Answered 23 just like the 12A; didn't quite avenge my 141 but I'll live with a 129.

Coming in, I was definitely not in the calmest mood, after having delivered my president-election speech for Mu Alpha Theta honor society, so I came into the test with my shirt drenched of sweat.

Our school this year is taking the AMC through another organization, so we had to follow a new set of rules in filling in our answer sheets - so the starting time changed from 3 PM (in previous years) to 4: 15 PM, so for one hour I had to entertain myself by trying to calm my nerves and balancing a mixture of positive and negative feelings.

Funny story: before the test, I had originally asked the coordinator to let me sit in one of the window tables at the back of the cafeteria so I can get more space. Unfortunately, she forgot to arrange my seat there so it wasn't until right before the test that she walked down from her podium all the way over to where I was and ushered me to the special window table with 100+ pairs of injustice-filled eyes on me.

Knocked out the first 20 within ~40 mins as last time then read the final five and brainstormed some ideas for each before checking my work for the first 20. Definitely felt good when I caught a silly. Then I took out the easy problem 23 before spending my remaining time on 21 and 22, and confidently put down 96 and 1/36 respectively, figuring I would get at least one of the two right.

Unfortunately, I sillied 21 by getting as opposed to and forgot one or two cases for 22.

I guess I'm 9 problems away from making my dream a reality.