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Traveling so much, and spending a lot of time reading, for years Jake saw himself as a "shy, nerdy kid," ostracized by others. He delved heavily into reading history, and science fiction.

Then one book in particular — "Ender's Game," by Orson Scott Card — rallied him. It's about a shy, ostracized kid, who went on to save the world.

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Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
 
That was a pretty neat article. I wonder if he's tried his hand at war games ...
 

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Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
 
He's not the only kid this year to do that

but hey - they are both named Jake (or at least similar to the name Jake).

Hey Noemon.................


 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Very cool.

Hey, imogen -- here's "ace a test" in context.
 

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Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
 

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It's about a shy, ostracized kid, who went on to save the world.

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Originally posted by Farmgirl:
He's not the only kid this year to do that

but hey - they are both named Jake (or at least similar to the name Jake).

Hey Noemon.................

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Nope, didn't take any standardized tests this year. Sounds like it'd've been a good year to have done so, though.

Back in high school my brother either aced both or very nearly did; does that count?
 

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Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
 
That darn dictionary stuff always got me. You know, that part where you have to know what words mean. That's hard!
 

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Posted by Avadaru (Member # 3026) on :
 
A guy in my graduating class also did this, but it only made the local news. He was kind of a genius, really talented, and everyone was always talking about what a promising future he had. He got offers from tons of colleges and was basically the school's golden child, yadayadayada. Then he got married at 18 to his Scientologist girlfriend and moved to Cincinatti to work for the Church of Scientology. The last time I heard about him he was passing out fliers at a local mall. (No offense to Scientologists out there. It's just frustrating to me that someone with so much potential will never fully reach it. Though I guess to him he's doing what's most important. Oh well.)
 

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Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
You mean like Jake Lloyd, the kid who's going to play Ender?
 

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Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
 
See, all this excitement over perfect scores on both tests is why I was disappointed in my 35 on my ACT. Still, at least it's better than a 35 on the SAT...

--Enigmatic
 

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Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
 
If you had done better, E, maybe you could have played Ender.

How many people take both tests? I imagine that would cut the number down more than people acing one not being able to ace the other.
 

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Posted by Soara (Member # 6729) on :
 
A very shallow description of Ender's Game, but still touching -- especially since those were the reporter's words, and I'm sure the actual kid doesn't think of Ender's Game like that.
 

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Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
 
Soara,

Who knows. I thought it was a story of a shy, ostracized kid who commits an unnecessary genocide. Saying Ender saved the world is more dubious than saying that Bush saved us from Saddam's large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
 

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Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
 

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It's about a shy, ostracized kid, who went on to save the world.

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Is that the same book I read?

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