Three degrees (2 Undergrad 1 with Honours and 1 Masters)
Represented state/country in 3 different sports
Bought my dream acreage property with zero help from family

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Beanz' Mum

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US Army veteran. Started off in military intelligence (I've heard every joke) as an Electronic Warfare Signal Intercept Operator. Later became a Nuclear Weapons Specialist. Neither remotely as glamorous or interesting as one might think.

In civilian life eventually became a licensed Nuclear Reactor Operator. (Control room operator) Saved and contributed aggressively to employer sponsored 401K and retired after twenty years with house paid off and enough to live comfortably for life.

I was one of few women to work these professions.

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Xenon

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I'm year 8 and still don't have TikTok. Don't plan on downloading it either.

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TheUndeadOfNight726

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Finally I can brag about this! Some 20 years ago I was cycling to work and spotted a thief running off with a bag from a hapless tourist. I drove my bicycle on to the sidewalk to block him. And that's when I realised I was a small girl and he was a big guy. We looked eachother square in the eye, both uncertain how to proceed. Finally he just threw the bag at me, pushed my bike aside and took off. The tourist reclaimed her bag with a short "thank you". And when I arrived at work my collegues didn't believe my story, so I never spoke about it again untill now.

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October

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I passed the Ohio bar exam, first time, a year after I graduated, with a 9 mo old and a 2 yo. I was mighty proud of myself, especially since my wicked SIL, who had just graduated, and had no kids did not pass. She was evil to me until she died.

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Sheila Reinhard

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I have been clean off drugs for 16+ years, got clean first and only time ever going to prison. I have a pretty great life that I worked hard for. I don't celebrate any of these because most people outside of my family don't know.

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FABULOUS1

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I did my bachelor degree program (and got my degree) in 1 year, and I played music for our queen once. I wanted to say more but imposter syndrome just kicked in.

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Moosy Girl

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I'd love to brag about my modesty.

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trevor

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I killed a mass murderer and saved the forest multiple times. Oh, I also am extremely famous and everyone thinks I am the most legendary cat ever.

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Firestar

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I'm going to college next year at fourteen years old and I got a 36 in English on ACT practice tests on Friday. If my life goes as planned, I'll graduate from vet school at the age of 22 (with the help of dual enrollment). And I finish my longest novel yet in three weeks, stopping at 200,000 words. I'm trying to give myself some pats on the back but I kinda just tell myself to do better or I'll never get anywhere. No one wanted to listen to me at home, so... hi, everyone :)

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Echo

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I'm a better cook than my older brother! This isn't much of an achivement considering he can cook ramen noodles and plain pasta, but at least I'm better at him than something.

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Catman (He/Him)

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Mine isn't too impressive but here goes. Many years ago; I love cheese sauces but hate the ones that are thickened with starches. After many failures I heard of this food additive called sodium citrate and read it was an emulsifier. At the time I couldn't find ANY info online about using it with cheese so I just started experimenting with it and different methods, and figured it out eventually. The most basic form of this is just the additive, cheese, and water. It makes a perfectly smooth sauce and the flavor is all cheese; almost any cheese(s) you want, as long as it isn't too low in moisture. I eventually found a proper food-science article about it and it was nearly identical to what I had figured out years ago.

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I mean, I bragged a little when I was younger, but it was a while ago so nobody really knows what it was. But, back in 3rd grade, a bunch of schools in and around my district held a reading competition. I was in my school's team, and we won after 11 tiebreaker rounds. It was so much fun, and while I don't talk to anyone from my team anymore (a lot of time has passed) I enjoyed it and have a newspaper of it hung up in a frame in my room!
My dad took me out to get frozen yogurt after, and it will forever be a fantastic memory in the back of my head.

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Novadoe (She/They)

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Back around 2006 or so, I got put in charge of a huge technical project involving updating computers and technology for a large law enforcement agency. I had zero experience in any kind of project management at the time. Long story short, I brought the project in sooner than required and over $1,000,000 UNDER budget. The transition was a massive success. My boss at the time had no qualms at all about giving me such a huge thing to deal with. He had complete confidence in me and the support he showed me has stayed with me throughout my career and through many other projects. He was awesome.

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One legged Steve

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I have amassed an obscene amount of playing card decks and plan to get more as the opportunity presents itself. Also, I was right! I do have autism!

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oddly_informed_raven

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My father robbed me of any joy I could've had from saying this, so 10 years after the fact, I'm celebrating and bragging here:

I got a 97 on the ASVAB! (The ASVAB is the aptitude test you take when applying to enter the military to see what jobs you qualify for; the highest possible score is 99)

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Tracy Wallick

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i almost got ran over once but got to the side walk before it happened. idk if it counts as a brag but i've always wanted to tell people, but couldn't

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𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚠𓅨𓍊𓋼𓍊

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Not to brag😏, but I was actually 13 when I started 9th grade...(Because I have a fall birthday and was home schooled early on, so I was really young whenever I started a new grade.) So go me!!

