High School Brainiacs Secretly Harboring All Sorts Of Depraved Thoughts

Dave Bry
The Awl
Published in
1 min readMar 10, 2011

“The students memorize all they can, usually in 15-minute stretches of tedious silence. Then they spill their memory to recall, say, 120 random words in exact order. (That is roughly the length of this article to the end of this sentence, but with the words shuffled.) Or maybe they will try to match 159 unfamiliar names to photos of strangers, or recall 227 exact words, capital letters and punctuation of a poem read for the first time. Those are, after all, the national records held by members of the Hershey memory team.”
— These students at Hershey High School in Hershey, Pennsylvania are very impressive. Of course, from what we learned yesterday from what Maureen Dowd learned from Joshua Foer, we know that they probably do so well by envisioning their family members performing disgusting sex acts.

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Dave Bry
The Awl

I grew up in New Jersey. I live in New York. I write for the Awl, and also a book called Public Apology, for Grand Central Publishing.