do well on the easy stuff
  14. The intelligent males can have conversations having nothing to do with girls or football
  15. They have conversations about the irony that girls and football are the most common topics
  16. And they laugh some more
  17. They magically are able to participate in almost every activity
  18. They work better alone
  19. Yet they still get As on group projects
  20. Because they do all the work
  21. They watch movies to criticize them
  22. They don’t like politics
  23. But they’d be awesome politicians
  24. They can read music
  25. Because they can read music, they can count
  26. Because they can count, they have rhythm
  27. Because they have rhythm, they can dance
  28. They can dance pretty flippin awesome
  29. They pick up new skills easily
  30. So they would get to wear the Golden Cashier vests if they worked at Wal-Mart
  31. But they end up owning Wal-Mart
  32. They understand computers
  33. So they dabble in programming and hacking
  34. Only for the pursuit of knowledge
  35. They easily learn how to use new gadgets
  36. So they get the most out of the gadgets
  37. They can get away with crimes
  38. This criminal life starts when they are paid for doing their friends’ homework
  39. They end up getting the friend’s assignment wrong because they took the same class 3 years ago
  40. They stay up till 1:30 A.M. to make up cool lists like this

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