On Feb 6, 1:22 pm, Nathan Sanders <nathansand...@aol.com> wrote:
> In article <iesiq3hfmc806bsrs7o98hlcegfas5q...@4ax.com>,
> zob <zob@ cox.net> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 00:30:14 -0700, "Cure_Ewan"
> > <karrde_smuggl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > >I can assure you that was not the case when I was participating in math
> > >competitions (yeah, I was a geek) and taking classes there in high school.
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> > *perk*
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> > Hey, I did the same thing! When I was a senior in Hig School (in New
> > England) I belonged to the "Mathletes." We were a bunch of geeks that
> > went around to colleges like Dartmouth and Yale and competed in
> > mathematics competitions also. I never met anyone else that nerdy
> > until now! ;-D
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> Oh zob, you have no idea. :-)
I was thinking the same thing, but I'm not going to go out of my way
to talk about how geeky I was/am.
> Math team, academic bowl, academic olympiad (yes, they were
> different!), debate, model UN, theatre competitions (not just
> performances, but actual competitions), and three summers at six-week
> nerd camps (one summer each for Latin, computer science, and math).
Did you do the Duke University TIP? (Talent Identification Program)
I started going to long music summer-schools after that, so there
wasn't time for much else.
You definitely have me beat on number of organizations, though! But
you left out one: chess club! Surely that was just an oversight,
right?
You *can't* be a true geek without chess club membership!
> Oh yeah, straight As and perfect attendance, too. :-P
Of course!
> I did play varsity tennis though, so I wasn't a total nerd!
I, too am well rounded.
*looks down at stomach*
But working on it!
> Nathan
-Aaron
Xan
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