What's your greatest intellectual achievement?

Published a paper in an academic journal freshman year. (It was a psychoanalytic criticism though...)

Congrats on your acceptance to Cornell friendo, your parents must be very proud of you

Giving a presentation to the Harvard Genetics Dept, with George Church present, and discussing project with him after.

>high school quick maffs competition winner
>attend community college years later
>past winners are in the math hallway
>get a 102 in that math class

I went to the professor every week just to clarify and solve usually the last few problems. Didn't even notice it until the last few eeks she was busy on the phone so I sat outside and waited...looked around and saw the billboard of names. I don't even know what's the point considering these people might not even go to the local community college. I went there because it was literally affordable even working at taco bell at $300 per class

Not undergrad, and not Cornell

>literally all the "much 140+ iq" people on Veeky Forums

a lot of people bash on community college, but really its pretty fucking cheap and if youre going to a state university afterwards then its not a bad idea at all

Honestly,
Designing some quite simple machines or their parts.

Oh my god Xander you didn't get an A-, that test was so easy though, nor any A's in physical chemistry, if you're not who I think you are then nice user

I really hope that image is a joke.

I don't usually talk about it.

National Merit Scholar

A few days ago I solved a probability theory puzzle called "the official /pol/ IQ test" though it was in a thread on this board.
One user responded "I guess it's time to retire that image now that someone has solved it" and another user said "holy shit that's genius, how did you figure that out."

Manipulating my coworkers and boss into thinking that I'm important and irreplaceable.

>not fooled himself to believing it is true
You still got work to do

>Siebel Scholar
They just give me a check for $35k it's pretty sweet. And now I'm in the same group as the CEO of Google how cool is that

Before this my "greatest achievement" would maybe be the NSF graduate fellowship

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Graduated from LSE. In economics, not something else that they're less good at

Economics is a meme.

Speaking as someone was accepted into Cambridge for Economics and majored in math and econ at UChicago

obtaining my computer engineering degree

If economics is a meme I wouldn't have an obscene salary :^)

What're you doing? Banking?

Also you know full well you could have gotten just as much with a math degree

Consulting. My undergrad is in math/econ, did management consulting for a year, then MA in economics and now I'm doing econ-oriented consulting (at the same MBB).

Have a lot of friends in banking atm, can't say I regret not going into it

Well, if consulting is your jam, keep at it. I steered into the quant hedge fund side of things and found economics increasingly useless over time. Now I just say I'm a math major.

Thats cool. I can imagine econ being useless in that regard. I feel like quantitative finance is almost as pure as an applied math field can get. Do you have/are you looking into getting an MFE?

Nah, I went back to get what is essentially a masters in machine learning instead. Steering straight into that math/stat beauty.

Got 100% on my country's version of the basic level high school exit math test, but written in English, instead of my own language. I went to an artsy high school, so it was kind of a big deal.

Then I went to study EE and I met a guy who actually did 100% on the high level version.
Luckily, I'm not that insecure and always suspected that I'm not that smart, (even though people were telling me otherwise) so facing my own mediocrity didn't hit me that hard.

quads

>posts pic of a quadruped
>gets quads

I learned how to integrate by substitution

I did a thing during my PhD where I considerably increased the accuracy and running time of my calculation by mixing a real-space hamiltonian with a reciprocal space one.

I'm sure somebody must have done it before, but I'm proud of it because I came up with it independently.

It's a very small part of my PhD, I didn't even write about it in my thesis, but it's the only thing I really feel like I invented, when the rest of my work was pretty much iteration over existing ideas.

One time I got about 70 (You)s by making an OC "your mother will die in her sleep tonight" post on /pol/ during peak election hype

How do you get started with this? I need make some simple machines to:
1) Fold and glue some envelopes for a particular product, it's really simple but the prints in my area charge a lot of money for that procedure.
2) Cut glass from 1mm to 4mm at most in a precise way, perhaps with a 0.5mm tolerance (circles mostly)
3) Grab these pieces of glass and make a small bezel on them at 45 degrees.

I could buy what I need from china but my country regulations are really a pain on the ass, I hope you respond, if not, I'll post this on /diy/
thanks.

