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October 29, 2006
some must read blogs and 1omniplogchai5
while others must do what they do, and even such superheroes as Dr. Dement must, at times, rest.
Prof. Mary Carskadon at Brown did a spectacular job mentoring me for my Westinghouse (now Intel) Science Talent Search entry (as did great Stuy teachers like Mr. Farbstein).
She had me compose a questionaire survey on sleep habits and a questionaire survey on physical maturation, and then I got a four schools to have their Jr. Chai students distribute the surveys, and, with the extensive help of my grandmother&mom, compiled the data for statistical analysis, which btw confirmed that physical maturation correlates with eveningness (a propensity to sleep and wake later).
The kids at the religious school where I had attended kindergarten with DW dutifully answered all questions, no problem. The kids at the school that some of my hebrew school (i.e., as a supplement to secular school) classmates came from ... wrote things like "Die Pervert!")
This was while at the Brown HS Summer program (with kinder-yeshiva inner circle member DW, hs classmate MR, other kewl kids J,R,&S,DF,some others, a bodybuilder roommate for/with whom I composed the answering machine jingle "'eh yo I'm Charlie Cho' 'and I'm MattJaaaay...' 'and we can't make it to the PHOne today', so wontcha, leave a message, at the tone, and we won't have, 2 pick a BONE!' (human beatbox)", and an al-Sabah). My Formal Logic prof sported dreadlocks and wore a Goo-Goo dolls shirt every day (and this was 1991) and was an excellent teacher, and my International Relations prof was pretty kewl too, and I got an A on my final, a Marxist analysis of Gulf I, as well as for the classes, and semi-finalist in the W(now I)STS.
Posted by matt at October 29, 2006 06:28 PM