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from the his hate mail page

And while this high school student may not be brilliant because he isnt university educated yet, i soon will be. Also I am at the top of my class in physics, chemistry, and calc. So if I am a dumbass, id hate to think what the rest of highschoolers are.

You're quite an arrogant little high school kid, aren't you? You really think that your feeble little high school class valedictorian crap means anything? Every single person in first-year UW engineering was at the top of his high school class. Three quarters of these guys failed out before the end of the program. Being at the top of your high school class means nothing.

Well, one thing, if Wong was in first year engineering then he was the valedictorian of his high school. But I mean, why doesn't it? What about someone who never got anything but an A+ in high school (and by that I mean a GOOD high school, or a prep school not one where someone graduates without being able to solve for X in 4x + 2= 10? There's a prep school here in my town which is the one of the top in the country and kids there do pretty good in college, one even in my public high school I went to got accepted to Harvard, and she the valedictorian of the class before me.

By the way- I still remember Richie's Rich's real name, if anyone can get tell me I'll be their slave for a week- not!

There's a prep school here in my town which is the one of the top in the country and kids there do pretty good in college

Ok so he knows more than somone who ALREADY HAS A DEGREE? Because he's more likley to do good in courses Wong already took?


Look at that logic before I smack you

I didn't know being in the top percentile = valedictorian!

Huh? Who's richie and what is this about?

edit: I was one of the two best students of my highschool class. It prepared me to do a good entry at college, and to finish the first year with good grades. But I soon realized I knew nothing.

Colonel Olrik wrote:Huh? Who's richie and what is this about?

Look at the hate mail page on Mike's ST vs SW site. You should see hime there.

Colonel Olrik wrote:Huh? Who's richie and what is this about?

From Mikes haitmail page. Its near the top I think. He just brags about how Daddys going to send him to a top university. I think he also said something about being racially superior to poor people or something.

Complete fucktard.

Temjin wrote:

Colonel Olrik wrote:Huh? Who's richie and what is this about?

Look at the hate mail page on Mike's ST vs SW site. You should see hime there.

Ah, that was a quote of Mike's rebutal. Now I remember. I've read it a long time ago.

This was funny:

And as long as the stock market is around, ill always have money.

Ummm... yeahhhh...

So anyway, I know this MS millionaire. She's a... little bit less of a millionaire now... Something to do with the stock market... *scratches chin*

Ok so he knows more than somone who ALREADY HAS A DEGREE? Because he's more likley to do good in courses Wong already took?


Look at that logic before I smack you

But look at what I was saying, I didn't say he knew more than Wong just that why doesn't being a valedictorian show a good degree of work, especially if you got nothing but A's in high school?

Malecoda wrote:This was funny:

And as long as the stock market is around, ill always have money.

Ummm... yeahhhh...

So anyway, I know this MS millionaire. She's a... little bit less of a millionaire now... Something to do with the stock market... *scratches chin*

You mean...... You actually want millionaires to be knowlegable about where their money comes from.....? That's unthinkable! That why they pay all those accountants to all the work for them!!!


On a unrelated note: Yay! I finally made Padawan Learner! It just took about 1/2 a year........

Mike simply says that being in the top percentile doesn't automatically protect you from getting weeded out. The kid had only an unsubstantiate dclaim that he was smart, whereas MW went through the meat grinder and got his paper. I don't see where your conflict lies.

Shrykull wrote:
Well, one thing, if Wong was in first year engineering then he was the valedictorian of his high school.

Most people who take engineering/physics are. It takes a liking of mathematics and physics that you seldom find in people with only average grades.

But I mean, why doesn't it? What about someone who never got anything but an A+ in high school (and by that I mean a GOOD high school, or a prep school not one where someone graduates without being able to solve for X in 4x + 2= 10?

Then that still means nothing, as far as knowledge is concerned, and aptitude in college. Unless we're talking about a child genius (those who already know everything at age ten) having high success at school does not mean equal success at college. If you look at the people quiting in the first year, you'll see plenty who entered with only A's. There was one idiot in my class, in the 1st year, who bragged about his 19/20 entry grade. He didn't last the first year. Others with similar and poorer results did.

Also, it only takes the first semester crash course in math and algebra to realize that high school math means nothing, even if you've excelled in it.

Being very good at high school helps, obviously, but it is not enough, not by a long shot.

There's nothing to back up his claim but his own word. I can say I'm the smartest person in the Midwest, but that doesn't make it true (my IQ score makes it true ) And if it the kid does get the best grades in school, it doesn't change the fact that he can't apply that knowledge. The fact that he can get more answers on a Chemistry test right than the school quarterback doesn't make him smart.

Temjin wrote:

Malecoda wrote:This was funny:

And as long as the stock market is around, ill always have money.

Ummm... yeahhhh...

So anyway, I know this MS millionaire. She's a... little bit less of a millionaire now... Something to do with the stock market... *scratches chin*

You mean...... You actually want millionaires to be knowlegable about where their money comes from.....? That's unthinkable! That why they pay all those accountants to all the work for them!!!

Errrr... you missed my point. Kid says "Oh, I'll always have money bec the stock market". I say, "I know a millionaire who got reamed in the last stock market crash". Which is generally how that sort of thing happens.