Became the chain rule specialist on my calc class.

got an A in my honors abstract algebra class

Scored in the 99th percentile on the math section of the SAT

Haven't kms'd yet.

woah dude

Being able to, through OCD and intuition alone, develop my own algorithm for calculating the day of the week of a given date. It can be used for literally any date, but I am too used to do it only for the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, so I never delve out of this range.
When I say that, normies think I'm a genius, but my grades tell otherwise, such that if I were to guess my IQ, it would be around the first half of the 120s or even lower.

finding out myself how the program Melodyne works

I found analytically the width of some energy bands of a system no one calculated before

I got into Mensa
I always have my mensa card on me so that whenever I'm having an argument with some subpar non-mensan brainlet I can simply draw it and it's basically an autowin for me
also, im jewish
get rekt cucks

Triggering /pol/ on a daily basis.

Also, I'm a Jew.

i got average scores on my SAT, despite having missed 75% of school days from illness

Hey, i sometimes reply to you. How to get Jewish big tit waifu?

same

Be Jewish.

-I got into a few top schools (including Oberlin, Peabody and Carnegie Melon) for music composition.
-""published"" two ""research papers"" in my college's undergraduate journal. First was a couple novel proofs of known results in commutative algebra. Second was about a certain type of differential equation on smooth manifolds. First and only author on both, but got a lot of help from friends and professors.
-Got third authorship on a paper published in JACS.
-I won a few poetry competitions.
-Did all these things despite having a learning disorder where most sufferers have deficits in writing, math and music (NVLD).

So nothing too important, but at least I'm well rounded.

Who else here has published a paper? In what area?

About 20 in A list journals :P (ok 23 to be exact).

I have a first author published paper in Electrochimica Acta.

My adviser doesn't think I'm an idiot.
I'll probably have my first paper (in hep-th) by the end of the year.

Working out why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.

when i was in like 6th grade, we had these mandatory tests which are practically SAT's equivalents and at the time i was a bit of a brainlet

I didn't ever pay attention to school and pretty much did what I want because of my father's absence but i do recall me getting special treatment and being outstanding at times + hanging out with this smart chinese kid

anyways, i hated arithmatics and didn't get to study from the special arithmatics books, i always was medium

so the grading goes up to 550 i think (with the lowest being around 515) and I got pretty high, like 546 so I got really exited, especially when it turned out i was the highest of my class, only trumped by this chinese chick and the other class this albanian chick

from there it went downhill. i got more aware of my smarts but also depressed because my lazyness still haunts me and instead of studying i'm here on sci/

last year i could decide what path i would take
- economics and society
- culture and society
- nature and healthcare
- nature and technology

i had dropped maths due to bad grades, and even though i liked it during class, the homework part just didn't click with me

i did like biology, history, geography and similar subjects but when it comes down to it, for you to get somewhere with these subjects you usually need a STEM subject

now rests the option of a) becoming a pathetic "teacher" or any other joke or b) going to institutes for adults who want to repair damage from highschool by taking separate exams

when im done with highschool i'll probably want to take these seperate exams, with physics, chemistry and maths in mind - it's going to be hard but worth it

afterwards i go to college and then i'll try university for some PhD hopefully and this should take me to about 26-27 years of age which i could use to get a wife, get a job and get experience for my future, better job

it's going to be hard but it's going to be worth it and hope all my mental shit will be gone then

please don't ban me, just wanted to vent for a bit

>So nothing too important, but at least I'm well rounded.
Fuck off with your fake modesty.

I barely completed my Math minor at McGill with like a 2.9 GPA and now I'm trudging through my actuarial exams. To be fair though the class average in almost all my math classes was a C (2.0) so I dont feel that bad. Employers think i'm retarded though and I basically have no chance at even mid tier grad schools.

Time to kill myself.

If you work your ass off, you can do well. I did pretty terribly in high school, probably bottom half or quarter of my cohort. I went to a mediocre undergrad, but I worked extremely hard. I got nearly a 4.0, did research, did an honors thesis, etc. Now I'm at a top 10 university in the world for a PhD.

I'm not saying you are, but don't be one of those "I'm smart, just lazy" kinds of people. Being lazy is not smart, and if you don't accomplish anything nobody gives a shit about how smart you are in the first place.

