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Yes, This letter is for you.

To whom it may concern (which is almost certainly you if you’re reading this, and many, many more), It’s awfully hard to reflect on 12 years of education and 17 years of life when that’s all that I know, yet doing just that seems important at a time like this.And I only get one shot […]

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Why do I have to show up for 3 more days?

Well, my last assignment was turned in today, so this year is pretty much over. From finally winning a regional CS contest, to actually getting rain at a football game, to the most awesome tetris-piece-shaped stats seating arrangement 2nd semester, to getting my drivers license, to actually being able to lord over all of the […]

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Not Everyone can be a winner… but Taylor is!

Spent Thursday afternoon through Saturday morning up at Austin, doing the UIL thing. Congratulate everyone who went, because Taylor appears to have won sweepstakes for the State UIL Academics contest!Computer Science was pretty much a hit for us. Frank, David, and I managed to go 1, 2, 3 on the written test, and got the […]

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Elevator 32

I’ve probably given this little rant quite a few times, but for completeness, here it comes again.So I asked Fairley how Prom was last year. Disregarding how creepy this is, here’s how it went:(17:34:26) me: how was prom(17:34:35) Michael Fairley: fun(17:34:52) me: thanks for probably the greatest explanation in the history of mankindCoincidentally, that’s about […]

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Thoughts from Admit Weekend

If this seems disorganized, I just listed a couple things to talk about, and expanded them independently. If you didn’t know, I left Wednesday afternoon for a jaunt out to Stanford for Admit Weekend, a reception for all the admitted students to get a feel for the campus and such. After spending two days there, […]

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The Origin of the Universe… was apparently really simple

Stephen Hawking gave a lecture yesterday at Texas A&M about the origin of the universe. Admittedly, it was very cool seeing him. That’s probably why I went, actually. Taylor sent a contigent of kids to go on a school bus, and we had quite an outing. Unfortunately, it sucked.Of course, it’s nothing on him. He’s […]

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Good Job breaking them Stereotypes…

Do math, end up looking like these guys…

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Just because I know I have to throw it in, I’m going to Stanford. Moving on, I’ve re-developed my obsession for You Don’t Know Jack. Back in the day, Jellyvision made a video game of full length trivia games. Well, apparently it wasn’t profitable enough to keep up, so they took a break, and have […]

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And so life changes

It’s amazing how you can be so set on something, and have thought you thought out everything, but have that change in an instant. University of Texas at Austin: Accept. Turing Scholars: Accept. Dean’s Scholar: Accept.Carnegie Mellon University: Accept.Harvard College: Reject.Brown University: Accept.Stanford University: Accept.I was so freaking sure that I would end up at […]

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The Break is… broken

Of course, break is over, and it was back to school today. Which was an extremely dissatisfying feeling.The pattern for breaks is quite amazing: the week before, we’re ridiculously anxious for it, making it a really painful week. The week of, we kick back and have a blast. We’re supposed to use it to gather […]