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Have you considered writing history books? I'd read them.

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Thank you for this thread. I've noticed this too, where I know of about five recent Covid cases from friends and relatives who have recently traveled via airplane. Does that mean that flying means that you will, 100% certainly get Covid? Of course not. Does it mean that it's the only way you'll contract Covid? Also no. Am I, like most humans, absolutely terrible about statistics and risk analysis? Yes. But it does seem like from the anecdata that I've seen that there is something going on. And maybe it isn't the airplanes -- could be waiting in the TSA line or on the jetbridge or taxis or reduced immunity because of jetlag or ???

This is ridiculous. Let me guess, though, the people making these rules also are the ones complaining about how young people are lazy, don't want to work, and can't follow the rules. These same managers can't understand why they can't hire or keep enough employees?

Dumb question, but Dr. Hive knows all. I'm eager to get the omicron-specific vaccine booster when it it available, but I'm curious to know if it has a different name than the non-specific booster? When we sign up today, we are offered the choice of J&J, Moderna, Pfizer, and booster or initial. Will there be a different name for the new booster, or will all the new boosters after some date be the new ones?

Isn't this true for many formally diagnosed conditions that people minimize by comparing to much less serious issues? "Oh, I'm addicted to chocolate!". "He's just psychotic about his hobbies", "She's just autistic about having an orderly desk"... But I think this particular term is a bit tricky, as people have been using allusions to the mythical Narcissus for millennia in various meanings before the formal NPD diagnosis existed.

Oh, I see what you are saying now -- I thought you meant the public interviews at events. I think the NASA "internship" was just a one day visit/tour without an interview or big vetting process beforehand. I mean, if one introductory engineering class was enough that she wanted to pivot away from engineering, she really couldn't have been exposed to much engineering in this "internship". And how would this work with a 12 year old -- the NASA office wasn't in her home town, so did she and her Mom move there for several months? ASU is an enormous school, I don't think they require in-person interviews. The Med School thing, though, surely required interviews, and that, I must admit, confuses me. I think a lot of medical schools have early assured admissions, where if you continue to meet GPA/MCAT/coursework criteria as an undergrad, you are guaranteed admissions. This allows students to pursue electives that create more rounded doctors, without them feeling like they need to take 100% pre-med classes. I do feel sorry for her, because I fear that between Organic Chemistry and/or the MCAT, there's going to be a hard reckoning coming soon.

Reading between the lines, and applying some critical thinking, it seems clear to me that this wasn't what we'd think of as a typical high school or college summer internship, that pays a reasonable wage, requires 9 to 5 attendance in person at some office, and lasts for a couple of months. In all the interviews, she never mentions what she did. Sounds to me like some mid-level manager reached out to her, and offered her a day tour and maybe an honorary "internship", and some swag. Again, NASA has an agenda, too, as an agency subject to the whims of elected officials, they are well aware that they, too, have to market themselves, and look good, and do outreach.

I agree that the interviewers are not clueless, but what's an interviewer going to do? Verbally beat up a 12 year old? Keep in mind a lot of these interviewers have an agenda as well -- not to expose the truth, but to tell a feel-good story that inspires others and keeps people watching for more.

It sounds like all of her classes, except for labs, are taken on-line, as she lives at home in Texas, and claims to be full-time enrolled (?) in two colleges, one in Arizona, one in Alabama.

I meant in terms of reasonably prepping for, comprehending and understanding the labs. Clearly, doing it in a blur of a single, concurrent 30 hour session would have the same time commitment, but no one would think that is a pedagogically sound way to do things. I'm curious if you think you'd get as much out of a hyper-condensed, eight hours per day for a week lab course as you did the more traditional sequence.

You know, despite what the article said, I don't think she's actually doing two full four year undergraduate programs concurrently for the same degree at two institutions. Why would anyone do this? Who in advising would recommend this? Presumably, the classes from the two schools don't count for the other, so you'd need to take many of the exact same class twice, and all the general ed classes once for each school I think she's primarily at one school, and has taken a few classes online at the other.

Are there any chemistry or biochem moms on this thread? Website says that organic labs are 8 hours a day for 7 (consecutive?) days and biochem is 8 hours a day for five days. This seems a little crazy to me (does it include time to write-up the labs?), but I'm curious as to the opinions of someone with more expertise?

That's not the insinuation I'm getting from this thread. What I read a lot of posters here saying something like "If a child can handle some unchallenging University program of study at age 12, surely that means they could handle the rigors of a top-tier program when they are a few years older, and it would be better to wait and to go the better school". Now, I don't have much experience with profoundly gifted kids, so maybe this isn't true. Maybe these kids are just "accelerated", meaning that they've reached their academic peak at age 12, and if she waited six years to go to college, she would still be going to the same school. Personally, I doubt this, but I could be wrong. What I think is missing from our educational system is challenging, but age-appropriate curricula for high schoolers. Most high schoolers are just not as mature as college age students, and often need a different approach. They benefit from every-day small classes in a high school setting, but that doesn't mean that the classes can't be challenging. There are ways to have high-school maturity appropriate classes be as rigorous as college classes, but designed for high schoolers. Take Lukeion Latin & Greek classes for example -- they are very, very challenging, but at the same time, designed for high school kids. Same with the Art of Problem Solving Math curriculum. I'd like to see more of these kinds of options offered to high school kids, instead of dual-enrollment.

There's a bit more info in the Washington Post newspaper article linked early in the OP's link.

Truth be told, I'd rather see teenagers be cocky and brag about their academic achievements than brag about stuff they own, or their ability to attract someone of the opposite sex, or many of the other things I see teens going on about.

The article also said that she lives in Texas. I'm curious how she attends in-person labs at schools in Alabama and Arizona.

I wish nothing but the best for this girl, she does sound super interesting and cool. However, I think that the fact that a bright, motivated 12 year old can graduate from high school says as much about the high school as it does the student. But, then what is she (or her parents) supposed to do with a 12 year old high school graduate? Yes, she's much smarter and more dedicated than most other 12 year olds (and 18 year olds for that matter), but I'm guessing she isn't going to get accepted to an MIT or Harvard or somewhere tippy-top, especially if she still wants to study and live at home in Texas. Sounds like she is doing two independent undergrad programs, one at ASU, the other at Oakwood, both 100% online from home.

And also based on Jane Austen's Emma

Have any of the 1990s sitcoms held up well? Seinfeld is even worse.

I have to ask: As long as I can remember, I've loathed merry-go-rounds, and any playground equipment that would create dizziness, as when I would get dizzy, I would immediately get very, very unpleasant headaches and nausea, and need to lie down on the ground for 15 minutes to recover. None of the other kids would ever seem to be quite so strongly impacted, so I've never been one to go on merry-go-rounds or other like equipment. It always struck me as bizarre that so many playgrounds would have these devices of pain on them, but I guess few people have this reaction?

Why else would we have celebrated Independence Day on July 4th?

No, no, no -- that's not it at all. If you ORDER dark matter on Amazon, and the delivery truck gets stuck in one of the new roundabouts, THAT's what causes the tornadoes, doncha see?

Wait, so their lawyer admitted the client was guilty? You will add this to the things you tell the judge when you get your day in court, right?