Sean Wrona:  

I was born in Virginia but moved to North Syracuse when I was one. My parents divorced when I was six, and I predominantly lived with my mother, who has multiple sclerosis. Given that, I seldom had any social interaction, instead developing mad math and computer skills that typecast me for life. Hence, I was the district spelling bee champion, the two-time math league champion, and the co-editor-in-chief for Horizons Literary Magazine, probably simply because I had no life and nothing better to do. I was probably most famous for answering math problems for people in the high school halls, running in the halls, and exceedingly fast typing (I type over 150 wpm). In my spare time, I compiled all sorts of data and statistics on things of seldom worthwhile value. I was the statistician for the Mensa Scrabble-by-Mail SIG in high school and wrote a twenty-page column every other month (despite being 30 years or so younger than just about everyone else in the group) but I hardly told anyone this. After people pushed me into the class nerd slot, a position I admit I courted rather too much, it started to annoy me how much people overrated me and thought my basic knowledge made me some sort of genius. I went to Cornell dreaming that it would be some sort of intellectual beacon before being brought to my senses and realizing that it was about 80% preppie. I was pretty much ignored by those people, becoming an even bigger loser than I e...Expand for more