Prodigy
As if you didn't have an inferiority complex before, you'd probably get one now. The smartest mathematician in the world is a professor at UCLA. Terry Tao got his Ph.D. at Princeton by age 21 (note: most people are in their junior year of college by that time. Ph.D.s take anywhere from 5-8 years to complete...T^T) and received the Nobel Prize in Mathematics (given to only one person every four years--usually in ones entire academic career). My initial reaction upon reading "Big deal, age 31 professor in math gets Nobel Prize". Reading further down the article then made me realize how much of a big shot this guy is and and yet "effortlessly" intelligent and amazingly humble. How I wish I was that smart even if it was just math alone T^T.
All that aside, I've noticed that sometimes the actually smart people that I've come to know are usually the ones who are the most quiet, often times soft spoken, inhibited, and downtoearth. The ones lesser than those people (and smarter than me) academic wise, are the ones who grind their teeth always placing second best to the genius that doesn't even break a sweat. That is of course not always the case, but my friends who are in that genius category seem to fit that mold. As for me? I'm just an average Shine with Trendy dreams.
All that aside, I've noticed that sometimes the actually smart people that I've come to know are usually the ones who are the most quiet, often times soft spoken, inhibited, and downtoearth. The ones lesser than those people (and smarter than me) academic wise, are the ones who grind their teeth always placing second best to the genius that doesn't even break a sweat. That is of course not always the case, but my friends who are in that genius category seem to fit that mold. As for me? I'm just an average Shine with Trendy dreams.
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Saturday, August 26, 2006
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