Whats your greatest accomplishment?
 

Kz will love the last one I died laughing

Hahaha... "I don't believe the children are our future anymore."

gotta catch um all

lol, mind you there is a Canadian that invented the way to battle cancer, via micrometal being put into the tumor then having a laser essentially "burn" the tumor by heating up the micrometal particles.

I am unsure of the clean out process and if the small trace amounts of metal would hurt you but I am assuming your body would abosrb/heal like any other would after that point.

This girl was only 16 years old

they put the dumbest ppl they talk to on the air. just like jay leno. i doubt our brightest teenagers are just walking down the street and have the social skills to answer questions for a TV show.

but how bout this. when u were a teenager, what was YOUR greatest accomplishment???

When I was in high school I ran a WC2 league on AOL (AOWL - America Online Warcraft League =P). We only had maybe 100 people participating, but AOL gave me "Community Leader" status which paid for my account for a couple years. And they let me develop some dedicated screens in the AOL client using their proprietary scripting language, "Rainmain". I thought that was kinda cool.

In 10th grade, we got those Texas Instruments graphing calculators (TI-82) for math class. I wrote a bunch of games like yahtzee and connect four which got popular in our class. Since the teacher let us use those calculators during tests, I decided to write a program which let you input equations (quadratic equations, etc) and the program would solve it for you. This program was of course even more popular than yahtzee. The teacher, confused at what was going on, began demanding we start showing our work in addition to our answers. So I updated the program to also generate the work. It must've been funny for the teacher to see all the kids tests with the exact same work and answers shown. It wasn't too long before the teacher simply banned the use of the calculators during tests. That was my 15 mins of fame in high school.

I don't know if either of those qualify as "accomplishments", but it's the best I got. =P

I wish I had you in my class Asano, and yes we had those calculators or physics/math aswell

"Checked a kid, then knocked him out."

Kickflip to crooked grind.

Back at the beginning of the soda pop crusade in schools, me and my buddies ran a business out of our lockers at school. We had wire rolling racks in our lockers with different brands. Kids could find us either in between classes or in the lunch room and pay $1/can. We ended up making a few hundred dollars each before that venture was shut down.

Also trig state champ and AMC champ once and runner up every other year behind a wiz kid who made perfect scores on his ACT and SAT.

Biggest feat of all though...


Joined Fuse!

That's awesome. Why'd they shut you down?

A couple guys got a little cocky and started selling too much too quickly. There was was a fairly large standing crowd around where they sat at the beginning of every lunch. After about a week a few of that the monitors started to notice. The guy that came down on us was one of the typical intimidating gym coach types (some of his antics included using a ruler to make sure hair isn't too long and inspecting the tags of your shirt to make sure they are the official brand...) Anywho, he threatened suspension and that was enough to dissuade us from selling too openly. Suspension probably would have been unlikely but I'm sure there is something in the rules about students operating a business on campus. I've heard of schools not caring that students do that just as long as it is off of school property (like out on the sidewalk), but we weren't an open campus and weren't allowed outside. We tried to keep up the locker sales but they weren't profitable enough to be worth our time so we gave it up soon after.

Also, loved the calculator stories. My grades suffered (relatively) bad when I got myself one of those calcs. The big game in my school was Plantation...(homogenous Catholic school, go figure)

Young entrepreneurship at its best!

I ran a online MTG business through AOL starting in 7th grade buying/selling/trading through email/chatrooms there which funded me through high school and part of my college tuition. This was before ebay so I could get away with hustling hard and it opened my eyes to the power of the internet where I could deal internationally. Once ebay took over and competition flooded in I stopped so it only lasted until I got to high school. However, the best part about it is I kept a lot of cards for nostalgia, and 15 years later they are rolling stronger than ever before.

My TI-83 got me through many dull moments, Tetris was my go to.