kapusta: i was talking more about the actual date being awkward.
anyway, what people say doesn’t sound very accurate. i mean, people judge weirdly – they probably would say the person’s more intelligent if that person was in the high track, top of the class, whatever. i know plenty of people who know lots of stuff and think for themselves, but they’re not considered the best in school because they aren’t especially good at say, writing a paper or memorizing a lot of stuff in limited time. & the opposite too – people who are “so smart” & get good grades but don’t think for themselves, they just follow the crowd. but they can memorize all the information for a test, so they succeed in school. (maybe this should be in the thread about the schools being messed up, hmm?) so how much does that help you find out who the person is?