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I can't believe I saw Calvin (the math challenge master) walk into my class and talk to my teacher and us O.O

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7 years, 4 months ago

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My English teacher was like, "Ok, we have a visitor today," and this man just walked in to our class. He had a name tag with the words "Visitor Calvin" on it. Our English teacher said, "This guy is a math genius. He works in San Francisco." We were interested to find out more about him, so he told us where he studied, which seemed vaguely familiar to me as I had been to his profile page before. Then, he told us, "I came back to Singapore to see my teachers. I will also be going to another school later, where I went for junior college. Also, I work at Brilliant.org". Immediately, those in my class who were active users of Brilliant couldn't believe their ears, and I asked, "Are you Calvin Lin, the Math Challenge Master?" Then, he said yes, and we asked him a few more questions. We wanted to take a photo with him but we had 51 English questions to do so we bade him farewell. After speaking to our teacher for a few more minutes, he left.

By the way, he doesn't really look like his profile picture. He wears black spectacles. Also, we asked him to say out the square root of 2 truncated to 100 digits but he didn't answer. He was like, "What..." XD

Victor Loh - 7 years, 4 months ago

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Black spectacles are cool!

Mursalin Habib - 7 years, 4 months ago

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Lool!

Joshua Ong - 7 years, 4 months ago

My favourite part is when he was like "What"? haha! People from Brilliant are amazing.

Arjun Bahuguna - 7 years, 4 months ago

Proof that this is true: http://math.stackexchange.com/users/54563/calvin-lin

Agnishom Chattopadhyay - 7 years, 4 months ago

Vote this comment up if you want Calvin Sir to upload his latest picture! I'm desperate!

Akshat Jain - 7 years, 4 months ago

What?!?!?! Explain in very great detail\textit{very great detail} please!

Trevor B. - 7 years, 4 months ago

He studied in singapore so he came back to see his teachers

Victor Loh - 7 years, 4 months ago

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Y he only visit your class? Y not mine?

Joshua Ong - 7 years, 4 months ago

Woah cool how coincidental I also saw him at our SIMO (Singapore International Math Olympiad) training party and yup I took a photo with him

Anqi Li - 7 years, 4 months ago

WHY NO COME MY CLASS!?

Victor is my schoolmate. My age is wrong btw

Yuxuan Seah - 7 years, 4 months ago

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Yx, u dun need to keep on talking abt ur age

Victor Loh - 7 years, 4 months ago

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LOL!

Joshua Ong - 7 years, 4 months ago

Victor Loh is known for lying dun trust him XDDDD i know him v. well >:D

Charlton Teo - 7 years, 4 months ago

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I know right, Charlton

Jowell Ling - 7 years, 4 months ago

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Jowell, your class is right opposite mine, you didnt see calvin?

Victor Loh - 7 years, 4 months ago

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@Victor Loh He came. I'm serious.

Fish Green - 7 years, 4 months ago

@Victor Loh What time was it

Charlton Teo - 7 years, 4 months ago

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@Charlton Teo I'm upstairs lol...

Joshua Ong - 7 years, 4 months ago

@Victor Loh I may be in the midst of a lesson. Anyway I am seating closest to the window so I can only see the people at the door.

Jowell Ling - 7 years, 4 months ago

Are you serious? What? In Singapore? That's insane!

Finn Hulse - 7 years, 4 months ago

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Seriously. He studied there XD

samuel squigi - 7 years, 4 months ago

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I NEED TO GO TO RAFFLES!!

Finn Hulse - 7 years, 4 months ago

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@Finn Hulse Too bad :P

Joshua Ong - 7 years, 4 months ago

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@Joshua Ong lol raffles rocks XD

Victor Loh - 7 years, 4 months ago

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@Victor Loh I'm definitely going to study abroad and go there. ;)

Finn Hulse - 7 years, 4 months ago

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@Finn Hulse Try to come, it's totally awesome

samuel squigi - 7 years, 4 months ago

Really? WHAT?

Kevin Mo - 7 years, 4 months ago

Victor you are really a lucky guy but please give details of his visit,PLEASE.

Soham Dibyachintan - 7 years, 4 months ago

Whoa! Details please...

Eddie The Head - 7 years, 4 months ago

WHAATT?! it's near indonesia. Why he didnt visit my country xD

Lu'lu Aisy - 7 years, 4 months ago

Guys, its true.

samuel squigi - 7 years, 4 months ago

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Hi Charlton (whoever you might be) I would say that I won't really care if you don't believe me. I posted this because I wanted to share my experience with others. You can even ask my teacher (According to you, you said that you knew me well, so you should know my classmates and teachers). You can even ask Calvin yourself.

Victor Loh - 7 years, 4 months ago

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dun act like u dont know me vic -.-

Charlton Teo - 7 years, 4 months ago

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@Charlton Teo Ok whatever XD

Victor Loh - 7 years, 4 months ago

o_o

Michael Diao - 7 years, 4 months ago

I wish he came to visit us. We had an exhibition in our school. He could have come here as the chief guest

Agnishom Chattopadhyay - 7 years, 4 months ago
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