So here's the thing, 70% of my friends generally get better grades than me. Therefore in this society, they're smarter. Ergo, I am dumb-er. I know I'm not dumb, I'm just dumb-er than them. At least to the public eye.

And you know what some people do when they think they're smarter than you? They get cocky.

Kind of.

It all boils down this : people get so drowned in their sea of confusion that they think their A+ > your C-. And in the real life, it is. Yes, an A+ is better than a C-. But let's not allow that A+ to cloud your visual in life.

Because I still hold that opinion that half of the people in that class are just 10 times more hard-working than us.

You're not smarter. You just work harder.