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06-08-2006, 01:57 PM
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Re: Nerdiest things you have ever done
In my first semester of college, I was taking Calculus III for honors students (this means it was the normal Calculus III material, but with more emphasis on proofs instead of computations) at 8 AM. The morning of the first midterm, I was taking my sister to school and got in a car accident. I didn't get to class until 8:45 AM. I apologized to the professor for arriving late, told him what happened and asked if I could still take the exam. He said yes, but that I had until 9:00 AM like everyone else. A few minutes before 9:00 AM I turned in my exam (and most of the class was still working) having solved every problem as well as the "challenge problem." Early that afternoon I got an email from the professor asking me to go see him. I went and saw him and he handed me an already filled out form with my name, student number, etc. to declare mathematics as my major. He told me it would be a huge error for me to not sign it and turn it in to the registrar's office. I did just that and in my second year I was taking graduate level courses.
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#32
06-08-2006, 01:59 PM
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Re: Nerdiest things you have ever done
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I bowl in a league-I am not sure where this would fall on a nerd meter. People seem to be divided on the nerdiness of this. [/ QUOTE ] I bowl on the ASU bowling team, I'm not that nerdy [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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#37
06-08-2006, 02:21 PM
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Re: Nerdiest things you have ever done
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In my first semester of college, I was taking Calculus III for honors students (this means it was the normal Calculus III material, but with more emphasis on proofs instead of computations) at 8 AM. The morning of the first midterm, I was taking my sister to school and got in a car accident. I didn't get to class until 8:45 AM. I apologized to the professor for arriving late, told him what happened and asked if I could still take the exam. He said yes, but that I had until 9:00 AM like everyone else. A few minutes before 9:00 AM I turned in my exam (and most of the class was still working) having solved every problem as well as the "challenge problem." Early that afternoon I got an email from the professor asking me to go see him. I went and saw him and he handed me an already filled out form with my name, student number, etc. to declare mathematics as my major. He told me it would be a huge error for me to not sign it and turn it in to the registrar's office. I did just that and in my second year I was taking graduate level courses. [/ QUOTE ] That's an awesome story; I wish I was that excited about something school/career-related
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#38
06-08-2006, 02:22 PM
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Re: Nerdiest things you have ever done
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In my first semester of college, I was taking Calculus III for honors students (this means it was the normal Calculus III material, but with more emphasis on proofs instead of computations) at 8 AM. The morning of the first midterm, I was taking my sister to school and got in a car accident. I didn't get to class until 8:45 AM. I apologized to the professor for arriving late, told him what happened and asked if I could still take the exam. He said yes, but that I had until 9:00 AM like everyone else. A few minutes before 9:00 AM I turned in my exam (and most of the class was still working) having solved every problem as well as the "challenge problem." Early that afternoon I got an email from the professor asking me to go see him. I went and saw him and he handed me an already filled out form with my name, student number, etc. to declare mathematics as my major. He told me it would be a huge error for me to not sign it and turn it in to the registrar's office. I did just that and in my second year I was taking graduate level courses. [/ QUOTE ] That makes you a genius, not a nerd. Very impressive though.
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#39
06-08-2006, 02:23 PM
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Re: Nerdiest things you have ever done
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When I first learned how to long divide (3rd/4th grade-ish) I took a bunch of sheets of paper, stapled them together until I they combined to the length of my living room. I then wrote some digit, then a long division sign with numbers that reached to the end of the sheet, and divided the gigantic, multiple-sheet number by the first number. I stapled pieces of paper going down diagonally to do the work. I did this multiple times. By my senior year in highschool I was no longer particularly interested in math, however. -bb. [/ QUOTE ] I would do this too
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#40
06-08-2006, 02:28 PM
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Re: Nerdiest things you have ever done
The period when I was addicted to playing Diablo II was the Nerdiest period in my life. I would play all day and think about it non-stop when I was at school. Draw pictures of my charachters and think about what I would do for trades and stuff. I had two other friends who would play with me. There were other people who were casual players who I talked to about it every once and a while. But that game consumed my life, which is why I will never play WoW.
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