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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
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.
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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
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Black spectacles are cool!
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Lool!
My favourite part is when he was like "What"? haha! People from Brilliant are amazing.
Proof that this is true: http://math.stackexchange.com/users/54563/calvin-lin
Vote this comment up if you want Calvin Sir to upload his latest picture! I'm desperate!
What?!?!?! Explain in very great detail please!
He studied in singapore so he came back to see his teachers
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Y he only visit your class? Y not mine?
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
WHY NO COME MY CLASS!?
Victor is my schoolmate. My age is wrong btw
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Yx, u dun need to keep on talking abt ur age
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LOL!
Victor Loh is known for lying dun trust him XDDDD i know him v. well >:D
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I know right, Charlton
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Jowell, your class is right opposite mine, you didnt see calvin?
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Are you serious? What? In Singapore? That's insane!
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Seriously. He studied there XD
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I NEED TO GO TO RAFFLES!!
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Really? WHAT?
Victor you are really a lucky guy but please give details of his visit,PLEASE.
Whoa! Details please...
WHAATT?! it's near indonesia. Why he didnt visit my country xD
Guys, its true.
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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.
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dun act like u dont know me vic -.-
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o_o
I wish he came to visit us. We had an exhibition in our school. He could have come here as the chief guest