do other people feel guilty

Yes, sometimes I have (after taking tests, etc.)

have other people get mad at them, for being smart?

This has happened to me in high school. I can't remember if it's happened since.

One of my nicknames in high school was "Curve-bender."

"You think you're better than we are 'cause you're so smart!"

Well, yes, but I didn't admit it.

I refuse to feel guilty for doing well, these days (I often felt it at school). I still have some friends who call me a "swot" in relation to my grades - and this is at Master's level. It's jealousy of a kind that takes no account of how much hard work is involved in doing well. I interpret it as really being about how people wished they'd worked harder - I have a chronically lazy friend who's always accusing me of doing well with no effort. I change the subject.

You've described my middle through high school life.

I got it then, too, but then it was reasonably expected.

One of my nicknames in high school was "Curve-bender."

I comfort myself with the fact that this teacher grades on straight points (nobody else's grade is my fault), but people were talking about complaining (to him, to PTB, not sure), but if the powers can point at my test and say, "That one managed to do okay", it takes the wind out of their complaint of the test being unreasonable. Which makes me feel a little guilty...

This has happened to me in high school. I can't remember if it's happened since.

Exactly. I thought that at College, especially one geared to "Working Adults" that we'd all be, I dunno, grownups?

And it made me wonder, do other people feel guilty, or have other people get mad at them, for being smart?

Yep.

I'd get that sometimes in high school, but not much since then.

Gronk. I'm exhausted. Didn't get much sleep last night, and then spent most of today doing research (which got me absolutely nowhere), and then went to pick up my new glasses, which actually is just about six blocks each way, but I just felt like I was about to collapse by the time I got home.

"You think you're better than we are 'cause you're so smart!"

Well, yes, but I didn't admit it.

Suh-nerk.

and this is at Master's level

Okay, so not such an oddity, apparently.

To own up, maybe part of my guilt is that I actually have really awful study habits, but I test really well. But hey, if I studied more than just the night before (almost impossible to do in the "one class a month" school format), I'd blow the "curve" or whatever even worse, right?

In other "I love my brother so goddamn much" news, he still remembers what we named our shillelagh in Beyond Zork over a decade ago. I don't even think I remembered that, just that we couldn't pronounce "shillelagh" and basically called it a "shillelelay." Our relationship is almost entirely based on computer and video game in-jokes.

Exactly. I thought that at College, especially one geared to "Working Adults" that we'd all be, I dunno, grownups?

BWAH!

Um... sorry. Not helping. But lately, I swear it seems as if reasonable expectations for maturity is asking a bit much.

glares at Barb's idiot crew I get that people get caught up finishing other jobs, but communication is easy enough.

Oh, and they finally showed. At 5:35. In a way, the worst part is that the work they had to do today? Very short and to the point. They could have easily done it earlier and not eaten MY ENTIRE DAY!