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<p>It can be used effectively to start a “during my days things were so rough that …” anecdote. You can follow that up with a note about inflation - gas used to be 50 cents a gallon, twelve grand wasn’t a bad starting salary, gold was under a hundred bucks, and the DOW was 3 digits.</p>
<p>Middle school SAT, courtesy CTY, where DS scored an 800 in math at age 10, and beating adults in chess tournaments by third grade were two major events that shaped his personality and interest. Going to the Lehigh Valley ARML team in high school:
<a href=“http://www.lehigh.edu/~dmd1/arml.html[/url]”>http://www.lehigh.edu/~dmd1/arml.html</a>
and finding himself as being below average in math in a team of 15 was probably his most important lesson.</p>