Saad Sarwana: The Math Test
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2016
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Saad Sarwana is finally about to win a high school award, but in his way is a math problem even the teacher got wrong. Saad Sarwana grew up in Pakistan, and moved first to Canada and then eventually to the US to attend graduate school in Physics. He's a professional physicist by day and an amateur standup comedian by night! As a Physicist, Saad has over 30 peer reviewed publications and two US patents. As a comedian Saad has performed over 1000 shows over 20 years. He co-hosts the Science Channel show "Outrageous Acts of Science", Season four starts to air in Feb 2016.
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| 0:28.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:32.8 | And I felt it's really strange. |
| 0:35.2 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.1 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:45.4 | Hey, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal |
| 0:55.0 | stories about science. This week's stories from Saad Sarwana. It was recorded in January |
| 0:59.8 | 2016 at the Korean Theater in New York City as part of STEMFest 2016. |
| 1:21.3 | So I went to school in a very old, in an English-language-speaking school in Pakistan, which was formed during the British Raj. |
| 1:24.9 | And it followed the GCEO and A-Level system. |
| 1:28.2 | And being an old school, it had a lot of British culture in it. |
| 1:30.2 | So we had headboys, house captains. |
| 1:32.9 | Think Hogwarts for those of you. |
| 1:35.0 | And ever since we were in first grade, |
| 1:38.0 | they assigned class positions to everyone in the class. |
| 1:41.3 | People in the first second, who came first, second, and third got prizes. |
| 1:44.9 | So ever since I was a child, I knew I was mediocre. |
| 1:49.0 | Absolutely. |
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