I keep my harvard/oxford alumni cards in my wallet for this very reason kek

Creating a piece of software that has earned me millions.

Before that it was getting a perfect 100% score on my statistical mechanics course in uni. It may sound like a weird thing to be that proud of but it was the first course in school/uni that I actually had to work my ass off to understand, so I felt pretty good about it.

I'm only 23 though so I hope there's more in store for me.

Finally understanding what dy/dx means

Please give pointers for asking professors for research work.

What were the applications for the software?

When I was a sophomore, I looked on the list of professors in my department, and I found professors that did research I was interested in. I either asked in person or emailed them asking if I could learn more about their research (i.e., can I join your lab), and we set up a meeting. I tried and failed to understand their papers, but even making attempt is more than most undergrads. I got a bachelor's in chemical engineering for reference.

My experience has always been that professors are too busy / already handling too many projects to find space to fit you in. So I guess - what was your rejection rate?

I was lucky in that one of the professors I asked (who I worked for 2 and a half years under) was currently teaching a class I was in. I got nearly 100% on the first test, so he knew I wasn't an idiot which helped. To answer your question though, I asked 2 people and I was unofficially accepted to both labs. They both had group meetings every week, and I sat in on them, eventually deciding to pick one of them.

I personally have not done this, but I know a few of my friends talked to grad student TAs and asked to help them out with research. It can't hurt to just keep asking different professors though. The worst thing they're gonna do is say no or ghost you.

I solved the problem of how to unify the disparate mathematical frameworks of the theories of quanta and gravitation. I recently wrote a book about it, please have a look:

The General Relevance of the Modified Cosmological Model
>vixra.org/abs/1712.0598

Also, I disproved the Riemann hypothesis
>vixra.org/abs/1703.0073

Taking this picture with my phone because I didnt know how to screenshot was quite the accomplishment.

The mathematica software package comes with some encyclopaedic data that you can query. If you ask Wolfram's Mathematica how many countries there are in the world it will say that there are 230 of them, and it can list the all.

What said. Please don't let your greatest accomplishment be mental stamp collecting.

Got 2nd place in a nation-wide logic test in my age group

Believe it or not, taking pictures of the screen makes the image more trustworthy because it is almost impossible to convincingly photoshop with the pixel patterns there.

no it isn't, you could just photoshop it and then take a picture of the screen

>tfw too dumb to understand these posts

There's no reason to believe it is fake to begin with, though

If a computer can complete your greatest achievement in half a second, it is not very meaningful.

2 in oceanography, with another submitted. 2nd year PhD

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I believe in you user, you can go on to do great things if you just apply yourself. Don't let your past dictate your future.

congrats dude thats sick! siebel is a legend. whats your field of research in cs?

Who needs photoshop when you can edit things directly in the browser?

You should seek help

Not that important since I'm just a freshman in college, but getting a 1510 on the SAT. I know for some this is the bare minimum, or for some it's common, but I had struggled in high school the first few years because of family and personal problems. Teachers and counselors would tell me to take the remedial classes because they thought I couldn't do well in the honors or regular classes. Studied my ass off for the SAT. I had nothing to study from other than khan academy and torrented practice tests. Did better than all the kids who had money to afford tutors and classes, or the perfect gpa kids who had to retake it multiple times just to scrape past a 1400. Even though I'm going to some regular state school while some of these kids are going to higher end universities, makes me kinda happy to know that if I wasn't such a fuck up in high school I could have been something special like some of them.

But like I said, it's special to me because of what people have told me over the years and the shit that I went through. It's kinda neat to know that my score is the average for some Ivy League schools. Makes me feel like I'm not some dumbass like I was told to believe.

I have no doubt in my mind that Khan Academy is better than most regular classes for learning certain topics. I just wish they had the kind of exercises they have for math for other subjects too.

I'm actually in Bioengineering, not CS

"invented" counting sort in Pascal when i was like 14
still proud of it
i dont program anymore and mostly just play gaymes
i might become a brainlet later on

I discovered the integral test for series convergence. Felt really pround, until I reached the next chapter in the book and found it there.

what's wrong with corndog?

Silver in my country's physics olympiad

Achieved Diamond I rank in League of Legends.