Challenge accepted, attempted, met.
Majority of my science was obtained through grinding contracts with the reputation to science bonus from Administration. .. A good portion also came from performing science experiments around the KSC and surrounding biomes (including a very ambitious suborbital launch to the northern ice shelf) and up to high orbit altitudes around kerbin .. I did however admittedly alter the difficulty settings in one respect ... I turned off the additional ground stations on kerbin relating to the CommNet