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GURL BOSS

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I’ve won a skate competition against high schoolers (im in middle school)

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Was a Boatswain's Mate in the US Navy, on board the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). Part of my watch-standing duties included being the helmsman of the ship (essentially, I had a driver's license for the world's largest warship at the time). Being a helmsman is nothing like driving any other kind of vehicle. The Captain or the 'gator (Navigator) tells you to steer a certain number of degrees port or starboard and come to a particular heading (0 degrees = north, 90 = east, 180 = south, 270 = west). Once you're there and you've reported it, you need to keep the ship within 1 degree on course, though there is some leeway in stormy weather.

Well, after doing this for a time, I realized that I was noticing a particular sensation in my knees whenever the ship was listing to one side or the other. A little bit after I noticed that sensation, the ship's instrumentation panels would show that we were listing, and I would have to correct the movement of the ship to try to keep her on course.

Soon after realizing this, I started figuring out how to use the sensations in my knees to adjust to the ship's listing in real-time, much faster and more accurately than the instrument panels allowed me to do. It wasn't long before I got a BZ (Bravo Zulu - Navy slang for "Well done") from the Captain himself for my excellent helmsmanship. That actually happened several times.

I am in contact with many of my fellow boatswain's mates on Facebook, as well as others who served on my ship. I've asked about it repeatedly, but I have yet to find anyone else who ever was able to do that. I don't know if it's just because they never realized it was possible, or if my body was just particularly sensitive, but apparently I was a better helmsman than any of my other shipmates.

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i've been an emcee before and i may be one again!!!

i love being an emcee! makes me feel more confident about myself :DDD

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shanila.pheonix_

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I won a TV quiz show, but wasn't allowed to tell anyone until it was broadcast, which it finally has been - 10 months after recording it. I also invented a technique for processing large datasets that's 5 times quicker than IBM's stated "best practice".

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Apatheist Account2

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The Border Patrol was giving out 3 scholarships for students in the justice field. I won 2nd place by starting my essay saying this: “ it was a warm afternoon in July , when I decided to cross the American side of the border illegally “.

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Angelica Victor

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I built a bunch of cool things out of legos and still do. I think I read more than 1300 pages in a month. Somewhere around there, it way the chronicles of Darkstar and first 3 books of Eragon. and helped get a goat to eat again (which I don't think worked sadly). Invented several modes of sticks ( the game where you get your fingers to five and then your hand goes out) same month, at camp.
But what I am most proud of that happened recently is how I got Bell's palsy, defeated Bell's palsy, built a lego Tantive all in the week before school.

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The Amazing Fluffernaut

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I was fluent in english and hungarian, could navigate an airport with ease, pack a suitcase in ten minutes, and change in a car in under 30 seconds by the time I was a teen, for staters.

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Pizzaking, village burner.

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FIrst time I was in an airplane, I got to fly it

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Scam_Likely

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When I was deep into my 20's, I was at a party. There was a keg out on the porch. I filled two red cups of beer, one for me, one for my friend. Then, with a smile of confidence on my face, I walked towards the open sliding glass door dividing the kitchen from the porch. The only problem with this scenario was that the door was DEFINITELY not open. With an attention grabbing *THUNK-THUNK* (first my knee and then my forehead hitting the glass at full forward-walk force), I smashed into the door, crushing the two cups of beer against my torso, sending the cold, foamy fluid in all directions, soaking myself instantly. No one made a sound. No one even laughed! I tried to play it off with a lame-a$$ comment like, "Wow! THAT wasn't embarrassing," but that only made the crickets-chirping silence more awkward...wait, was this a "brag" question?

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Kevin the Manager

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There are many notable and sacred sites on the 33° latitude. From Easter Island to Stone Henge. This was brought to my attention in 2014 watching "Zero Point" volume one on YouTube. A year or so later I watched another feature on YouTube. "The Ark of the Covenant by John Hutchinson". He built a scaled down model using the very schematic and discovered that it is an enormous electrical capacitor. In 2019 I realized the most enigmatic puzzle humanity has ever known, and this realization has an otherworldly communication involved:

During a pole shift, Earth will not have its magnetic field, leaving the entire planet susceptible to solar flare. A problem once solved. Once being the only solution. The Pyramids of Giza focus the bombardment of solar flare during a pole shift into one concentrated ring around Earth. Instead of everything being scorched beyond recognition, the damage is marginal. The path of destruction is the 33° latitude.

The Sun isn't "burning". It emits electrical radiation which does not become thermal temperature until it reaches our atmosphere. The excess is deflected by Earth's magnetic field as seen in the skies of Alaska. The Aurora Borealis. The Pyramids of Giza are not mausoleum. No pharaohs have ever been exhumed from them. They are a gigantic lightning rod. I solved nothing. It's justly realization. I may as well "brag" here on Bored Panda, because "I told you so!", isn't going to be afforded. Earth's surface area is going to be leveled. This is why there are so many dinosaur fossils, completely intact, versus the scant remains from the Ice Age. The dinosaurs didn't have the Pyramids, and neither do we! They are STILL lain inoperable and that next pole shift is right around the corner.

My apologies for the length. When I'm bored I try to save the Earth and the world within it. I did a little more than "try". So, nanny, nanny. Boo-boo. I'm the one who explained the mystery. Had the "Ark of the Covenant" not been removed from the Great Pyramid. There wouldn't have been a "mystery". It also hasn't made its way back there yet. That'd probably be a great start. Just ******* ******* MAYBE.

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Alex Beal

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