On Making it to IMOTC twice

by HoRI_DA_GRe8, Mar 20, 2025, 1:33 PM

POST BY ANTAREEP

Sadness 2020-2025

Ok so I made it to IMOTC .This is the second time also since I'm a 12th grader people know that qualifying was hard.

So how did I make it? People might think

I might have worked hard af in and out
Grinded every day
Left all amusements etc etc

And what not.

The reality is I properly grinded math only in december and before that I grinded football and barcelona, no cap.I've been more of enjoying my life after tc24 rather than work my as* off for exams.May be I've to pay for it later but I plan to work hard the upcoming months as well.
So then what led to my success? It's the mentality,you go to the centre not thinking what might happen rather think what will happen i.e. you in IMOTC.Hopefully Indian mo is a lot easier than usamo so it's not gonna be supa hard to qualify so there's a good chance for anybody making it to inmo minus quota people.The mentality I'm talking about could be more accurately explained as the same mentality Real Madrid have in UCL Knockouts and Australia has in ICC tournaments.Your mentality must be similar.You'll see how things start working out.

Finally for all my 12th grader friends who missed out,
I don't have much to say , just remember than you must've fought hard otherwise you wouldn't even make it to INMO .It was a good ride with you all so don't give up and continue.I would like to quote the legendary aopser Kayak on this context.For those who don't know kayak is the one who disproved inmo 2019 P6 in the test using vectorspaces and went to IMOTC in 12th grade.

Kayak wrote:

I precisely remember being in your shoes twice (waddling through a lot of teenage cringe I can dig up the links - 2018 (when I was in 11th grade; 12th graders were not allowed back then and I missed the cutoff by one mark), 2019 (when I was in 12th grade)). I did end up going to IMOTC though (that's a different story -- let's not digress), did my undergrad in math, and currently doing my math PhD now; so thought would throw in my two cents and what I would like to tell that version of myself.

I get what you're feeling - it sucks to not be part of that selected cohort of like-minded peers, who would obsess over doing cool math probletm for an entire frigging month. Or missing the chance of making the coveted IMO team. Or making math-sy friends. Or - let's be blunt here - getting the intellectual validation of feeling smart, that you get to be part of that "elite" cohort (which isn't really the case -- those who make it to IMOTC have an OK but not a great correlation with the "top X high schoolers in math from India"), especially if you don't have academic validations of this caliber before.

But trust me when I say it, a couple of years down the lane, it wouldn't matter really. If you want to pursue math-sy stuff (mainly talking about pure math/CS), the skillset that you built from Olympiad prep would pay dividends (and lot of people do much better when there's no exam pressure). And you would make math-sy friends in undergrad anyway (esp if you end up going to the typical top choices in India for maths -- and the entrance exams should now be a walk in the park). Many - or perhaps most - of my IMOTC friends are not doing math now anyway (most of them by choice, but for a nontrivial amount of them it's not by choice so it's not the silver bullet); and many people I know who are very good at math didn't really do that well in the Olympiads. Do not take not making to IMOTC as a blow to your self-esteem - there's a lot of noise of what happens on a particular day, and it usually evens out in the long term. And if you don't want to pursue math then it wouldn't matter even more.

Anyway do realize that not making to IMOTC is part of many failures that are inevitably going to happen in your life (not just in math/academics but in other aspects as well). Sounds cliche, but what you really can do is learn whatever you can from whatever went wrong, accept not everything is in your control, and keep trying for new opportunities.

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INMO

Sadness 2025

Sadness 2020-2025

by HoRI_DA_GRe8, Feb 24, 2025, 11:09 AM

POST BY ANTAREEP

Life is kinda sad?

All the MO friends I made have slowly started to disappear.I know I will probably meet them in ISI but what if our friendship has rusted ?, it's not the same anymore.I was not very close with all the friends I made during this time but certainly the bengali ones were the closest ones, they were the only places where I vented out,took confide in when my real friends were not good.Now at the end of the school year it feels like everyone has drifted apart.I won't talk about my INMO chances because it's same like last year, dangling of a dangerous cliff like a small thread.I don't know but did mains and inmo drifted me away? I never tried to drift away from anyone. I hope something good happens in everyone's life so that we can be together again.I hope this guy and my other friends who've started leaving servers get cheered up so that they are happy again.

