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I’m part of the world’s Top 3% + New Knowledge

Posted by Mikko at 28 February 2009

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Last Sunday, I took the Mensa IQ Challenge at Fully Booked in Bonifacio High Street, Taguig City. The first 30 items of the exam were super easy that missing out a point for a problem was a big deal. The next items (I won’t say how many) were moderate. The only enemy I had was the SUPER limited time.

The only criterion for membership in Mensa, is to score within the top 2 percent (98th percentile and up) on an accepted and properly supervised qualifying test. -Mensa Philippines website

Earlier today, the unofficial result of the 2.22 exam was released via web. Mensa posted the good and bad news. To maintain a level of privacy, they posted the codenames we picked from a fishbowl before the exam. My lucky word was MAGELLAN. Waaaaaaaa.

After checking the super cool good and bad news, I found out that I belong to the world’s top 3% IQ-wise. Hahahaha. Yes, I am a genius.

Yes I am a genius.

I am a genius.

Yeah, right!

Security Holes

Anyway, proceeding to the next item I’ll be sharing. I’ve recently shared to you that I have a hunger for knowledge and today, I was fortunate enough to learn something new. I love learning new things! It was a file transfer thru SSH crash course. :D

My orgmates asked me to generate reports of the recently concluded Computerized University Elections here in UP Diliman. All they gave me were the login credentials of the server where the database was stored and the I.P. address.

The account they gave me did not have any write access to the www folder so uploading the script thru FTP and dumping the results thru HTTP was not an option. I asked for more options and one of them suggested that I use SSH. What the heck?! I’ve never used SSH for uploading and downloading files, seriously. I never thought it was possible.

Since the only thing I knew was to login to the server thru SSH, I had to ask for help. Gladly, kuya Prem extended his help despite his busy schedule. I was also able to apply my newly acquired (last year) Linux shell skills like dumping something to a file. It was so much fun.

Yey, I am a genius. Yes I am a genius! I AM A GENIUS!! Mikko is a GENIUS!

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I Took Mensa.. Waaaaa..

Posted by Mikko at 23 February 2009

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Woot!

Fully Booked @ Bonifacio High Street

Yesterday, I took the Mensa IQ Challenge at Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street. And guess what, I took it on Mensa Day (2.22).

According to the Mensa Philippines website, Mensa is an international society in which the sole criterion for membership is a score at or above the 98th percentile on any of a number of standardized IQ tests. Cool, isn’t it?

I have a bad feeling that I’ll fail the exam. Waaaaaaa!! A number of bloggers already took the exam, and they passed. I want to be a part of the very exclusive secret society. Waaaaaaa!!

The official results are expected to be mailed to us three weeks after the exam. But there will be an earlier unofficial results release on the web thru their website, just check on the Good News and Bad News section.

Want to take it, too? Check Mensa Philippines for exam schedules.

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