OT: Your greatest accomplishment
Okay, saw this thread idea on another site and thought it was worth copying since there are a lot of interesting people on this board. What is your greatest or most interesting accomplishment? Looking for specific interesting things, not generic sappy things. Here is your chance to brag without bragging (since you were asked).
Answers of the acceptable type: Held future NBA Player X to 5 points in a high school basketball game; Started and sold a business for $XXX; Rescued your brother from drowning in an icy pond; Did wonderful humanitarian thing that helped people; achieved life/career dream despite hard upbringing
Answers of the unacceptable type: Marrying spouse (unless said spouse was famous); being a good parent; etc
Answers of the acceptable type: Held future NBA Player X to 5 points in a high school basketball game; Started and sold a business for $XXX; Rescued your brother from drowning in an icy pond; Did wonderful humanitarian thing that helped people; achieved life/career dream despite hard upbringing
Pretty darn forward way of saying most of us haven't accomplished anything.
I proved a math conjecture that stood for 200 years.
Is a math conjecture basically a theory that's unproven? And you showed why it was true?
Yep. It’s a statement that appears correct but hasn’t yet been proven so.
Fermat’s Last Theorem and the Poincare Conjecture are the two most famous (now proven) conjectures.
P=NP is the new big one.
Found the math nerd!
Wait. This is a Michigan blog, there'll be lots of those here...
I was trying to be modest, but now that you mention it I also have a huge penis, a lush head of hair, and I'm rich.
I only have a huge penis, the other 2 not so much :(
Found your wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Conrad
Or is it this one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Diamond
WHICH ONE ARE YOU!!??!?!
Neither. Those guys are old farts.
Eclipsing 100,000 mgopoints
You've been here long enough my friend... you know the rules... do this for 2 minutes straight to atone for your sin.
During the last three years I won Michigan Science Teacher of the Year, wrote a book, and am currently one of three finalists for the Presidential Award (PAEMST).
That's pretty dang impressive. Top tip for being good teacher?
Right now I'm getting a lot better by learning about cognitive science and how brains work. But the best thing I did was doing a weekly evaluation reflection for the past 5 years or so. Some teachers underestimate how much content they should know and many that know a lot of content focus too hard on teaching instead of learning.
Why dont you explain how cognitive dissonance works to all of us
Yea, but what else have you done?
Getting into and graduating from the best university in the world. Go Blue. Proud alum.
Pinning Mr. Perfect to win the Intercontinental Championship
My two sons, both of whom are Michigan alums with graduate degrees in engineering and both are physicians. One is an ER doc in the middle of COVID-19.
So your biggest accomplishment is banging their mom?
...or banging their dad, if you happen to be their mom.
Indeed!!
That, and the next 20 or 25 years.
I have 8 patents. They're going to put that on my tombstone.
Awesome. In what field?
Semiconductor devices
Congrats! 1 granted, 5 pending at the moment.
Basketball - 1a. Beat Rick Mount in H-O-R-S-E and a 3-point shootout.
1b. Won Gus Macker championship against a team with Chris Thomas (Indiana's Mr. Basketball) and Jared Jeffries.
Life - Went from a convicted felon in my early 20s (drug dealer) to a successful business professional now.
A fellow Hoosier here. Rick was an elite shooter-best I ever saw live. But come clean-you did it last year...when he was 72 years old. Even then you played 10 games and beat him by an "E" one time.
I beat him when I was a sophomore in high school. It was 1999 and it took me one try because that's all you got at the camp.
life is indeed a story of redemption. congrats.
I found my ass without a map and a flashlight.
May not sound like much, but it would shock the hell out of my late father, who frequently told me that I couldn't.
Overcoming some personal obstacles to help lead the 2006 American team to Gold Medal at the 2006 Beerfest in Germany.
Looking good you handsome motherfucker.
I am sorry to hear about landfill. RIP
You still shitting pancakes?
I will never play ping pong in Ding Dang because of you.
My buddy and I were hanging out at the neighborhood pool one afternoon in high school. Heard screaming/whining for about 30 seconds. Long story short, we look to see a kid (5y/o) is hanging out of a 3rd story window of his house. We ran over to the house and rang the doorbell, no answer. I found an open garage window and was able to run up into the house and find the room. I pulled the kid up, closed the window, and told him to stay inside. As I'm walking down the stairs, leaving the house, the nanny says, "Who are you? What are you doing here!?" I didn't answer.
Got a call from the mom later thanking me, no reward. Nanny was fired.
Cool story, bro.
I could probably talk about things that happened in sports playing HS & college baseball or weight lifting and physique stuff, but I don't think they are what I'm most proud of. When I was 28 years old I decided I was completely unsatisfied with my career and went back to school full time for a second bachelor's degree and a subsequent master's degree. I earned numerous awards and recognition and was summa cum laude in my undergrad and got a perfect 4.0 in my master's program in exercise science while working with a number of really great college S&C coaches including current Minnesota football S&C head coach Dan Nichol and got to work with a number of now or former NFL and pro hockey players. Going back to school full time was a major undergoing, but the results and work I put in were very gratifying.
That's a great story. I love to hear when people are willing to put themselves on a limb because they want something better.
I know a guy who was quite smart and wasting his time in a stuffy/unfulfilling corporate job (making probably $160k/yr) and quit it to go back to medical school when he was late 30s. Was married with kids but wanted to pursue his dream. He did it and is now much happier.
I made a hole in one on a Par 4 at TPC Sugarloaf (Hole 4 of Meadows for those who have played) in Georgia during my Sophomore year of college a few years back. I also held Xavier Tillman to 8 points and scored 12 points on him in a high school summer league game a few years back. He was a sophomore and I was a senior but still!
I was the first one out of my group of friends to have his ass licked. She was a stripper in Canada. I will never forget you Mints!
Mints the Stripper: Building memories that will last a lifetime
Mints is the name of the strip club. Candy was the stripper’s name. Man I wish I was 19 again.
Winner of the thread.
Nuts to these rules. Marrying my wife and having/raising my children is the mountaintop. Everything else is just molehills.
I totally agree
my super bowl moment was the birth of my first child
You finding a woman to marry IS a huge accomplishment.
I graduated with engineering degree from Michigan then led paratroopers in Army
The above 2 items on my resume led to a lot of opportunities, including:
Helped build the International Space Station
Ended up in biotech and we are working on a personal cancer vaccine
Now helping with emergency tech transfer for a drug that helps stop pneumonia. We plan start actually making it in 2 weeks.
Finally, since I am bragging so much, I also successfully removed my mattress tags without paying any federal consequences
Gonna stick to sports here..... Struck out 19 batters in a 6 inning HS baseball game. One reached on a 3rd strike passed ball so yes it's possible. The game ended after 6 innings due to darkness.
Sorry, but few people contribute anything to the world that comes close to the contribution of rearing children.