An overachievement award
“And you thought you were a stud for taking 5 AP classes senior year…”
[Seventeen] students from Montgomery County (Md.) Public Schools have earned the rank of semi-finalist at Intel.
Intel, the computer microchip company? No, dodo. The 2009 Intel Science Talent Search, the holy grail of science nerds.
And of course, we’re going to be needing every science nerd we can get in our Zoomy Technological Future. These are the names we’ll be looking for:
The Montgomery County semi-finalists are: Eric An, Christopher Bodine, Jean Fan, Anton Frolenkov, Edward Gan, Akimitsu Hogge, Ansh Johri, Sneha Kannan, Debattama Sen, Benjamin Shih, Sang Tian, Srinivas Vasudevan, Sikander Porter-Gill, Re-I Chin, Kavitha Anandalingam, Mingda Su, Philip Kong.
You were expecting maybe John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt?
Mark Alger »
28 January 2009 · 5:29 pm
How about being able to graduate at the end of JUNIOR year with 5 APs. And taking three more senior year anyway.
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McGehee »
28 January 2009 · 5:36 pm
Which one?
sya »
28 January 2009 · 8:53 pm
This makes me feel like I’m such a total slacker.
CGHill »
28 January 2009 · 8:57 pm
Not to worry. There will always be people who make you feel like you’ve accomplished a lot less than you should have, even if you’re on top of your game or on top of the world.
Tom Lehrer had this sobering thought way back in 1965: “When Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.”
fillyjonk »
29 January 2009 · 7:26 am
Comparing one’s self to others can either lead to insufferable smugness (if one spends a lot of time, for example, watching The Jerry Springer Show) or abject despair, if one considers people of one’s own age who have done much more. (I used to keep such a list. Wes Anderson and Alain de Botton were on it – both born in 1969, the same year as I was.) Recently I’ve come to conclude that the fact that I am employed, pulling my own weight financially, and have not been in trouble with the law probably means I am doing sufficiently well to not need to compare myself to others.
Dan B »
29 January 2009 · 10:34 pm
The Montgomery County semi-finalists are: Eric An, Christopher Bodine, Jean Fan …
Any kin to Jethro Bodine?
Jetcat45 »
10 February 2009 · 8:50 pm
As a child, Michael Jackson (in his prime) was always there as a reminder that I could never be famous or super-talented… He was always one step ahead and brilliant. But I still don’t rejoice in his fall…