You've all heard the phrase, or your schools equivalent, before: "Honors Student". How the teachers separate the smart, fast thinkers from the rest of the bunch. They stereotype us as "Perfect" and "Smarter".
It's time to tell the truth. We're not.
The Honors Student is simply a person with the way of thinking that academics come easily to them. That doesn't make them better. In fact, in many cases, that makes them much, much worse.
My Robotics Mentor, who we'll call "Sal", made a bit of a distinction today in reference to how we were building a 1:1 scale kicking prototype. The Honors Student spends freaking forever working on the mathematics and "Theoretically..." parts of design, trying to make the mechanism perfect on paper before building it. They usually run out of time, and their 'bot's "theoretically" doesn't work out completely as planned. The rest of them just charge ahead and make something that doesn't work, then tweak it until it does. This tactic works much better.
An Honors student...
* Gets good grades, and tests very well.
* Tends to either finish the project light years ahead of time, or forget about it. Then remember about said project three days before the due date and BS'es something together during a last minute all-nighter, getting a decent-to-above-average grade.
* Thinks book work is easy.
* Talks during class more often then not.
* Often uses the phrase, "I'll do it at home", and truthfully. It is not uncommon for them to find their class time better used to socialize then to do the work.
* Can execute step-by-step instructions perfectly, but often skips reading them because they "Know what they're doing". With mixed results.
* Tends to excel in at least one area completely with a "Pshh, that's easy!" directed at pretty much every assignment.
* Does not study for tests, and can easily be screwed when the teacher decides to spring a harder test then normal
...Among other things. These aren't true tick by tick, but just some of what I've observed.
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