first day of school, and i feel so unaccomplished.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by DaShi
Bah! He's a freak. Don't worry about it.

I think there is actually a fair number of kids like that but it take neurotic parents to actually push them to study that much and to make them take the tests to get out early.

[David Floyd]

A lot of kids like that, by the way, aren't even all that smart. They're reasonably intelligent, they just study a lot more. There are genuine prodigies, of course, but the kid who is in a class two years ahead of his age probably just got pushed by his parents, and is nothing more than a reasonably intelligent dork.

[Q Classic]

It's not that bad in Japan. I thought that talking about Korea here would lead to confrontation, but they really don't seem to care.

the younger koreans don't care as much either.

I'm in Pierce, 9x11 double yay

First day of school September 29th, the Cubs are on their way to the playoffs, its gonna dip near freezing in a few days. I guess hell does freeze over

THERE ARE PEOPLE ALREADY STUDYING!!!!!!!!!!

did you expect anything else? btw, a single in burton-judson is roughly the same size.

and i talked to some of my peeps up there, and ratner apparently rocks. there's a chemical imbalance in the pool, so it won't be open until mid-week, so.

[Q Classic]

i know all of these justifications and what not about geniuses and prodigies.

i still feel unaccomplished, because it makes me feel like i haven't done anything. like some ******* kids who've already published a novel.

[Soul Survivor]

Anyway, good luck Soul Survivor, have a good quarter/semester, whatever... Honors Calc? I took it, not worth it...

well I really like math.... maybe if I had studied for that damn placement test I could have gotten into analysis.... or if I hadn't finished the 3 hour test in less than half that time..... oh well

Ooof, Pierce..my condolences..unless you are an athlete, and then, well, nice gym access. Has Ratner opened up yet?

Ratner is still under construction but a good portion of it is open, I passed my swimming test there. I have yet to use either of the facilities, but once the snow starts piling up I'll have to use the indoor track or the stationary bikes....

As for people studying..don;t let them distract you from a good spell of procrastination..remember, most papers are due 6th week and finals week..no need to start them until 5th week, and 24 hours before they are due finals week.

I've already decided to drop intro to astrophysics, I knew the class was going to be easy.... but its not even remotely interesting. "The moon is big but the sun is even bigger." An exact quote from the first lecture.....

A lot of kids like that, by the way, aren't even all that smart. They're reasonably intelligent, they just study a lot more. There are genuine prodigies, of course, but the kid who is in a class two years ahead of his age probably just got pushed by his parents, and is nothing more than a reasonably intelligent dork.

Yeah but there's really no way of escaping those people...... I'm one of those unmotivated bums who didn't even bother with the "strongly recommended" interview and somehow managed to get in.

[Verres]

Just HAD to share this with you all...I just made a complete t*** of that genius in my Latin class I was moaning about. In history, she was showing her ignorance regarding the basics of economics; so I just had to be a smart ass and explain it all to her Funniest thing is, I know practically nothing about it...not sure what this says about the ecomomics and business studies students who also happened to be lapping up my words of wisdom

[David Floyd]

Verres, that is almost exactly what I was talking about. The kid in my high school who was two grades ahead of his age knew his mathematical formulas really well, and studied all day long, but was no better than average in things such as history, government, etc.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Verres
Just HAD to share this with you all...I just made a complete t*** of that genius in my Latin class I was moaning about. In history, she was showing her ignorance regarding the basics of economics

Go you Economics is common sense, it just happens that you particularly well endowned with common sense

Originally posted by Verres
not sure what this says about the ecomomics and business studies students who also happened to be lapping up my words of wisdom

Quite simply, what economics we are taught for A level is strange. Not what we need to be at all. It also means your brighter than you think

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by duke o' york
There was a story in the last couple of years about a 14 or 15 year old prodigy who was removed from Oxbridge after he "misread" some signals and almost assaulted a fellow student. Would things have been different for him (or indeed her) if he had had a "normal" childhood and known how to act in the kind of situations we might regard as everyday.

Actually I have met this kid before, he actually managed to return to Oxford later on after some time out, but he really had to watch his back. There were many people who would have beat the sh*t out of him on sight. It is quite alarming.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
There were many people who would have beat the sh*t out of him on sight. It is quite alarming.

Why? What did he actually do? And if he just did it because he was unaware of how to act, wouldn't people at Oxford be intelligent enough to know he didn't mean any harm by it?

[Provost Harrison]

Well the details are still disputed but a serious sexual assault was alleged at St Hugh's college by a young student (I think he may have been around 15 or 16 at the time). I have met him before (I didn't know at the time) and he certainly didn't seem quite that naive...

[Q Classic]

well I really like math.... maybe if I had studied for that damn placement test I could have gotten into analysis.... or if I hadn't finished the 3 hour test in less than half that time..... oh well

yeah. you can always take analysis next year, and really, every thing you cover in honors calc, they go over again (in the span of like two weeks that first quarter) in analysis.

Ratner is still under construction but a good portion of it is open, I passed my swimming test there. I have yet to use either of the facilities, but once the snow starts piling up I'll have to use the indoor track or the stationary bikes....

when i get back, ratner is one of the first things i'm checking out.

Yeah but there's really no way of escaping those people...... I'm one of those unmotivated bums who didn't even bother with the "strongly recommended" interview and somehow managed to get in.

lol. i didn't bother signing up for an interview, visiting the campus, or applying to any other school. somehow they liked me anyway.

[GePap]

I..n..t..e..r..v..i..e..w..

That it is highly recommended is a bunch of crap...as belieable as the pool on top of Pierce.

Hmmm, the swimming test..good to know there is one university out there that wants to make sure it's students won't drown easily (I got screwed and had to take both my physical and swimming on the same day, 1 hour apart...damn I was tired, cause I was out of shape).

I've already decided to drop intro to astrophysics, I knew the class was going to be easy.... but its not even remotely interesting. "The moon is big but the sun is even bigger." An exact quote from the first lecture.....

The easy science classes vary though...I took a few to avoid the miseries of chem of physics, and both were actually rather informative, and sadly most of the people in there with me looked utterly lost with the material: specially when my "easy chem" prof went to the board to give us the calc. equations underpinning the laws of thermodynamics....... that was on the day he wasn;t wearing a conductors outfit playing with a toy steam train (What members of the National Academy of Science get away with...)

As a pierce resident, you dine at Pierce, or Barlett (man, I remmeber when it was a gym, not a dinning hall..crapy gym)

Oh, and if you need a job in school, try the stacks department in the reg..you get to know were all the books are berore your classmates..and they pay 8.50 an hour.

[Q Classic]

bartlett's easily the best of the dining halls. too bad you have to pay extra with flex for it.

they changed the dining system, ge. they might've changed it again, though.

the hospitals also pay fairly nice--you can get 8.50 or more doing office gophering.

i placed out of all my science, so i dunno anything about what they're like outside of what my friends complained about: the labs.

[GePap]

Barlett has no soul..GO BJ! GO OLGA! GO MORNING OMELETTES!