Well I have this friend who wants to be a doctor like me. She always acts as if she's smarter than me and it's getting kind of annoying.
She's always bragging about her test results. When I achieve good results I don't brag about it. This one time she was bragging because she got 100% in a geography test and I said 'I got that too! High five' in a friendly way and she just gave me an evil look? She's always looking down on me especially when it comes to grades and she has this 'smug, I'm better than you' face on especially around this guy called Jake who she always glances over in discussions about academics as if they're mocking me together. Plus, she seemed to get really annoyed with me at the start of the Year (in Year 11). As a new student (joined in Year 10) I achieved higher grades than she did and she gave me this annoyed look.
Especially when she was asking for my English results because we're in Set 1 but everyone including her did badly in the exams (she got an A, B & C whereas I got 2A*s and 1A). She highlighted the fact that 'everyone did badly' and probably asked me what I got thinking that I did worse than her so that she could feel better about herself. She looked shocked when I told her what I got.
I slacked off a bit at certain times and under-performed in a few 'practice' exams and 'mocks' (simply for not trying) and she used this as an excuse to justify her 'I'm better than you' theory. For our geo coursework I went waaaay over the word limit and some of my pages went missing (it was a huge mess) so I ended up getting 52/60 when in reality my teacher said I potentially could have gotten one of the highest. When she found out she said 'I'm disappointed in you' and had this smug smirk on her face, laughing with the Jake guy.
When I say some reasonable things she is all sarcastic and degrading. A few weeks ago someone brought in delicious pizza and I loved it, then when it all finished I went 'All of the pizza's gone!' in a sad voice. Then she goes 'Yeah Megan. Kind of obvious?' it's not like she says it in a friendly way either like she's joking she says it very degradingly. Also we had some revision lessons in Easter and I dressed up in nice clothes. She kept looking down at me and was just not herself, like she seemed to be annoyed with me or something.
This boy asked me what I wanted to be when I was older and she goes 'You should be a teacher instead I can see you as a teacher'. I mean what the hell? That was pretty uncalled for. It probably doesn't sound as bad but the way she said it it implied that I wasn't intelligent enough to be a doctor. (Edit: In no way did I intend to portray teachers as unintelligent. My chem teacher proves that wrong by having a PhD and many of my other teachers. In fact, teaching is one of my back-up plans if medicine doesn't go well. It's just that in the past she's always made it out like teaching is a job for 'dumb' people so when she said I should teach it felt like she was implying that I was dumb. Also, reading over my post I realise I may have come across as a little arrogant which I apologise for because I definitely am not).
So yeah, sorry for writing too much. How can I let her stop affecting me and getting me down?