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About — Ruxandra Tesloianu

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I was born in a city in Northeastern Romania, called Iasi. This is also where I spent the first 18 years of my life. I always liked learning about literally anything, but did not like school in particular. Going to Science Olympiads (Physics and then Chemistry), which are very popular in Romania, allowed me to skip a lot of regular classes and focus on what interested me. I used to regularly be among top 10 students nationally. I also represented Romania in the International Junior Science Olympiad 2012 (Silver Medal) and the European Union Science Olympiad (Silver Medal). I was the Chemist of my team in the latter. I used the time when I was not preparing for competitions to read literature and try to find the meaning of life through it. I did not succeed in the latter, but I cherish those days. My favourite authors from that period are: F.M. Dostoyevsky, Emile Zola, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann & George Eliot. Me as a kid After finishing high-school and doing a year of Medicine in Ro

My life in 5 paragraphs I was born in a city in Northeastern Romania, called Iasi. This is also where I spent the first 18 years of my life. I always liked learning about literally anything, but did not like school in particular. Going to Science Olympiads (Physics and then Chemistry), which are very popular in Romania, allowed me to skip a lot of regular classes and focus on what interested me. I used to regularly be among top 10 students nationally. I also represented Romania in the International Junior Science Olympiad 2012 (Silver Medal) and the European Union Science Olympiad (Silver Meda

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