[MrRubix]

no never did the putnam, but it's pretty hardcore. in all honesty it'd probably grill me in the long run -- you have to literally live and breathe math to compete against the kind of people who compete in it seriously. i'm still able to do a lot of the crap they shell out in the aime/amc/usamo, but meh.

btw what's so funny about that paragraph? there's nothing really all that hilarious there -- it's just a list of people.

standardized testing is pretty useless in terms of college preparation though, i'd agree.