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Describe your most glorious academic achievement

I can think of two situations:

My 2nd year of college, I took an honors history & analysis of music class. I really had no understanding of musical analysis, but really pushed myself and wrote a sprawling, heavily researched and nuanced paper on one of the compositions of Hildegard von Bingen (a nun in 12th century Germany). My professor was really impressed, and even suggested that I expand on it and submit it for publication in an academic music journal(!!!). The fact that this was outside of my area of study made it even more rewarding.

I had a similar experience writing on the echoes of Hiroshima in japanese film for a film/history class.

yes, I want a cookie!
 
My 17 page philosophy paper this semester definitely takes the cake. It was a critique on Nietzsche's will to power, criticizing it as unbalanced, androcentric, and neglecting the Eros drive. I started outlining and writing the fucking thing this past thursday at 11pm (it was due friday) and worked 21 hours straight with 2 20 minute breaks to eat cereal in the morning and a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich in the afternoon. I've never worked so had and well in such a small period of time in my life. It turned out pretty good and I think I will get a good grade on it, but we'll see.
 
The feeling when i found out I came joint top in my school with my GCSE grades was great! My academic abilities kind of started going down hill after that! But its nice to know i was once capable of such things!
 
My greatest achievement was probably completing and handing in a sociology essay i got a credit for, my first real essay at uni on the comedown from the best speed high of my life (first big dose and w/ no tolerance).I remember when i got to uni to hand it in i was sweating profusely, my head was so fucked i couldn't concentrate enough to read maps, i was sketching out and in a horrible mood, took me over an hour to find the place to hand it in. I still have no idea how i managed get the motovation let alone the brainpower to finish it in the first place.

The point of the story is if your a junky you'll prolly have fairly poor achievements in life atleast if you use your drugs for play and not work:p
 
glorious and academic have not in the past four years of my life ever been used in the same sentence...
 
Getting into graduate school, after researching and planning out the whole process by myself. It took months between finding the schools (8!), getting all the transcripts together, writing essays, sending writing samples and packets of stuff, etc. I negotiated the interviews, financial aid, and moving situations alone as well. When I finally moved into my new town, it felt like a major accomplishment. :)
 
Freshman year of high school I was in the advanced Biology class, and we all had to do science fair projects. I'm a total science geek, so I took it upon myself to do a kick ass project. I wrote a computer program that takes data from songs and creates new ones based off the data from the original. I took the data from a bunch of top 20 songs and plugged it into my program to create new songs. My new songs even tested higher than some of the originals. My idea was jacked by a company and is now being used to make millions of dollars within record companies. I think I might sue for copyright infringement (yes, ideas are protected by copyright laws). Acutally, no I won't, but it pisses the fuck out of me cuz I did this stuff as a 14-year-old and then 5 years later huge corporations are using the same technology to predict hit music.

But anyhoo, for getting first place in the freshman class for my project, I got to go to the International Science and Engineering Fair, and it was the most fucking amazing experience of my life. I had more fun there than anywhere I've ever been or in any other experience I've ever had. Definitely my most glorious achievement. I felt like I could walk on water :)
 
i'm proud of my overall performance. i'm in the college of my choice, not yet in the major of my choice though. i need at least a 3.5 and even then i will not be accepted until 2005. however, i'm 100% determined to get the 3.5 by 2005, and right now my current GPA is 3.27. which is going to change as soon as i get my next set of grades, because i got all A's and B+'s on my midterms :D
 
Being taken out of class during red ribbon week in middle school for spreading the truth about the war on drugs.
 
out of 100+ applicants, 13 got interviews. i got an interview.

hopefully i can update this in a few weeks saying i got into the program.

and then 2 years later say that i graduated

first step first, and thats the interview :)
 
spork said:
My greatest achievement in school so far was all of last semester. I got a 4.0.

My parents told me that if I got a 4.0, they would buy me a laptop..It always helps to have something to work for.:)
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i was promised a laptop when i graduate high school :(



*note the sad face. i sure hope you got yours so at least theres a silver lining to my gray cloud.
 
about to graduate from UCSD as a bioengineer and i can pretty much count the number of classes i've been to on my hands. maybe i'll need some toes too.
 
I had to write a research paper for US history spring of senior year comparing prohibition with the War on Drugs (my choice). I, being a crazy procrastinator, started my research 9pm the night before it was due. Now, knew where I was going to get all my information for the drug half of my paper, but I hadn't a clue about the prohibition section.

Fortunately, due to the wonders of the internet and adderall, I whipped out 3200 words, a solid B, and a pretty good paper.
 
I wrote the third and final chapter of my senior thesis in a 24-hour ritalin binge, while also hung over from the ecstasy I had taken the night before. Handing that in, and actually feeling good about what I had written, was certainly my proudest moment. Even more so when I ended up getting summa readings and a big prize for my thesis! If only they knew the conditions under which it was produced...
 
I would say actually completing my senior project for Telecommunications.

I had two complete fucktards for group members which put it all on myself pretty much.

It was a 100+ page paper, a 15 minute power point presentation, and a huge visual explaining a network upgrade.

The mock upgrade (for those who know what i'm talking about) we were to do hypothetically was this:
An electric utility company in 4 states
29,000 end users
3 different type of office buidlings with a different set up in each kind.
All end users needed to go from 10mpbs to 100mpbs.
We had to make it cost effective and another upgrade shouldn't be needed for another 5 years.
This basically gave us 1000 of layer 2 switches to upgrade, and 300 layer 3 routing switches to upgrade.

We had to re-map the IP addressing scheme ( i don't know why.. that wouldn't happen in real life)..
The paper was a full documentation on the old equipment, new equipment, protocols used, wiring mediums used, the upgrade process, a time management detail for the upgrade, economic break down of the upgrade, blah blah blah..

I recieved a 94 on the project.
 
I've been thinking about this since the thread first got posted... and today I had a look through my undergrad thesis, and thought, this is a fucking good piece of work... 90 pages of fun. That was such a weight off my chest when I got it handed in.

I think that there have been greater achievements, but this one makes me feel warm inside :)
 
cumulative acheivements:
graduating summa cum laude
inducted into phi beta kappa, top six members-elect at my university.

singular acheivements:
I wrote a badass philosophy paper on concepts for Dewey.
Two badass papers for political economy.
(When its done) an honors thesis for an empirical psychological experiment I ran.

Heh...now I feel like a pompous braggart. Oh well, I guess this is the place for it.

ebola
 
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