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Shameless Braggery! A thread on individual achievement.
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This is a thread where you get to brag about cases of individual achievement, i.e. things you did - accomplished is the right word perhaps - that you were really proud of. Achievements that caused your self-esteem to skyrocket. Deeds that made you feel awesome.
It can be anything. Absolutely anything! Landing that awesome job, or a date with that amazing girl, getting into college, earning a medal. Or simply things you did that made other people go, "holy shit that's awesome!"
Like waffles.
But not quite!
Finally, the thread you have been waiting for where you can throw away your Sword of Modesty and replace it with the Holy Bragger +5! Reveal to the readers of D&D your true charisma score.
FOCUS: Share cases of individual achievement, where you accomplished something after working hard for it and it made you feel great about yourself.
It can be anything. Absolutely anything! Landing that awesome job, or a date with that amazing girl, getting into college, earning a medal. Or simply things you did that made other people go, "holy shit that's awesome!"
Like waffles.
But not quite!
Finally, the thread you have been waiting for where you can throw away your Sword of Modesty and replace it with the Holy Bragger +5! Reveal to the readers of D&D your true charisma score.
FOCUS: Share cases of individual achievement, where you accomplished something after working hard for it and it made you feel great about yourself.
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Dammit, ege. Now I really want to have waffles.
Belgian Waffles.
My greatest achievement is sentimental really... I got an internship at a place that rocks. I don't really think awards are personally relevant to me, so I'm not a huge fan of flipping out about then. My soon-to-be achievement (hopefully) is graduating from college. Oh, and surviving long enough to be a senior on a Div 1 varsity athletics team.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
I'm actually waiting for the other shoe to drop. Life can't be this easy, can it?
I've accomplished being lazy and having it work out by dumb luck (some connections and bullshitting).
I don't, however, have any waffles.
In the 7th grade.
Well, this gave me a headache as I was trying to solve it, though he'd said that the O(n^2) version was similar to a problem that we had just been working on. Eventually I got something that appeared to work and submitted it, hoping it was right. When we got the assignment back, he announced that someone had figured out the O(n*log(n)) solution, and, since this is a thread about braggery, it obviously turned out to be me, which made me very happy for a while!
...
I feel like such a horrific geek now.
I'll be fine, just give me a minute, a man's got a limit, I can't get a life if my heart's not in it.
Shit, I should go edit my resume.
I got a 1440, prior to the long string of wussifications. In today's numbers, it would be about a 2250.
I missed one question on the math section. The sucky thing is that I realized it about 30 seconds after handing it in. I asked if I could change one little thing, and they sort of glared at me.
Teaching myself Spanish.
Getting published.
Also, she wrote her name today for the first time.
Perfect 36s in Reading and Writing, too.
And 299 on the PSAT, which was the highest in my high school.
Only got a 1290 on the SAT, though.
With her mind.
I am so glad I never wasted my time with those SAT prep sessions and SAT test books.
So glad.
The scores I got were so random it was not even worth studying specific material. Just let me know how the test is laid out and how much I get penalized for guessing.
The odd thing is how some schools base most of their acceptance off SAT scores and some schools could care two shits about them. And if you must know, I got a 1340 on the SAT and 31 on ACT. Why did I take both? Because I'm a tool.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
That reminds me. I have to beg my college for money and say... "Look. See my scores? You have to give me money!"
They also didn't believe me when I told them my scores.
They were like " Why are you going to a community college? :x "
That is indeed awesome.
Me too. were you perchance in the Midwest talent search?
Its funny too because I got the same score as my sister got 2 times even though she some classes and was in high school when she took it. The thing is she usually gets better grades than me too. Although, I am incredibly lazy. Unfortunately, I only got a crappy 28 when I took it in high school.
Also, proving myself better than my programming teacher, by writing a much more efficient code that she didn't understand and had to explain to her. Also everyone went to me when they had programming questions, but that was annoying too.
Which is odd, because it feels like I fell back in time about 4 years. Law school feels like high school except with much more reading and everyone more or less lives in the library. Seriously! We even get lockers and most people bring their lunch and there's a "cafe" that's really more of a cafeteria and you're stuck in the same classes with the same hundred people.
I can brag about that... right?
'Course I stopped taking programming after that, but it felt damn good at the time.
"Telekinesis" is a better first word. ;-) (My dad like Ultima, I caught on fast)
Yet I smile every so often.
Then I won a mars bar in another drawing competition in year 7 sciece class (design a functional monster)
I rode for a kilometer no handed on a busy, hilly footpath, only stopping because I had to cross a road (4 lane highway).
I taught my dog how to sit when my mother failed. Now she sits every time and is perfect at it. I thought that was pretty cool.
I also had some architecture students grab my design assignment and start yelling about how awesome my design was.
Everyone dislikes me at school, so it's a pretty big thing for me to be complemented
It would be kinda weird if you actually did start bragging about that though.
I tend to always think I suck so this was a nice change of events.
A year well spent.
On saturday I leave for london for an all-expenses paid training session at their headquarters, with a week's stop in Bulgaria just for good measure.
Then when I get back I will make more money than I've ever made in my life, while working (as of March) not three blocks from my house.
Oh, and my cock can sing the national anthem. It's a great party trick.
I went to a camp with a group of newly reaquainted freinds.
Little did I know it involved 4 hours of praying a day.
I soon learnt how to do arm farts and finger snapping, I can only do it with one hand though.