Aid to Evaluating Your Accomplishments

Compare yourself to these four ordinary people who were selected at random:

Former Community College Student Craig Venter Developed shotgun gene sequencing technique and founded Celera Genomics, a private company that raced ahead of the government-funded Human Genome Project. (more)	Political activist Evariste Galois Made enormous contributions to group theory, polynomial equations, and number theory prior to his death at age 20. (more)
Hartford Connecticut Insurance Executive Wallace Stevens Won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954; best known for "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird". (more)	Science Fiction Author L. Ron Hubbard Created the religion of Scientology in 1950. 1998 membership: more than one million. (more)

Programmed by Eve Astrid Andersson and Philip Greenspun back in the mid-1990s. If you're a nerd, you might find the source code useful.

Original Inspiration: How to Make Yourself Miserable, by Dan Greenburg