Also, being a millionaire doesn't place you in power shoes in a corner office on the top floor of the Darth Vader building. It just means you can retire. She's not the only millionaire I know, and they're not intimidating rich people with an army of lawyers and accountants. Naturally they have to have lawyers and accountants, but so does anyone who makes money and has a family. They're normal people, just like you and me. Only with nicer houses.

I didn't know being in the top percentile = valedictorian!

I thought by top he meant the absolute top whoever finished the year with the highest GPA, and who would be the valedictorian if more than one person finished the year with a 4.0, or just two of the highest same GPA's?

Shrykull wrote:

I didn't know being in the top percentile = valedictorian!

I thought by top he meant the absolute top whoever finished the year with the highest GPA, and who would be the valedictorian if more than one person finished the year with a 4.0, or just two of the highest same GPA's?

I'm just not sure what is meant by top. Top percentile, or top student period? I'm not sure UW is THAT selective, but then again, I've never seen it.

If these kiddies think they're so smart, I challenge them to take 3rd & 4th year university final exams. I'd be surprised if they can get anything right besides their name.

aerius wrote:If these kiddies think they're so smart, I challenge them to take 3rd & 4th year university final exams. I'd be surprised if they can get anything right besides their name.

I wouldn't give 'emthat much credit.

aerius wrote:If these kiddies think they're so smart, I challenge them to take 3rd & 4th year university final exams. I'd be surprised if they can get anything right besides their name.

Humm.. third year..

Fluid mechanics II
Solid mechanics I
Vibrations
Thermodinamics II
Electronic and instrumentation
Automation
And more..

Yep, they're fucked.

edit: screw it. Challenge them to solve this equation: Uxx = Vtt

I've read the debate with that kid, and I like when he brags about being at the top of his class, and then Mike mentions that everyone in his classes were at the top of their classes, and a lot of them flunked out. I also believe Ted Rogers bragged about his qualifications in the same way

Shrykull wrote:

I didn't know being in the top percentile = valedictorian!

I thought by top he meant the absolute top whoever finished the year with the highest GPA, and who would be the valedictorian if more than one person finished the year with a 4.0, or just two of the highest same GPA's?

Well, in Orange County, FL, it's done really weird. The person with the highest weighted GPA AND everyone with an unweighted 4.0 is considered valedictorian. My graduating year we had 5. My friend Janna was the highest unweighted. 3 of the other 4 were intelligent people, took AP courses, dual enrollment, full scholarships, yadda yadda yadda. The last guy was a waste. One honors class his entire time in HS, and that was Spanish for Spanish Speakers III. His last semester was English IV and 3 PE courses. Most of his maths and sciences were Applied courses (the lowest we have). I graduated 23rd in my class with a 3.8 something GPA, mainly because I got Bs in Geometry and Algebra II (never take courses from the football coach in my HS...only the football players get As). All my sciences I got A, my college math courses all As, and I'm carrying a higher GPA in college than I did in HS.

Would I say I know more than Wong about science? Not on your life. He works with this kind of stuff day in, day out. Stuff about philosophical ideas or theological connotations I'll argue if something's misrepresented. Science? I'll doublecheck figures, but I took physics four years ago, and I barely remember the kinematics, let alone the basic nuclear stuff we got into.

The Dark wrote:

Shrykull wrote:

I didn't know being in the top percentile = valedictorian!

I thought by top he meant the absolute top whoever finished the year with the highest GPA, and who would be the valedictorian if more than one person finished the year with a 4.0, or just two of the highest same GPA's?

Well, in Orange County, FL, it's done really weird. The person with the highest weighted GPA AND everyone with an unweighted 4.0 is considered valedictorian.

WTF?

Here in Pinellas, it goes strictly by GPA. If there's a magnet program, then they're considered seperate schools for the purposes of valedictorian selection. Thus, we had 2 valedictorians (one with ~4.5, the other with ~4.2).

FWIW, I was ranked 10th in my class and went to a good high school. Engineering school gave me a beat-down anyways.

Colonel Olrik wrote:edit: screw it. Challenge them to solve this equation: Uxx = Vtt

Uxx would be Ux^2 and Vtt would be Vt^2, right? If I only knew what they represented...lol.

OR is it Ut and t are separate symbols? And Vt and t are separate symbols?









































Could you just show the solution? LOL

I just pray for the day that this Richie Rich shows up on this board!

phongn wrote:

The Dark wrote:
Well, in Orange County, FL, it's done really weird. The person with the highest weighted GPA AND everyone with an unweighted 4.0 is considered valedictorian.

WTF?

Here in Pinellas, it goes strictly by GPA. If there's a magnet program, then they're considered seperate schools for the purposes of valedictorian selection. Thus, we had 2 valedictorians (one with ~4.5, the other with ~4.2).

FWIW, I was ranked 10th in my class and went to a good high school. Engineering school gave me a beat-down anyways.

The local IB school had 31 valedictorians, and all of them were allowed to speak I heard it was a 4 hour ceremony. We got 920 through in under 3 hours with 5 speakers, each limited to 5 minutes.