I went to a super competitive prep school, where everyone had Ivy on the brain. I remember two girls my age on the student newspaper. They both worked very hard at it, and when we were seniors they fought each other, practically to the death, over who got the top editor spot. The loser got the next rung. Both went on to Yale. Yale has one of the best college newspapers in the country, the Yale Daily News. I remember looking them up in college to see if either had continued in journalism; the answer was no. The girl who became the editor in chief? She became an investment banker as soon as she graduated.
My point is, these kids in the science fairs, like those two girls, are just doing whatever it takes to get into college, and may not have any real interest in being scientists.
Columbia and NYU are both on there. Columbia's campus is coated in open wireless, so anyone could walk on and get on that way, plus there are plenty of buildings on the campus that anyone could walk into to sit and do all this. NYU requires you to register with their IT services to access their wireless. I'm not sure what the Columbia University policy is on use of their wireless, and the RIAA claims they broke no laws in obtaining this information, so it's still not clear that it went down this way.
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I went to a super competitive prep school, where everyone had Ivy on the brain. I remember two girls my age on the student newspaper. They both worked very hard at it, and when we were seniors they fought each other, practically to the death, over who got the top editor spot. The loser got the next rung. Both went on to Yale. Yale has one of the best college newspapers in the country, the Yale Daily News. I remember looking them up in college to see if either had continued in journalism; the answer was no. The girl who became the editor in chief? She became an investment banker as soon as she graduated. My point is, these kids in the science fairs, like those two girls, are just doing whatever it takes to get into college, and may not have any real interest in being scientists.
Columbia and NYU are both on there. Columbia's campus is coated in open wireless, so anyone could walk on and get on that way, plus there are plenty of buildings on the campus that anyone could walk into to sit and do all this. NYU requires you to register with their IT services to access their wireless. I'm not sure what the Columbia University policy is on use of their wireless, and the RIAA claims they broke no laws in obtaining this information, so it's still not clear that it went down this way.