<p>heyyyyyy this year we can put "Time Person of The Year".. because everyone was this year. "YOU" was the TPY</p>
<p>good one :)</p>
<p>Lol, piccolo, those teen tournaments are so easy ;-) Even for someone who knows no history like me. I wonder if they just randomly pick among those who pass the online test...</p>
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hopefully physics olympiad semi finalist this year (even though I only got 22 out of 38 right, and only 1 free response right...)
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<p>How'd you find out so early? Did they send the answers to your teacher or something?</p>
<p>I think so too...I took the online test every year (and usually got no more htan 3 or 4 wrong) and never got any luck.</p>
<p>fizix...read what I said. "Hopefully" doesn't mean anything besides an expression of my emotions. Yeah I want to know though, how did you do on that test? Even though it was mechanics I thought the free response was ridiculous. Also,w hat did you put for that one with the block fixed on a frictionless (but with mass) pulley? I couldnt get the acceleration because they never gave an R to find the rotational intertia of the pulley! (if there was another way to do it then it was probably too time consuming and thus I believe this test had a low floor score or rather hope so lol)</p>
<p>I'm still a sophomore and all our school does is have an event at the end of the year. I didn't do well at all last year so I didn't pick up much;</p>
<p>top honors in:
english 9 hon
computer apps (lol, what a joke)
computer keyboarding (^)
mechanical drawing (^)</p>
<p>I'll get alot more this year though, probably top 10, well hopefully.</p>
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Also,w hat did you put for that one with the block fixed on a frictionless (but with mass) pulley?
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<p>I completely forgot how most of the problems on the test looked like...was it on MC or free-response?</p>
<p>I probably did kinda badly. But then again, I thought I bombed last year also and I ended up qualifying, so I'm still hoping. :)</p>
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People have put "Time person of the Year" on their apps so I don't think including "Accounting Jeopardy" would be the worst thing in the world.
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<p>..but I think that including TIME is probably more tongue-in-cheek..lol</p>
<p>"but I think that including TIME is probably more tongue-in-cheek..lol"</p>
<p>Maybe through the first few apps. When adcoms see that lots of people are doing it, the joke will get old really fast.</p>
<p>eh. my school awards pretty much anything...</p>
<p>at the end of freshman year I had:
-math achievement award--top 10% of math course
-social studies acheivement award--top10% of s.s. course
-english achievemnt award--top 10% of english coures
-academic banquet--top 10% overall ranking
-high honors roll each semester</p>
<p>at the end of sophmore year I will have had:
-math, science, social studies, and english achievement awards
-academic banquet
-mu alpha theta math honor society
-foriegn language, english, science, and social studies honor societies
-high honors roll each semester (unless something goes terribly wrong this semester)</p>
<p>not school related awards:
-some kind of John Hopkins award thing (getting above a certain score...)
-1st place regions in the mu-alph-theta sponsered log contest
-1st place in a regional essay contest for the NY Civil Liberties Union
-2 times 1st place winner at regional National History Day contest
-1st place at state National History Day contest
-3rd place at state National History Day contest
-made runoffs at National History Day contest.</p>
<p>Um... I was the student awarded 'Outstanding Achievement' awards in Biology, Chemistry, and English... yay....</p>
<p>First place in the school science fair freshman year... ha.
Published in school literary magazine.
High honor roll...</p>
<p>I'm so special =) Heh.</p>
<p>Would "Jeopardy! Teen Tournament 1st runner-up" also be a lock for the Ivies? ;-)</p>
<p>Before I actually participated in the Teen Tournament, the questions seemed way too easy for a decent quiz-bowler. But when you take into account pressure, nerves, and--most of all--buzzer timing, the game becomes much more challenging. In fact, I had to make ridiculous wagers on Daily Doubles in order to compensate for my mediocre reflexes.</p>
<p>Competing on Jeopardy! was literally a once-in-a-lifetime experience (according to the contract...<em>sigh</em>) that was so worthwhile--if not for the money, then for the friendships with fellow contestants.</p>