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OPTICS / FLEDGLINGS THE QUANTUM ACADEMY A Quantum Student is... Reflections of a new Q-kid by: Inigo Aquino Diverse personalities are present in different schools and intitutions which students need to deal with. There are students who classify themselves as “cool” and there are those who focus on getting good academic grades. In our very own The Quantum Academy, Inc. it is undeniable that we have different thoughts, talents, skills, and characteristics. We, Q-kids are often stereotyped by outsiders as “above” and “unique”. And this is where the question comes: What is an average Quantum student? Who really is a Q-kid? I graduated from a big school, a university. It has many students from pre-school to college and graduate school. It is a school filled with a myriad of people with different cultures, family orientations, practices, and upbringings. There are the popular kids, the brainiacs, the jocks, the Goths and many more. Stereotypes exist among the groups and these are unavoidable. Prior to my transfer in The Quantum Academy, ‘Quantum’ had always been a famous name across almost all the schools in the region and in GenSan especially when inter-school academic competitions were held. Quantum for me was an academic “power bloc” institution. Before I entered Quantum, I’d been hearing people labeling Q-kids as excellent mathematicians with outstanding performance in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. But there was one dominant trait this school was famous 6 I OPTICS / FLEDGLINGS 2014 for—it is English-oriented. As former outsider, I thought they were very intelligent because they speak English very well. I thought they were very smart because of the loads of information they have. Some