Summer/life update
by shiningsunnyday, May 31, 2016, 4:24 PM
Today I handed in my final project of the year and finished my last non-exam assessment. The only exams I'm in for are Thurs, Chinese, and Fri, English... and US History and Math Level II SAT II on Saturday. My English and bio grades are pathetic B's, and my APUSH grade remains a B+, all for which oceans of tears have already been shed at nights. I was handed back all the recent English projects today, all of which occurred in the past month. I don't recall anything but numbness of the heart as my hands squeezed out the last of flesh. Result? I was accused of plagiarizing unintentionally on an essay and my grade deducted by two letter grades. My research paper (which I spent consecutive 4 AM nights completing) got a 70%. On the rubric breakdown, I received perfect marks for thesis, structure and organization (which is what matters, right?) but less than 50% for bibliography and citations, which only in the maniacal world of my English teacher (who makes students go through a separate curriculum of her own), weighs just as heavily as the content. Only in her classroom would one acquiescently attentively take in the following sentence without the slightest suspicion of any means of immorality. "How much times do I have to tell you about your MLA formatting? I've said over and over again that there must be one-inch margins on each side of the paper. *takes out ruler* And you're a full 0.02 inches short! You never pay any attention to detail, and you deserve to get 25% of your grade taken off for every obvious mistake you make. Now go redo this for the 12th time (literally), better luck next time." ...On the other hand, other English/bio/history teachers practically give free A's.
I've long grown cynical of the number out of 4 which every docile pupil in my school are taught to worship growing up. Moreover, I've grown cynical of people themselves, cowards whose inaction indirectly drive the corrupt system. So hooray as my cumulative unweighted GPA drops a full 0.08 after this semester.
Anyways... there's at least... something to be optimistic about: summer! Olympiad Geo is starting in 2 weeks, and I've been improving my geo skills a lot recently. Shoutout to the great Evan Chen. If you haven't bought EGMO yet, BUY IT. I expected Chapter 1 to be hard and unapproachable by a novice like me, but now that I'm close to finishing the first chapter, it's actually quite easy. 106 is also getting hard and interesting. I originally planned on posting a selection of all the geo problems I've been doing in spirit of Oly Geo, but that might have to wait a bit more. My goal for this class, along with Geo 3 at AMSP, would be to be able to solve geo USAMO 1/4s consistently by the end of summer, and possibly a few 2/5s?
Also, as is in my class, standing before me is the golden opportunity to impress a girl with something I'm good at
As for summer itself, the time I spend on math will really be determined by how I feel each day. I'm not worrying about lacking so I'll just wake up each morning and start working on whatever comes to my mind first -- inequalities or geo or Interm CP or whatever. I've also put the money I saved from going on the cheapest school field trip recently to good use: buying books like PSS and ACoPS. 107 is somehow lost!? but Lemmas in Oly Geo and Topics in Functional Equations are also on their way.
Finally, I realized that doing too much math might lead to a burnout, so I'm thinking of developing a hobby over the summer, something productive that's meaningful, like chess or piano or coding or something. Any ideas?
Anyways, that's it for now, Oh yeah guys and there's something called SAT.
I've long grown cynical of the number out of 4 which every docile pupil in my school are taught to worship growing up. Moreover, I've grown cynical of people themselves, cowards whose inaction indirectly drive the corrupt system. So hooray as my cumulative unweighted GPA drops a full 0.08 after this semester.
Anyways... there's at least... something to be optimistic about: summer! Olympiad Geo is starting in 2 weeks, and I've been improving my geo skills a lot recently. Shoutout to the great Evan Chen. If you haven't bought EGMO yet, BUY IT. I expected Chapter 1 to be hard and unapproachable by a novice like me, but now that I'm close to finishing the first chapter, it's actually quite easy. 106 is also getting hard and interesting. I originally planned on posting a selection of all the geo problems I've been doing in spirit of Oly Geo, but that might have to wait a bit more. My goal for this class, along with Geo 3 at AMSP, would be to be able to solve geo USAMO 1/4s consistently by the end of summer, and possibly a few 2/5s?
Also, as is in my class, standing before me is the golden opportunity to impress a girl with something I'm good at
Result? She never appreciated my humor for some reason... and since she's quiet in class and sits at a different table... I never had the courage to talk to her.As for summer itself, the time I spend on math will really be determined by how I feel each day. I'm not worrying about lacking so I'll just wake up each morning and start working on whatever comes to my mind first -- inequalities or geo or Interm CP or whatever. I've also put the money I saved from going on the cheapest school field trip recently to good use: buying books like PSS and ACoPS. 107 is somehow lost!? but Lemmas in Oly Geo and Topics in Functional Equations are also on their way.
Finally, I realized that doing too much math might lead to a burnout, so I'm thinking of developing a hobby over the summer, something productive that's meaningful, like chess or piano or coding or something. Any ideas?
Anyways, that's it for now, Oh yeah guys and there's something called SAT.
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