Revolutionary thought on elite college admissions + updates
by shiningsunnyday, Mar 13, 2017, 3:11 PM
Say you wanted to give a dear friend a beautiful package of ~6 candies as a birthday present. You have 95 blueberry candies, 2 strawberry candies, 1 mint candy, 1 orange candy, and 1 milk candy. All candies are of the same quality and went through the same rigorous manufacturing process.
To show my sincerity, I'll probably pick 1 strawberry, 1 mint, 1 orange, 1 milk, and 2 blueberries, the remaining 93 of which, unfortunately, are disposable.
Despite this obvious logic, most people still spend their lives trying to be the blueberry candy - after all, that's what your friends and everyone around you choose to do, right?
Which candy are you?
In about 48 hours, cjquines0 will arrive in Shanghai, where he will spend a day coming to all my classes with me as a shadow student before departing that night for Chengdu for ISEF regionals!
AHHHHHHHH I'M EXCITED.
First, if I haven't already mentioned, cjquines0 is an academic god. Unfortunately, my classes this Fri don't include my two math classes - multivariable and AP Stats so rip my chances of seeing cjquines0 annihilate the entire class with his academic prowess.
Second, this past weekend I've finished the entire poster board and sent it off to the printer (it's over 1.1 x 1.2 meter big). Meanwhile, CJ compiled our results into a super legit looking paper and despite his pessimism I still believe it has a legit shot at getting published in a non-trivial math journal. However, I've been "procrastinating" on finishing Ross apps
Nevertheless, though, life is hecka exciting, so I'll leave you guys off with a glimpse of some of my brain fuel:
To show my sincerity, I'll probably pick 1 strawberry, 1 mint, 1 orange, 1 milk, and 2 blueberries, the remaining 93 of which, unfortunately, are disposable.
Despite this obvious logic, most people still spend their lives trying to be the blueberry candy - after all, that's what your friends and everyone around you choose to do, right?
Which candy are you?
In about 48 hours, cjquines0 will arrive in Shanghai, where he will spend a day coming to all my classes with me as a shadow student before departing that night for Chengdu for ISEF regionals!
AHHHHHHHH I'M EXCITED.
First, if I haven't already mentioned, cjquines0 is an academic god. Unfortunately, my classes this Fri don't include my two math classes - multivariable and AP Stats so rip my chances of seeing cjquines0 annihilate the entire class with his academic prowess.
Second, this past weekend I've finished the entire poster board and sent it off to the printer (it's over 1.1 x 1.2 meter big). Meanwhile, CJ compiled our results into a super legit looking paper and despite his pessimism I still believe it has a legit shot at getting published in a non-trivial math journal. However, I've been "procrastinating" on finishing Ross apps
(SUBMITTED YESTERDAY
and AIME.Solved everything except proving the figure spirals around, a bit of technicalities with the final problem, and generalizing P4 (it wasn't required for us to generalize but I still threw in a bunch of lemmas/observations), a grand total of 35 pages (rip my dad who had to scan all of them).
Also rip my circadian cycle for ISEF this week and AIME next week.
AT 3 AM)Also rip my circadian cycle for ISEF this week and AIME next week.
Oops mocked both 2015 I and this year's I (mocked together with the cute deathllama9 over the weekend who got same score as me) and got 10 on both (ugh combo is bad).
Fortunately, assuming MAA keeps up with the consistent difficulty of tests this year, my realistic expectation is an 11 for the AIME II.
The only con, however, is that if you've been following my blog for over a year, I just found out that our testing center will be through the same organization as that of last year, which means I'll possibly have to fight my Battle of Gettysburg in the same place from which originated all my nightmares this past year - it was the place I misread both problems 2 and 3 of 2016 AIME II that ended up costing JMO qual.
However, this year, I'm stronger, quicker, preciser, tougher, sharper, higher, and most importantly, unbreakable.
So please, shiningsunnyday, don't f this up don't f this up don't f this up!!!
Any words of encouragement (I've received quite a few actually <3) will be appreciated.
Fortunately, assuming MAA keeps up with the consistent difficulty of tests this year, my realistic expectation is an 11 for the AIME II.
The only con, however, is that if you've been following my blog for over a year, I just found out that our testing center will be through the same organization as that of last year, which means I'll possibly have to fight my Battle of Gettysburg in the same place from which originated all my nightmares this past year - it was the place I misread both problems 2 and 3 of 2016 AIME II that ended up costing JMO qual.
However, this year, I'm stronger, quicker, preciser, tougher, sharper, higher, and most importantly, unbreakable.
So please, shiningsunnyday, don't f this up don't f this up don't f this up!!!
Any words of encouragement (I've received quite a few actually <3) will be appreciated.
Nevertheless, though, life is hecka exciting, so I'll leave you guys off with a glimpse of some of my brain fuel:
May 2018
April 2018