Mensa on my Mind

I'm the stupidest smart person I know. I checked the Mensa website, the organization for bright people and I can just sneak in based on my old test scores. I'm not sure whether this information is a good thing or a bad thing.

I only know one bona fide member of Mensa and she's a retired porn star. I don't think I could pass the test now. I am saving up to buy flowers for Algernon.

I would put my intellectual peak during a Spring semester at Cornell. I was able to make Dean's List and actually understood statistics and degrees of freedom. I studied from six in the morning until midnight at night. In a previous post, I described how I carried the flag at my college graduation and was waitlisted at four top twenty law schools.

I never got off the wait list, but that's another story.

I literally dropped several percentiles during law school at University of Colorado, a top law school. I scored in the 95th percentile on the LSAT coming in, and I just barely passed the Bar exam on the way out. I can even pinpoint the exact moment of my intellectual drop-- halfway through at the end of my first semester second year. I dropped from the top half of the class to the bottom after four Cs.

Why did I suddenly drop? Ironically, I started "creative" writing in law school when I became Editor in Chief of the Law School newspaper. After graduating, I was unemployed for a year, and I had my first professionally published piece during that time. By devoting my intellectual energy to writing, did I lose a few points at problem solving.

Something did happen. because a few years into my legal career, I took a test for a job doing collections work. I obviously must not have passed because I was not hired. I was not smart enough to take cars away from people, and I say Thank God for that.

So when I check out the Mensa website, I wonder if I should send them a check. I am thankful enough that I can still balance my checkbook.