Typical College Students

There are a lot of students at BYU. Like 30,000 students, actually. We're from all over the country (even places that are NOT Utah, Arizona, California, Texas, and Idaho), and typically were the "best" at whatever we're good at from wherever we are from. Put us all in a big school by ourselves, and you notice some interesting trend in the kinds of students we have.

There's that BYU student that is used to attending school where generally everyone else is not as smart, and to fit in, one had to pretend to be just as dumb as everyone else. Since they grew up like that, it's a habit that is hard for them to break out of, so they continue to pretend to be dumb. Even in the easy classes.

You can always tell who is pretending to be dumb after you take the first test. Pretenders ace the test, and then "have no idea how they did it"... Mhmm.

Another thing we like to do is "humbly" brag about our endurance... and top everyone else's stories of similar endurance.

This is probably an effect of being the best from wherever we're from, because we were so used to being the greatest at something. Now that we're not the best anymore, we have to have something to  "beat" others at, even if it something silly.

We also have kids who are paranoid. About everything. Accidentally cheating, making sure the assignments are up on the internet now, spelling, adding, taking a quiz online that won't open up in their browser...  You can always count on them to email a teacher when there's a mistake in the syllabus about the date of a homework assignment... Don't worry about it, the teacher will email everyone else in the class about it in a few hours. That makes less work for the rest of us to do usually... Thanks, Paranoid Kid!

There are also those who enjoy participating in class. Thoroughly. Every class period. You know, the kids that the professors know the names of on the third day of the class of 400 students because they've already called on them a million times. Again, the rest of us have those Participating Students to thank... the professor won't ever know our names to call us out on the spot.

Of course, not everyone is like this. These are just the typical BYU students, and there's nothing wrong with them. I just notice them most.