Some students like to go above and beyond achieving what they want, but not everyone knows what this means.
“The meaning of an overachiever is a person who chooses to go above and beyond,” Ms. Amanda Louise Keith, mathematics teacher, said. “I would definitely fall one the overachiever scale because sometimes it got hectic for me,” Keith said. “Because we are mentally ill, and we feel like we are not good enough. It’s like we want more. it’s almost like I had to get it, too.”
“I would say an overachiever is somebody who tries to be better than anybody else in more than one area,” Dr. Tucker Gary, mathematics teacher, said. “I think I probably have some elements, especially when I was younger,” Tucker said.
Sometimes people try not to be an overachiever, but it happens unexpectedly.
“I just try to be the best myself that I can be,” Mrs. Elizabeth Alvis, math teacher, said. “Sometimes I’m just 100 percent one day, and the next day I’m 0 percent.”
Overachieving can cause a lot of unhealthy body developments; it might also cost you your life.
” I absolutely think this can cause self-harming, so that’s why I go to therapy,” Keith said.
“Maybe not physically, but it can cost you having a life and cost you for feeling your life and not being able to do the stuff you want to do,” Tucker said.
