Stuff you have done (that most people haven' t)

[Angrboda]

I was part of a pilot program for gifted math children in my state. There were two groups, 20 each, selected from the top 500 in each half of the state. I had to talk my math teacher into submitting my name, as I didn't actually have the grades they were recommending as criteria for submission by teachers. And I didn't take the test at all seriously, as I was giggling, and whispering jokes about the test to my classmates at my table. We got a 20-minute lecture about that between the two halves of the test thanks to my behavior. In hindsight, that probably helped, as anxiety will often hinder performance, and my attitude left me very open to considering the questions in ways that I might not have if I had gone in with a serious attitude. Anyway, when I got the letter, everybody demanded to see it. I wasn't exactly known as the brains type in school, preferring a more dirt bag style existence.