Olympiad struggles
by shiningsunnyday, Mar 28, 2017, 3:46 PM
Before that, let me quickly address my new blog title. I've been surprisingly calm the past few days - I've envisioned myself finally achieving my USAMO dream so many times in my head that when it finally happened I had a hard time differentiating it from my imagination. At first, I strongly considered leaving the title as it is (and will probably change it back to "A USAMO Dream" after USAMO). I think more than anything, I'm still the exact same person as before the AIME - the same boy chasing his dream, and I hope my blog forever portrays me as that. Nevertheless, one of my greatest fears is that of complacency - which is why I changed my title to A MOP Dream. "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
Over the past few days of spring break, I've noticed a general trend of my thought process from before to after attempting an olympiad problem.
So apparently 3 months of doing only comp math rendered my previous oly-skills nonexistent?
This is getting ridiculous - right after I changed my blog title and now there's serious question as to whether I can make it out the test not getting swept. USAMO is in 3 weeks and I'm in horrible condition for doing olympiad problems (perhaps burnout after everything that happened...) - any urgent advice!?
Also my aunt is coming back for visiting and attending my grandma's burial tomorrow - and she's bringing with her my WOOT goody box! Maybe the WOOT shirt will activate my inner beast?
Over the past few days of spring break, I've noticed a general trend of my thought process from before to after attempting an olympiad problem.
My thoughts wrote:
Me: *watching this* 
Me: *closes window* ok oops break's over back to math
Me: er ok what problem should I do hm let me try 2013 AMO 1, hoping for insta-solve cause I'm quite confident in my geo 1/4 skills
Me: *draws diagram* *messes up circle with compass - ARGHHH*
Me: RIP *redraws diagram* wth these two points almost coincide this is a trash diagram
Me: *redraws another diagram* *stares at it for 30 mins without any observations*
Me: *realizes I forgot all my geo lemmas*
Me: RAGE QUIT!1!1!
Me: *checks facebook* *checks Skype* *checks YouTube* wait nigahiga's new kpop video out? *click*
*rip*
x20 times (end up attempting like 20 problems and solving none)
*later, remembers I'm super behind on school work and that my job during spring break is to catch up on everything*
*realizes I haven't gotten anything done the whole day"
*rage-stress*
*does homework/procrastinate rest of night*
Me: *closes window* ok oops break's over back to math
Me: er ok what problem should I do hm let me try 2013 AMO 1, hoping for insta-solve cause I'm quite confident in my geo 1/4 skills
Me: *draws diagram* *messes up circle with compass - ARGHHH*
Me: RIP *redraws diagram* wth these two points almost coincide this is a trash diagram
Me: *redraws another diagram* *stares at it for 30 mins without any observations*
Me: *realizes I forgot all my geo lemmas*
Me: RAGE QUIT!1!1!
Me: *checks facebook* *checks Skype* *checks YouTube* wait nigahiga's new kpop video out? *click*
*rip*
x20 times (end up attempting like 20 problems and solving none)
*later, remembers I'm super behind on school work and that my job during spring break is to catch up on everything*
*realizes I haven't gotten anything done the whole day"
*rage-stress*
*does homework/procrastinate rest of night*
So apparently 3 months of doing only comp math rendered my previous oly-skills nonexistent?
This is getting ridiculous - right after I changed my blog title and now there's serious question as to whether I can make it out the test not getting swept. USAMO is in 3 weeks and I'm in horrible condition for doing olympiad problems (perhaps burnout after everything that happened...) - any urgent advice!?
Also my aunt is coming back for visiting and attending my grandma's burial tomorrow - and she's bringing with her my WOOT goody box! Maybe the WOOT shirt will activate my inner beast?
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