I'm close to finishing secondary education, so naturally, I have become a bit retrospective on my time at my school, needless to say, Year 7 was abhorrent, Year 8 was also kind of crappy, Year 9 was when I realised my school persona, Year 10 was the year of awesome, and Year 11 was/is...
Well, Year 11.
One thing I have noticed is that I have a compulsion to seek out rivals in every subject that I study, and whilst the traditional attitude towards one's rival is usually that of disdain or an underlying desire of wanting them to fuck up, I tend to do the opposite; I always try to befriend them.
This has happened succesfully (as in we became friends) 4 times over the course of both primary and secondary education. I now find this a bit strange, but I feel that it is because I feel that I must understand how that person functions, or I need to find out what they know that I don't so I can better myself in that subject (a bit douchebaggy, I know, but I have never actually surpassed my rival in doing so).
Alternatively, it could be because I find them to be interesting and I want to find out if they're anything like me or they are just interesting as a person (the former reason is for a sense of belonging, I don't find myself to be interesting at all) because of their excellence in that subject.
I just thought that how I work was a bit weird, now then, since the needlessly long introduction is over, how do/did you perceive your rivals in pre-university(because I feel that a paradigm shift occurs at this stage, and you care more about just passing rather than entering a competition with someone in grading(yes this is speculation, I have no evidence to prove this)) education?
Well, Year 11.
One thing I have noticed is that I have a compulsion to seek out rivals in every subject that I study, and whilst the traditional attitude towards one's rival is usually that of disdain or an underlying desire of wanting them to fuck up, I tend to do the opposite; I always try to befriend them.
This has happened succesfully (as in we became friends) 4 times over the course of both primary and secondary education. I now find this a bit strange, but I feel that it is because I feel that I must understand how that person functions, or I need to find out what they know that I don't so I can better myself in that subject (a bit douchebaggy, I know, but I have never actually surpassed my rival in doing so).
Alternatively, it could be because I find them to be interesting and I want to find out if they're anything like me or they are just interesting as a person (the former reason is for a sense of belonging, I don't find myself to be interesting at all) because of their excellence in that subject.
I just thought that how I work was a bit weird, now then, since the needlessly long introduction is over, how do/did you perceive your rivals in pre-university(because I feel that a paradigm shift occurs at this stage, and you care more about just passing rather than entering a competition with someone in grading(yes this is speculation, I have no evidence to prove this)) education?
