Happy New Year From Brilliant

This post originally appeared on the Brilliant blog on 12/30/2012.

All of you who have waited patiently to receive a lanyard worthy of your level on Brilliant will be receiving your lanyards by mail in the next few weeks. The lanyards are well made, from non-abrasive material, in colors that will not fade. Our lanyards will make your keys much harder to lose.

The Brilliant community is spread across the far corners of the globe, so delivery times will vary immensely. We expect most of the lanyards to arrive at their destinations in January. If anybody feels nervous about whether or not their lanyard will arrive, please be patient. The unofficial motto of the US Postal Service is:

“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds”- Herodotus

Rest assured, if you have claimed a lanyard on the points exchange it will arrive eventually, no matter how many oceans it traverses in the process.

The levels of lanyard are: red is level one, orange is level two, yellow is level three, green is level four, and the blue is level five. For those of you who have ascended to the lofty level 5 and redeemed a Brilliant t-shirt, those shirts will be ready to ship out in a few weeks. We will let you know when we begin delivering them.

Brilliant.org wishes all of you a happy new year and hopes 2013 will be a year of peace, progress, and mental exertion. In 2013 as in 2012, we will continue to provide and expand our weekly problem sets. Our hope is that they continue to help and fulfill you. Five months ago this site did not exist, and today there are 17,000 of you from 135 countries who have solved problems on Brilliant.

Recently we have opened a discussion forum, which we hope will become a valuable resource for this growing community. Already we are excited by the ideas being shared in the forum and encourage you to use it to make your experience of the site less solitary.

In the coming weeks we will be unveiling an application for the Brilliant Summer Camp for 14-17 year olds. It will be a full-scholarship, 7 day, immersion in critical thought, math, science, and cultivating your own projects and passions. The camp will be held in the USA at Stanford University. The Summer Camp’s activities will draw from the great resources of math and science research being conducted in the San Francisco Bay Area. Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks.

Have a happy New Year,

The Brilliant Staff

Note by Calvin Lin
8 years, 1 month ago

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