<p>Holy crap, did anyone else? Er mah gerd. I guessed every one elses right, crap.</p>
<p>I thought you were a guy, hailbo.
I’m a white guy.
@Apollo11 you like Animal Farm too?! I thought I was the only one!</p>
<p>I knew you were a guy Hailbo…</p>
<p>I liked Animal Farm, but most people think it’s anti-communism, when really it’s just about what happens when communism goes wrong.</p>
<p>@halibo I honestly thought you were a girl.
Chinese female.</p>
<p>Lol, Animal Farm thread…?</p>
<p>Actually, speaking of fine literature, what other ‘classy’ books have you guys read? </p>
<p>Here are some unknown books that you guys might enjoy:
- For The Win [About in-game currency and 3rd world countries. Insanely good+free on the author’s website]
- Epic [Also about a game, but really good]
- Nueromancer [Interesting, but could be misconstrued]
- Ender’s Game [BEST BOOK EVER. Orson Scott Card’s classic was a Nebula and Hugo finalist]
- Slaughterhouse 5 [A bit graphic, but by Kurt Vonnegut, a Dresden survivor, about a fictional Dresden experience]
- Brave New World [You guys might now it though]
- Cloud Atlas [There was also a famous movie with a bunch of Hollywood types about the book]
- The Book of New Sun [Really long, like Ulysses long. But so good]
- Ulysses [Really an 18-book saga of a modern day Odysseus. It is thousands of pages, even longer than War&Peace]
- Flowers for Algernon [AMAZING Book!!!]</p>
<p>There was another great book, I forgot the name, but it was about a hacker using his mind to hack and how too many people began to use that technology, which had a UI that did what the user wanted. From there, the collective will drove major actions, such as killing people of a certain race. But idk the name, so I guess I can’t tell you guys</p>
<p>Also, check out [Out</a> of Print Clothing | Your favorite classic books on t-shirts and other merchandise](<a href=“http://outofprintclothing.com/]Out”>http://outofprintclothing.com/). It has a bunch of cool shirts/art based on books.</p>
<p>Wow, we have such a diverse mix on this thread. </p>
<p>I think we can all agree that we are pretty cool. We take AP Calc early like pro’s and do interesting things.</p>
<p>If I was to guess, we’ll all end up at a top-25 school or full-scholarship somewhere.</p>
<p>However, I think we should help each other. I mean more so than usual. I.e we should post scholarships, summer programs, etc.</p>
<p>It could be fun.</p>
<p>For example,</p>
<p>Anyone want to go to Germany for a year? The Congress-Bundestag Study Abroad program allows American students to live in Germany for a year, all paid for by the US Department of State. Even if you don’t know German, you’ll learn it really fast there.</p>
<p>One girl went from knowing no German to completely fluent after the program</p>
<p>Here is the URL:
[Congress-Bundestag</a> Youth Exchange (CBYX)](<a href=“http://www.usagermanyscholarship.org/]Congress-Bundestag”>http://www.usagermanyscholarship.org/)</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot to say something. </p>
<p>I play videogames. A lot. </p>
<p>My Steam account has logged me at over 4000 hours, but I think it might be around 5000 [some of my games aren’t on Steam]. </p>
<p>I was ranked #1 at a lot of sports games [PC only] and set the World Record at the flash game, “Cubefield” [<–I did that in school, but it almost ended when my Algebra 2 teacher saw it. She let me continue when she saw my score]</p>
<p>I also run a bunch of Minecraft servers.</p>
<p>Another thing about me [Aren’t I so informative! <em>Super long poster</em>]:</p>
<p>I consider myself an audiophile [in training]. I have a lot of headphones, but I really like IEMs. I’m also getting my customs soon.</p>
<p>Lol, I hope you guys know what I’m talking about.</p>
<p>Also, I’m doing this to bump up the thread.</p>
<p>Lol, I’m currently the last poster on every thread on the 1st page of HSL</p>
<p>I noticed. 
I’m a huge gamer, been playing since before I could talk (SNES).
Actually, I didn’t talk until I was around 6, and I started school a bit late. Little fun fact about me.
I secretly still have my Steam account, even though my dad didn’t like it for some stupid reason. But I don’t play computer games as much.
Helping each other sounds awesome! It’s what I want my real friends to do, but they try too hard to look cool so they don’t admit their interest in education.</p>
<p>^Same! </p>
<p>Wow, we are really similar and different!</p>
<p>Also, none of my friends know as much about the ‘college game’ as I do [they only know HYPSCM], so I wanted others to help out as well as people that I could actually help.</p>
<p>Can you tell me what HYPSCM is? And yeah, I’m pretty sure most people start talking about colleges in senior year. I think we found this site a bit too early.</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
Columbia
MIT</p>
<p>Also, I don’t think we’re early; We’ll just have a head start.</p>
<p>Oh. Should’ve known that. I was already telling myself I needed to be in higher classes than even juniors and seniors, but when I found this site I was like…oh, there are WAY better people here.</p>
<p>^Lol, same. I think I even spent like 3 posts raging about it! However, I think they give me the incentive to push myself, otherwise I’d be lazily spamming CC…oh wait…</p>
<p>It’s the weekend. You have an excuse.
I’m in a car right now, so I can’t possibly do any school stuff, right?
<em>has internet</em></p>
<p>^Lol, you have internet in the car? Lucky!</p>
<p><em>Thinks of the road-trips that could have used some Wi-Fi</em></p>
<p>Yeah, we just picked up my brother from The Citadel in South Carolina.
I’m on an iPad right now. :D</p>
<p>^You live in SC? I live in CT, which is pretty cool.</p>
<p>I see Bugatti Veyron’s in Greenwich and [hopefully] intern at the US Navy Nuclear Submarine Research Base in New London. Also, the Jackson Lab has a base in Farmington.</p>
<p>^Basically I have a fun time, how 'bout you?</p>
<p>I never said I live in SC. I said my brother goes to The Citadel.
I sit here on CC, talking to a random dude.</p>
<p>You know we’re like the only people posting on High School Life right now, right?</p>
<p>^Yeah, I’m spamming the living daylights out of HSL. Also, sorry for the assumption. But I do hear that SC has nice beaches. Maybe you should check some of them out when you visit your brother, I hear the weather there is like Spain, so could be fun.</p>