If you went back to age 3 with your current knowledge I'm pretty sure you'd get into Harvard by 12 if you wanted. I'd probably just go to 1998 - I was 18 then

Not just about the money. You would destroy all kids at all levels at nearly everything requiring thought. If I had my head now in my 8 year old body, I'd kick so much ass at sports.

30? Man life is over for you.

True story: tonight our "moderator" terp spoiled 127 Hours for me by nonchalantly saying

i'd go back to like 7ish - 1997.
convince my parents to buy gold, destroy the poker boom, and dominate sports, boom.

This always blows my mind. Apple since I graduated from high school:



$1000 investment in 2003 = $45579.27 today.

127 hours was awesome

brutal though

i want to check that movie out...that guy is pretty much the definition of a man's man...badass mofo.

friend getting married at a courthouse today. very weird.

also, i had another part to that question (going back in time)-

if you go back to say...age 3 or whatever with whatever knowledge you have now, do you think you'd be a 'genius', perse? obviously at your age you'd be a super genius...but i think as years went on, your upside wouldn't be nearly as high.

i believe that while you will (obviously) be smarter than you would have been normally (since you have an extra 10 years or w/e to add on to what you already know), you still wouldn't be like...super genius (good will hunting style). you'd probably just revert back to the mean at x age.

i feel like some of those super geniuses you see on tv...those people are a combination of genetic/environmental freaks that we couldn't reach, no matter how large of a headstart we have.

options would require more detailed memory about the timings of swings and would be more effort, as opposed to "buy Amazon in 1997, wait for 1999, get rich"

You could obviously be a "genius" through your ability to "invent" things.

I mean, 'simple' ideas like "Selling books on the internet" can be regarded as genius in hindsight.

I guess you'd be more likely to be considered 'visionary' than 'genius'

spent 23 of the last 24 hours in bed. drunk + girl + hungover. finally got SC2 workin though.

kitten ridin' drrrty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK_CKtYCRIc

Think how awful this would be just knowing you have nothing to do till high speed internet is available

I guess getting rich would be a nice consolation

ghjkgdghdsfhds

over the past year, ive hooked up a couple times wiht this girl a year above me. tonight, we go back to her place and make out and do some other stuff for a while then i tell her to meet me at my place in 10 mins (bc my friend is picking me up to go home for tgiving break at 10am) and i quickly pack and get ready to do stuff with her. she lives a 30 second walk from me in the same apt complex. 5 mins later, i walk back to her palce and shes in her bed passed the f out. this feels way worse than going home alone bc i was guaranteed sex and now im posting on 2p2 bc shes ****ing tired

but on the bright side, im about to spend a week at home/in nyc for the first time since april

sweet ofish, i live in new jersey, enjoy home.

i'm studying for another organic chem test right now, its on sunday, i studied earlier but then got massively side tracked because its friday night, although i stayed in. trying to focus now and get some more done before i go to sleep, because if i go to sleep now ill be nervous tomorrow and procrastinate, yet if i get this done before i sleep then i think i'll force myself to do it, as long as i don't get too tired. then, i will have less to do tomorrow, and it's easier to study when you are more confident i think.

with that said, i am very bored, since i want to take another break, but i can't do anything that would take too long

Just spent the last few hours changing a brakeline in a cramped garage.

Pray that you never have to do that.

Medical school = serious business

korean bbq from 2-7AM, fml, I feel like a brick

hey man, i got a 60% on my cardio exam, i deserved a night off!!

i was gettin 80s on the cardio usmleworld tests though... damn inhouse exams

certainly very early in life because it would give me more time to target my learning and studying towards career paths i could predict with great certainty would be highly profitable when i go to be an adult. but too young would make for several really unpleasant years.

this boils down to what you've learned from your life experiences and what changes you would make. i think most of us would probably say some version of "i wish i devoted more of my time to productive activities. (be they learning, exercise or sports and games i was good at/liked). i wish i had avoided some major embarrassing decisions. i wish i went after more (and better) girls. i wish i had been a better person to those around me."

you can nearly maximize your ability to follow these goals by starting in pre adolescence and the ROI on the extra years between, say, 3 and 7, seems negligible.

you'd want to be young enough that you could still guarantee you got into the top local high school since that's the best chance of getting into a top college, and that's the best chance to ship jobs with awesome highly scalable income (assuming there is a meritocratic selection system in place for some sort of local magnet school) but much younger than that would be a total waste because your peer group would bore you and it would be several years of unpleasant social isolation. think about it, would your 18 year old self hang out and drink with an 7 year old because he had the brain of an intelligent 22 year old? so id guess something around 10 or 11 years old.

the biggest advantage is that you would be a millionaire from the old fishy games

however i guess it wouldn't be legal to play though lol

At a wedding tonight, and there are hardly any girls. I run so f bad.

So what is SSNL asking for Christmas?

i usually ask for books or movies or something.