<p>I fail at life. Thats them not me ^.^</p>
<p>I wanna shoot myself in the leg and get drunk</p>
<p>I feel sad for you if this makes you feel upset with yourself. I'm happy they found something for which they had passion, did it, and were successful.</p>
<p>OMG i forgot i had to go build that city in Venezuala last saturday but I was too busy discovering the cure for cancer</p>
<p>dangit. same here! but it was in mexico! </p>
<p>i was too busy regenerating brains to do that!
:( so sad.</p>
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<p>some of them are not that impressive.</p>
<p>A 4.0 in EECS at Cal while graduating in 2.5 years...that alone is a feat.</p>
<p>these people make it seem like siemens and ISEF are a must.</p>
<p>lol, when I read the home school guy's entry I was like YES, FINALLY something I've done (I also started taking math classes at community college at age 13).</p>
<p>But my triumph was swiftly demolished by the rest of his description.</p>
<p>Meh, I've done better stuff that most of them</p>
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Yeah, what Poseur said.</p>
<p>Man, that stuff is nothing. </p>
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<p>This is so old...currently if you want a skewed sense of reality just look at at DataBox's stats....crazzzy.</p>
<p>Haha, guys, my stats aren't even comparable to the academic first team! I have no chance whatsoever to get on that list (I know they terminated the program, but even if it were still there...) with kids like O Dorney in my grade
lol at the end of the day I just hope I get into college, no way I'm making the first team</p>
<p>But who's the one here that actually knows O'Dorney?</p>
<p>^There's a fine line between knowing O Dorney and being O Dorney...regardless the first team was amazing, all of those kids are so inspirational!</p>
<p>Haha, the following will definitely give you skewed senses of reality:</p>
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Physics Olympiad Semi qualifier 2006, Team 2007 USAMO Qualifier 2005-08, MOP Red Group 2005, Black Group 2006 BAMO First Place 2004-06, Grand Prize 2008 Science Bowl Second Place Regionals National Merit Scholarship Semiqualifier National AP Scholar</p>
<p>Biography
Born and raised in sunny California , I was in the comparatively insignificant and foul-weathered Massachusetts for MIT’s campus preview weekend, when I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I have qualified for the US Physics Team for a second year.</p>
<p>I first got my start in academic contests in middle school, starting with the MATHCOUNTS competitions where I placed in nationals in the eighth grade. That year I performed well in the AMC line of competitions, qualifying for the USAMO. After attending MOP in ninth grade as part of the extended program, I topped out in tenth grade with qualification in the black group of MOP. That year I also took the Physics AP courses through EPGY and was a physics Olympiad semi-qualifier; the next year, after preparing more for the exam, I was fairly surprised when I received the letter informing me I had qualified for the physics team for the first time.</p>
<p>In school I've skipped a number of classes, but have made up for it through a few college-level courses through the EPGY program. I'm a member of the Math, Science and JETS club at our school, as well as a fairly inactive member of robotics, and have participated in many local mathematics contests as well as been on the school Science Bowl team where we have managed to score second place in regional for two years, in which I was in charge of knowing physics, earth science, and astronomy.</p>
<p>I have also spent a lot of time at summer programs, including CTY, MOP, as well as the Physics Team training camp and the International Summer School for Young Physicists, and the Ross Mathematics Program. I also attended Boy Scout summer camp couple times. I am currently a Life Scout in the Saratoga-based Troop 508 and enjoy tromping through the outdoors.</p>
<p>I spend much of my free time browsing and discussing politics in an online forum, and enjoy bashing heads against others through text. I also enjoy playing Starcraft, at which I am a tolerable player. For years I took piano lessons and now play for my own enjoyment, fabricating what always seem to be endless variations on the same song. I enjoy reading fantasy novels, and history, and doodle copiously in my free time, filling the margins of my pages with random shapes or occasionally landscapes. I also enjoy taking photographs, and have plenty of impressive subject matter that hopefully obscure my lack of photography skills, from the Grand Canyon to Banff to Alaska, which I have visited over the course of a number of vacations. I look forward to seeing both old and new faces at camp. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
