Genius stuck in France

Laterally Speaking · 2007-06-01 06:51:29

My classes for this year were English, Spanish, French, Math, History, Geography, Civics, Physics, Chemistry, Technology, Art, Latin, Biology, Geology, and Sports. The days here start at 8:30AM and end at 5:00PM. There is , luckily, a lunch break from 12:30 to 2:00. Each class lasts about 1 hour, so it's 7 hours of class a day.

I'm pretty sure that if I listed everything I like, it would take several hours to write them out, so I'll keep it relatively short. I like Programming in VB 5, 3D modeling, sliding down the nearby 60-degree slope with friends, solving logic puzzles, coming up with codes (often combined with the programming), writing various forms of music, quantum physics, chemistry, and, of course, math...

Devantè · 2007-06-01 07:31:25

Interesting ... so you're a musician? I'd like to see/hear some of your compositions and your work!

What grade/year are you in?

Interesting ... Latin. Nice lunch break by the way.

Oh, and I almost forgot. Welcome to Maths Is Fun, Laterally Speaking.

As you may have noticed, I am famous for my postcount ... that's right, I have the most posts on this forum!

Laterally Speaking · 2007-06-01 08:24:49

Fine, I admit that the word "Genius" is pretty strong, but do you know any other 13-year-olds who understand the Uncertainty Principle, RSA, and organic chemistry?

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Laterally Speaking · 2007-06-01 08:37:18

Yes, I noticed.

I'm not sure how I could share my compositions, so I'm welcome to suggestions for that.

Over here, they call the grade "quatrieme" (fourth), but it's equivalent to eighth grade in the US. The grades are numbered oddly: CP: first; CE1: second; CE2: third; CM1: fourth; CM2: fifth; sixieme: sixth; cinquieme: seventh; quatrieme: eighth; troisieme: ninth; seconde: tenth; premiere: eleventh; terminale: twelfth. The classes are grouped in the following way: [CP, CE1, CE2], [CM1, CM2], [sixieme, cinquieme, quatrieme, troisieme], [seconde, premiere, terminale]. If you think this is crazy, try putting the words of the above group (sixieme, cinquieme, quatrieme, troisieme) into a French-to-English translator!

Laterally Speaking · 2007-06-01 08:46:19

I have probably got the weirdest family around: at the family reunion last summer, the head count on my mother's side was estimated at around 100, many people not having been able to come. Most of the people in that family are named John, and have the "family sense of humor", as well as a tendency to be pyromaniacs (the event started with our 3rd of July fireworks display, launched from copper tubes and lit by the youngest, and ended with a gigantic kerosene-fueled fire that no one could get within 10 feet of). My dad's side is somewhat saner, but both families seem to have started in the same area, Northern Europe, then Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Well, enough about me, somebody tell me about themselves here. Please, I'm tired of talking to myself.

Devantè · 2007-06-01 09:38:14

You're 13 and you study those subjects?

Lucky you ...

But doesn't that seem odd, considering that in the UK most people don't learn a few of those subjects until A-Level?

Laterally Speaking · 2007-06-01 09:59:50

I study stuff like quantum physics, organic chemistry, and cryptography in my spare time (which may not seem like much, but we also get Wednesday afternoons off), so I'm not surprised that I'm the only one in the general area...

I recently possibly entered history by being the first American kid to win a French poem contest. the teachers are going to (apparently) publish the poem in the local newspaper. For someone like me, who doesn't like too much direct attention all the time, this could be not all good... Oh well.

Devantè · 2007-06-01 10:32:20

Interesting ... you seem to be very talented and gifted. Good luck with learning those things, remember not to give up.

What instruments do you play?

I play guitar (all styles), cello, some flute, keyboard, some piano, some drums in spare time, bass, harmonica, percussion instrumentals, etc...

Do you want to buy our CD ... when it gets 'fully' published?

MathsIsFun · 2007-06-01 11:57:58

Laterally Speaking wrote:

Most of the people in that family are named John, and have the "family sense of humor"

And what (dare I ask) is that "family sense of humor" ... ?

Laterally Speaking · 2007-06-01 22:09:40

The sense of humor is hard to describe, but one of the many philosophies is "if it isn't funny the first time, do it again and again until it is". We love playing practical jokes, but puns (or word play) are just as good (or is it bad).

I play guitar, too, as well as piano, and percussion. I write most of my music with a program that lets me hear all the instruments (with the effects that I choose) as I write the notes in. I recently wrote an interesting song for instruments such as piano, electric guitar, synth strings, electric bass, and a large percussion section.

The offer sounds temping, by the way.

Devantè · 2007-06-02 04:19:45

What offer?

Laterally Speaking · 2007-06-03 00:48:11

Devantè wrote:

Do you want to buy our CD ... when it gets 'fully' published?

That offer.

Devantè · 2007-06-03 06:06:29

Oh, sure. What should the price be, I wonder? I hope my percentage of all profit is quite large.

The CD is based around Rock music ...

John E. Franklin · 2007-06-03 16:29:30

I play clarinet!! And I make noise on a violin, playing totally incorrectly, however, because I prefer the higher notes to come toward me and my index finger, like on a clarinet, so I play the violin with my hands straight, not bent around in the normal fashion. But then I have to hold the instrument between my chin and knees which have to be level, on a comfortable couch with feet on a foot stool.

Laterally Speaking · 2007-06-04 06:36:55

OK, then. At least I'm not the only one who doesn't like playing an instrument properly...

Devantè · 2007-06-04 07:12:06

So ... what kind of 'level' are you at with guitar? How long have you been playing?

I have been playing for a very long time ... started very young.

Laterally Speaking · 2007-06-05 03:28:22

I've only been playing for a year or so. I can't really say I'm great, but I've heard worse...

Devantè · 2007-06-05 06:01:30

Any recordings of you playing? Perhaps something you can play very well?

Laterally Speaking · 2007-06-11 03:50:47

Not really.

I do have the songs that I wrote, which I can convert to mp3s pretty easily. I wrote everything from classical music (I don't think it sounds great) to scores for a MMORPG that "we" are working on. The latter are songs in which the most prominent instruments are the electric guitar, the piano, some synth strings, and a rather large percussion section.

Devantè · 2007-06-11 05:53:37

Well, if you would like to share that in the file extension/program format it is currently in (or if your preference is an MP3/Music [ player ] format), then feel free to do so in this thread.

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lottie9394 · 2007-06-12 06:45:16

hi nice too meet u i am also 13 and a total boff so maybe u could teach me some of those subjects

Laterally Speaking · 2007-06-12 22:18:07

Sure thing, or is it?

The upload speed of my connection over here is unbelievably slow, somewhere around 4 KB/s. This pretty much limits my ability to share things via the Net.

Devantè · 2007-06-13 07:39:06

Well, music tablature (program-designed or not) is surely not that bit at all. It would [ at least ] take a minimum of a few seconds.

But referring to larger files? An obstacle.

Laterally Speaking · 2007-06-13 09:31:15

Like I said, it LIMITS my potential. Anyway, there's something new over on the other part. I gotta get to bed now... it's 11:30 PM and I've got class tomorrow from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.

Laterally Speaking · 2007-06-15 04:17:53

I've got 1 week of actual class left over here. The "official" last day is July 7th, but that last week is basically just fun and games. As for the two weeks between next Friday and the beginning of the week of the 7th, the 9th-graders (troisiemes) are doing a big exam, so all the teachers are going to be very busy, so the rest of us get two extra weeks off.

Today was a really good day for me, in a lot of ways; I got some good scores, made a couple of new friends, and a few more personal things went well.

I guess there isn't much to say right now, but my next post might just be in French.

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