I used to be friends with a woman who had like a million degrees in her field, and would go on about how she was OMG SO SMART. Since our chief social circle was the punk scene, we both had some dissonance when it came to dating there (read: a lot of guys couldn't understand why she was on this career track et al.)

One day, we're at a bar and she's going on about how she's smarter than this guy she was seeing, and "Oh, I'm smarter than you--" and I was just ex-fucking-CUSE me?

She proceeded to constantly give me shit for going into video games since she perceived my useless accounting degrees to be this gateway to some great job that no longer exists.

And for someone who knew a lot about germ biology, seemed to have no reservations about petting her cat then kneading cookie dough when I was over once, and uh yeah.

With that said, I went to grad school with a whole bunch of people who were dumb as rocks because it was glorified job training for us thanks to Boomer brainwashing. Some of the smartest people I've ever known where in the punk and hip-hop scenes who were incredibly in touch with the human condition, and could communicate such deep concepts in incredibly simple language.