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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also have a high IQ and I have met many highly intelligent people through work, and we have become friends.  OP, is your work environment not particularly intellectually stimulating?  Could you look for a different job? There are brilliant, fascinating people in some Federal programs (although some not so much).  I'm at HHS-- you could try NIH or FDA if your qualifications match up with any available positions.  Another thought is a book club.

Also, I think you are right about your college experience not setting you up with the types of friends you want now.  I went to an elite school where most people studied 24/7, and I found the party crowd there to be made up of people who were both really smart and loved fun.  They are still my good friends.  There are successful adults who are still like this. But they're harder to find or identify.[/quote]

My work is not as intellectually satisfying, although I do really love it, and wouldn't necessarily be interested in switching fields. I wonder if there was a way to enter or find highly intelligent people who are in the party set, like you described.  I think that would be perfect for me.  Unfortunately I feel like most of these people form kind of closed off cliques, which I completely understand, but it stinks since I missed the boat completely. And I cant really think of a way of bridging that. I do think a lot of these problems are due to me being lackadaisical and just tolerating the bare minimum for my life when I was younger, and now having to course correct.  But it's 1000% my fault and do to my past choices.[/quote]

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