Impressive sounding things about you that aren’t actually impressive

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Anonymous wrote:I have 40-50 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals.

Niche field, 22 years in my career, nowhere near as many papers as my more accomplished colleagues, and I’m in the middle of the author list on probably half of them.

I have 20-30 peer-reviewed publications in a niche field too. I suppose I'm nationally known among a really, really tiny group of experts, and I'm nowhere near the top of that pile.

I’m at over 100 peer-reviewed publications plus a couple of books and I don’t think I’m all that well regarded a researcher.

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All state runner (but for a relay).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can run a 19 minute 5K and a 5:30 mile in my 30s

I speak five languages and one of them is a really obscure language

I’m skinny and I eat a lot of pizza and beer

I’m impressed!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My PHD dissertation was on the half life of charmed particles.

Omg I would love to hear about that. - NASA PP

We smashed proton beams against a fixed target made of diamond, which created short lived particles (charmed quarks and lighter quarks for that experiment, to be specific). We had a basketball sized room with arrays of detectors recording the various particles resulting from the decay of the short lived particles, including muons (I built and took care of the muon wall LOL). We reconstructed the vertices of the decays, filtered the charmed quarks out. I measured its lifetime based on the decay vertices. It was an experiment involving more than a hundred people and I was just a graduate student in that group.

As far as high energy physics goes, that was a tiny experiment. The ones you hear on the news are all huge colliding experiments (proton beam smashes against proton beam for higher energy to generate even heavier quarks, Higgs bosons... ), involving 500+ people.

Thanks for asking. It was fun to remember. I am just a middle aged mom working on computer now.

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I was the first employee for two presidential campaigns.

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I can wiggle each butt cheek independently

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Anonymous wrote:I work for NASA. 12 year old me would be over the moon. Adult me is rueing a passion career choice when tech was obv in reach.

I literally just checked the time stamp to see if I wrote that recently and just forgot.
Yup. Work for NASA. 12 year old me would be in absolute awe.
It's fine.

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Anonymous wrote:I can wiggle each butt cheek independently

That is impressive!

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I am literally a brain surgeon.

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I'm a pretty frumpy mundane working mom, but I provide a service that draws a lot of celeb and high profile clients.

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magnet programs, 4.8/1590, nms scholars, merit scholarship in college, T15, dual stem majors, impressive ECs, impressive internships, trilingual, FAANG careers....

not impressive because everyone in our circle has the same kind of accomplishments. its a function of nature and nurture.

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Public education in McLean. The bulls*it is impressive.

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I'm a descendant of a royal family from a country where the monarchy ended over 100 years ago so lineage only exists on paper.

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Anonymous wrote:I can wiggle each butt cheek independently

I can flare my nostrils

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:magnet programs, 4.8/1590, nms scholars, merit scholarship in college, T15, dual stem majors, impressive ECs, impressive internships, trilingual, FAANG careers....

not impressive because everyone in our circle has the same kind of accomplishments. its a function of nature and nurture.

Injun?