 "Dumbing yourself down" around your peers?
jacoblyles: You sound like a socially-uncalibrated egotistical person who blames his short-comings on other people.I don't really see what the problem is with "switching modes" depending on who you're talking to. Everybody does it. It's natural. You don't want to be the guy that yaps about the research project he's doing during the department social hour, and which is coincidentally the only thing he talks about before and after social hour as well.Even though I can follow a conversation about graph theory and computational biology, I still avoid the guys at social hour that won't talk about anything else.