Random Thread - Anything Goes
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@scottalanmiller I don't get it
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Washington Post... same date, two markets....
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Roommate made a good showing but did not win Miss Texas USA. So her pageant days are over.
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
I wonder why DR chose blue on that? That was jarring to me for a Slave Leia. Honestly, the first character that popped to mind for me was Firiona Vie from EverQuest until I realized the chain was indicative of Slave Leia.
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@JaredBusch I'm colour blind so figured that it was just me. I wonder how much the colour is influenced by the lighting there, maybe it is fluorescent influence?
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Only swimsuit competition pic that the roommate got...
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12 Year old attends local Ivy League College, Cornell University.
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@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
12 Year old attends local Ivy League College, Cornell University.
The funny thing is that they rave that he's a genius, but then he picks Cornell. Something fishy there.
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@scottalanmiller Cornell bashing eh?
The general consensus is that if you're accepted to college at 12 years old, you're probably pretty smart.
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@nadnerB Man now I have to watch "The Mask" again.
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@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller Cornell bashing eh?
The general consensus is that if you're accepted to college at 12 years old, you're probably pretty smart.
But the general consensus is also that if you only get into Cornell, you are not able to get into normal colleges. Cornell is famous for being the place to "buy degrees". They are the school whose IT program only prepares you to be an entering freshman at MCC (the same projects are done for first semester of MCC as capstone for Masters at Cornell, but at MCC isn't a one week, no help project and at Cornell it is less of a deliverable and you have lots of assistance.)
Buying of degrees at Cornell is a major point undermining the view of the American education system abroad. Even the "other" Cornell laughs at Cornell degrees and won't accept Cornell students in easily. America's most important author of the century wrote heavily about the problems there.
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The book linked is "WLT: A Radio Romance"; Is that what you meant to link?
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If he was really a genius, he could have gone to MCC, for example, and been challenged.
Really, getting into college at 12 is impressive, but not THAT impressive. Think about the fact that nearly all US students get that option around at 15 anyway. My fifteen year old niece is part time in college, for example, and it's just normal for her school. They mix high school and college classes often these days. Since many colleges just repeat high school material for the first few years. Since college isn't an impressive challenge, doing it at 12 isn't all that impressive unless the school and program are impressive, Cornell is about as far from impressive as you can get without going to Phoenix.
What's impressive is that some high school decided to actually work with this kid. I know dozens of people that could have done college classes at twelve... if their high schools had not been designed to hold them back and refused to let them move forward when they were ready. You don't have to be special to do college at 12, you have to be lucky to have been one of the .001% given the chance to move that quickly.
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@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
The book linked is "WLT: A Radio Romance"; Is that what you meant to link?
Yes, goes in depth on the problems down there in Ithaca.
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@Mike-Ralston was ready to go to college around 14 but in NY, for example, that's not allowed. Both the high school laws forbid him not to be in high school and the SUNY campus rules forbid him to be on campus. So while he was ready for college at that age, the lack of ability to officially graduate from high school blocked him from going. Remember that there is no entrance requirement for the SUNY CC system, you get to prove yourself in classes rather than with entrance requirements. So "getting in" to college young means nothing (especially as the SUNY CC schools are harder than Cornell) other than that someone was willing to let you be on campus at that age and that some high school was willing to give up their funding to let you go. Other than that, it means zero as anyone can go to a decent college... anyone.
