But this time the winner, GeneGenie27, was actually human a 20-year-old Columbia University undergrad with a knack for virology.
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He attended Georgetown University as an undergrad, and later Harvard Law School, where he met his future wife, Maureen McCarthy, who was attending nearby Radcliffe.
Other surprises included the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (9), the University of Portland (13), my undergrad safety school of Macalester (18), and Columbia University (61), which holds the well-deserved honor of rejecting me four straight times to their graduate school of journalism.
As an undergrad at the University of Virginia in the late '90s, Flatley spent Sundays baking batches of granola to keep her going through the week.
While earning a master's in computer science at the University of Portland she taught undergrad Saudi men, who at first had a hard time taking her seriously, but eventually succumbed to her intellect and the fear of her red pen.
After completing his undergrad degree at Wesleyan University in the U.S., the lad had returned to India to set up a weavers' cooperative in Rajasthan.
Born in the small town of Liyang in Jiangsu province near Shanghai and with an undergrad degree from Tsinghua University, his smarts, enthusiasm and dedication helped him land him a job within a few weeks, as a marketing director of cloud computing startup Dao-Gene in Beijing.
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Consider Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, stalked by the paparazzi during their undergrad days at New York University.
Ben Affleck has come a long way since I first met him and interviewed him as an undergrad student at George Mason University for Good Will Hunting back in 1997.
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One day, as an undergrad studying biochemistry at the University of Arizona, he made a list of all the things he wanted to do in life, which included travelling to other solar systems.
She completed her undergrad degree, summa cum laude, at the University of Michigan and people tell her she is the first designer to graduate from Harvard Business School.
An avid gamer, Le Hong Minh, 32, started VinaGame in 2004 with other players after getting an undergrad degree in finance from Australia's Monash University and giving up his investment banking career.
Obama was born in Hawaii, lived for a time as a child in Indonesia, received both his undergrad and law degrees from Ivy League schools and taught law at the equally prestigious University of Chicago.
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