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Member of US Team to International Linguistics Olympiad, AMC and AIME, USACO, JETS, Wonderfest, Member of SET, Davidson Young Scholar</p>
<p>Biography
I was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1993 (or so reliable witnesses tell me) and I’ve lived in far too many states since then. In fact, I’ve lived in all of the time zones of the continental US at least once. I developed my unhealthy addiction to reading at the age of four and soon began to practice my newfound skill by reading the backs of breakfast cereal boxes (the ingredients lists are quite entertaining). In first grade, my math teacher arranged to have me placed in a higher math class, which eventually led to my taking algebra in the summer after third grade. Along the way, I also skipped two grades (4th and 6th), so I ended up taking AP Calculus BC in ninth grade. Last year I took AP Statistics and this year I am taking Differential Equations and Multivariable Calculus.</p>
<p>I first got interested in physics when I read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time in first grade. Since then, I’ve read many of Feynman’s works, including parts of his Lectures on Physics. I was also fortunate enough to attend a lecture by Professor Hawking a few years ago and even ate dinner in the same room as him. I have taken several physics courses, starting with the EPGY (distance learning from Stanford) AP Physics B course when I was in middle school. In high school, I took both of the AP physics courses and exams. I was invited to take the Physics Olympiad last year by my AP Physics C teacher, Dr. Nelson, and advanced to semifinals.</p>
<p>Apart from physics and math, I am also interested in linguistics. I have participated in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad for the last two years and this year I am part of the US team for the ILO. I enjoy reading obscure linguistics books and papers in my spare time.
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AMC 12 School winner (2007, 2008), USAMO qualifier (2006, 2007, 2008), 2007 China Girls’ Math Olympiad Bronze Medalist, USAPhO semifinalist (2007), National Science Bowl 9th Place (2007), USABO semi-finalist (2008), USAMTS (Gold- 2008, Silver- 2007), Siemens-Westinghouse Regional semi-finalist (2008), Piano (8 years)</p>
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I’m currently a junior at Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, CaliforniaA. I’m a Californian through and through; I consider anything below 60 degrees Fahrenheit to be “cold” and anything below 50 degrees to be “freezing.” I love the eclectic culture and liberal political atmosphere here in the Bay Area, and I wouldn’t want to live out my high school years anywhere else.</p>
<p>I’ve always been an avid reader, and I enjoy philosophical works, especially those of the existentialist movement; my favorite is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Besides english, history is one of my favorite subjects. I’m currently taking AP U.S. History, and next year I am taking AP World History. My love for history mostly stems from my interest in current events and politics. Outside of school, I like exploring downtown Berkeley and San Francisco, watching The Office, and singing along with any song that’s playing on the radio.</p>
<p>I used to think I would not get involved in math and science. As a little girl, I liked roller skating and dress up, and I disliked staying inside to study. In seventh and eighth grade, I began skipping grades in math. I finished AP Calculus BC in eighth grade; by then, I had realized math was something I was pretty good at. In freshman year, I got an 11 on AIME but missed making MOP by 1 point on the USAMO. That year was also the first year I took USAPhO after a couple months of self study; I got a whopping 17 points out of something like 140 possible. It was narrowly missing MOP and spectacularly failing USAPhO that inspired me to start working harder at math and science. Almost surprisingly to myself, I actually had a lot of fun doing so. Fast forward two years—by the time camp rolls around, I’ll have finished all the AP science and math courses, as well as Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra. Right now, the fact that I’ve qualified for camp still feels surreal. I have always self-studied physics, so attending lectures at camp is something I’m looking forward to.
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<p>these kids were pressured by parents. notice that many of them randomly organized fundraisers(surely to pad their applications). we also can't be sure how much of their research was their own work. most of america's brightest minds led NORMAL childhoods.</p>
<p>^so true...that's because they knew marginal analysis and where to draw the line...the students on this list are overkill and mostly lost causes</p>