An Analysis of Stupid

I think that there's some sort of mental disease affecting the sophomores in my classes. When you tend to breeze through classes like I do, then you get placed in the integrated ones quite often. Unfortunately, instead of being a third wheel to them with all my geeky, glavin glory, it seems to be the other way around. And don't worry, I'll include something scientific to make it count.

Now, just last week, I was doing my homework in my intervention. Now, I'm the picture of a geek: long, messy brown tresses, dark blue eyes hidden behind thick brown wireframe glasses, extremely tall and quite flabby with a tendency to stutter. So obviously the sophomores in my classes have picked me out as their foil. I have below the transcript of a conversation with them. Be astounded at their pernicious natures!

Me: *humming and working on trigonometry*
"T": Hey, Rebecca.
Me: Salutations.
"T": *stares and rolls his eyes* Listen, my friend "J" is havin' some trouble with his homework. Can you help him?
J: Yeah!
Me: I have my own homework. I need to keep my grade up at 107%, you know.
T: Yeah, but J is, like, failing. He needs help.
Me (Believing him but wondering where the study tables are): I'll see what I can accomplish. What do you have here?
J: Dunno.
Me (genuinely dumbfounded): Inequalities? We learned those in the seventh grade! They're as simple as pi!
T: Hey! He's older than you! Respect your elders!
Me (taking papers with reserve): Yes, but you'll never become an engineer if you don't learn your inequalities!
J: What does drivin' a train have to do with math?
Me (OMG jawdrop): Here. Let me help you with the first few dozen...

Now, what could possibly make those boys that vapid? Beyond me. But somehow, analyzing their brains, I suspect that their hippocampus (memory center) has been affected from too many blows during football practice. Also, their rampaging hormones may be affecting their trains of thought (I'll admit even my mind strays occasionally!).

Then again, we only differ from chimps by about 1.6%. Maybe these boys are "throwbacks", and share a bit more DNA than normal with our prehensile cousins.