User:Samlan16

Samlan16 is a former student at Fulton Science Academy and a current student at Milton High School in Georgia. In the past, she has mainly had a focus in chemistry and physics events but has also done Write It Do It, Experimental Design, Disease Detectives, and several building events. Over her career, Samlan16 has accumulated more bronze medals and 5th place ribbons than all her silver and gold medals combined. How depressing.

In 8th grade, Samlan16 was a representative for FSA at the 2012 National Tournament. As a sophomore, she was appointed vice captain of inquiry events at Milton. She still considers her best Science Olympiad moment to be winning 6th place in Food Science at Nationals like a boss. In 2015, Samlan16 hopes to become captain of her team and participate in Forensics, Experimental Design, WIDI, Chem Lab, and Compound Machines. She will also be coaching Crime Busters and Can't Judge a Powder at FSA. Her current goal is to win gold and silver medals across the board at one tournament before she graduates.

=Rankings=

2014
=About Me= I am a nerd.

Extracurriculars
I am on math team and academic bowl, but I do not perform nearly as well there as in SO. I am also in Beta, Soceidad Honoraria Hispanica, and Mu Alpha Theta. Next year, I will be joining NSHS and NHS. In middle school, I was a bit more active, so I was in journalism club, crochet club, and Turkish club (because who can't pass on free baklava and Turkish delight?). I also like studying particle physics on my own because I'm awesome like that.

College/ Career Aspirations
I am currently considering applying to Emory, Georgia Tech, William & Mary, Rensselaer, and possibly Oxford (though I am quite certain that I will be rejected) for my undergraduate degree, which will be a dual major in chemistry and physics (or only one of the two if I go to Oxford). Should I go to Oxford, I will not have to change schools for my master's degree; otherwise, I will go to any of the other listed schools for grad school and apply to Oxford for my PhD. I am expecting to get my graduate degrees in either analytical chemistry or particle physics, but things may change by then...

College/ Career Aspirations: Common Core Edition
(I promise, this is a joke/ rant about how politicians are screwing with my chances of going to a Russell Group school. Who actually thinks like this?)

Obviously, there is no such thing as a practical application of physics, math, or chemistry. Who would think of such heresy? I want to be an electrical engineer because that is what pathway my school put me on, and they are always right! Plus, that is obviously the only kind of engineer that exists. And anyway, screw personality or IQs above 120! I will get at least 50% growth on every test I take so my teachers don't get fired and they don't hate me. Then, with my superior knowledge of each and every standard in the 45 pages at the front of my literature textbook as well as how to properly answer every kind of SAT, PARCC, and SLO question, I will be so college and career ready that I will rule the world!!! Standard 9.81.2!!!

Anyway, I will only apply to the 81 colleges that both my school and the College Board recommend because their computers know waaay more about me than myself. Who can trust a punk 16 year old who doesn't even play a sport?! How counterculture! I don't even know where Hanover is (Iowa, maybe?), but I keep getting emails from them, so that must be where I have to go. In fact, when the time comes to choose where I will enroll, I will have my counselor pick randomly out of a hat so I am not misguided. I am sooo ready to be an adult, right?