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randomly remembered how I spent ages 14-16 trying to come up with a good Google Science Fair project, couldn't think of anything, eventually became convinced that I'm a complete idiot, and years later learned that all the winners had university professors "helping" with projects
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the contrast between my ideas and what I saw the winners doing also probably contributed to my years-long depression in high school. could not have imagined that it was all fake. oh, my sweet-sweet childhood
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The same thing happened to me in my high school science fair. I did a rinky-dink project on gears and gear ratios (using Legos). I went to the county level and saw all these kids doing actual scientific research using actual scientific equipment and it was devastating.
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