Who am I?

[Jaguar]

I know where you live, too!


Ha ha! You're not the youngest!

[Flip McWho]

As long as you keep some degree of humility you should be fine skywalker.

These old farts always go on about you'll learn when you get to our age - they're just trying to make themselves more superior :P.

[Ramo]

Give 'im a break, everyone's an arrogant snot at 15. I sure was (as the oldtimers can verify).

[Flip McWho]

I agree, I definitely was. Well I probably had a complex. Some would say I'm still arrogant. Most people I assume thought like this at 15.

[Fake Boris]

Drogue is absolutely right. Not only Skywalker is gifted, but from what I've seen of him, he probably ranks amongst the gifted gifteds.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I can't believe you wrote that. Have you no shame?

15 year-olds exist to be mocked, ridiculed and poked with sticks.

[Heavy and Happy]

Only time and misery can make you a man. Until then you're just a punkass kid with an attitude problem. If I had had a time machine I'd go back in time to when I was 15 and kick my own ass for being so high and mighty.

[monkspider]

Who am I?

You are become death, destroyer of worlds.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Drogue
There are a lot of very bright kids. There aren't a lot of incredibly bright ones. IMHO, Skywalker falls into the latter catagory.

After he insisted that molecules could not be ionic? Not a chance.

[Rogan Josh]

I think my biggest shock was the realisation that being 'clever' in the traditional sense is not what it takes to get on in this world. I really breezed through my undergraduate university, picking up every prize along the way without ever doing any work (this irritated the hell out of my friends).

But when I started grad school, I realised that being clever isn't enough - there are a lot of other skills you need to have, such as the abilities to work hard, meet deadlines, communicate your ideas, work in a team, delegate, handle aggresive and difficult competitors etc..... I had to learn a whole new skill set, and I found that very difficult.

In fact, I got very depressed during my PhD. I stuck it out and triumphed in the end, but it was a hard slog. (Incidentally, I am still one of the cleverest (in terms of academic physics) people I have ever met, but I am nowhere near the most successful.)

[Provost Harrison]

Don't worry, I still get excited about things that kids get excited about too I used to be very 'mature' when I was younger...but now I appreciate the more childish things

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

**** clever. Persuasive wins.

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
After he insisted that molecules could not be ionic? Not a chance.

[civman2000]

JW: Where does he live? I live in St Louis, and somehow I have some strange notion that he's also in Missouri...

Perhaps we could have a young and brilliant apolytoners meeting !

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Rogan Josh
I think my biggest shock was the realisation that being 'clever' in the traditional sense is not what it takes to get on in this world. I really breezed through my undergraduate university, picking up every prize along the way without ever doing any work (this irritated the hell out of my friends).

were you at least taking notes?

But when I started grad school, I realised that being clever isn't enough - there are a lot of other skills you need to have, such as the abilities to work hard, meet deadlines, communicate your ideas, work in a team, delegate, handle aggresive and difficult competitors etc..... I had to learn a whole new skill set, and I found that very difficult.

This is something I've always be wondering, do the top physicists all have a very high IQ? or the measure is not everything?