Advice

When I first joined Aops I was a small kid, 4 and a half years have passed since then, I used to try many problems and was genuinely scared of harder looking problems.It took me 4 years to realise that had I not feared I could've achieved something much more.

I won't dive into much details about my mains but there's been something I've been bursting to say.Everybody who knows me personally knows my percentile so won't be mentioning that.But what I would rather say is that I didn't read the whole or the maximum of inorganic chem, a big portion of physical chem forgot to revise organic and didn't touch hyperbola.Although I was lucky that hyperbola didn't come in my shift , but I certainly did better with this graveyard of knowledge. The question is how?

For people who don't know , mains was my first mains simulating exam given :rotfl:

sounds hilarious but it's true.Ive given allen over the two years and always done phychemmath in this order.But when I opened my mains computer math came up first and for some reason I did math first.Strangely this decision led me to give out the best of me in mains and somehow achieve a good percentile relieving me of mains tensions leaving me with lesser tensions for inmo.

So what can we conclude? Knowledge certainly is the factory but in the end everything boils down to exam temperament.You have to fix your exam temperament so that the right ideas come rushing down in the right time and the maximum of yours is given out in any exam.Be it INMO or MAINS or WBJEE or ADVANCED. You have to realise that the will power of doing anything lies in your hands and you can do anything as you please ~~like I am wasting time rn~~ .So fix your exam temperament so that you don't have to regret about the effort you had given for the exam.

Another tip, you might be a neet,Olympiad or isi or cmi aspirant,be it anything do sit for mains and if you make it then advanced.Giving this exams is similar to going to school when you are young,making rl friends and playing and touching grass with them (I mean the exceptions to this are probably abnormal people only).Always check your potential through mains as if you are measuring your caliber,mains is a routine for every Indian science hs student .(Also if your mains goes unexpectedly good ~~like me~~ you'll see how the confidence in yourself gets boosted.)

I hope I could help the people through this humongous bullcrap I wrote and I don't have to regret the effort I put in here anytime later.Put your views in the comment section, bye!

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Life

Sadness 2025

Happy New Year Everyone!!

by HoRI_DA_GRe8, Jan 2, 2025, 5:35 PM

POST BY ANTAREEP

Happy new year $45^2=(20+25)^2=1^3+2^3+\cdots+9^3$

Everyone

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RMO 2024 CUTOFFs WENT CRAZY

by HoRI_DA_GRe8, Dec 21, 2024, 8:03 PM

POST BY ANTAREEP

So RMO had cutoff 50 and 66 in west bengal region :wacko:

and the girls quota was 34 :mad:

no wonder people are grinding too hard. Harder harder

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Angles in Geometry done correctly

by kamatadu, Nov 2, 2024, 7:35 PM

POST BY AVIGYAN

This is going to be a very short blog-post discussing about the notations of angles.

Backstory: This blog-post is written because the notation $\measuredangle (\ell_1, \ell_2)$ confused me so much that I had to ask what it really means in an MSE post. I was still not satisfied with the explanation I got there. As I read a few more handouts, the notations became a bit more clear to me. I hope the idea I am sharing in this blog-post is indeed the correct one.

We start with vanilla angles first. Let's say we have three points $A$ , $B$ and $C$ . Then suppose we want to find the value of the angle $\angle ABC$ . We can extend the lines $AB$ and $BC$ to note that there are four angles that are formed. Which one do we take?

$[asy] /* Converted from GeoGebra by User:Azjps using Evan's magic cleaner https://github.com/vEnhance/dotfiles/blob/main/py-scripts/export-ggb-clean-asy.py */ /* A few re-additions are done using bubu-asy.py. This adds the dps, xmin, linewidth, fontsize and directions. https://github.com/Bubu-Droid/dotfiles/blob/master/bubu-scripts/bubu-asy.py */ pair A = (31.64835,16.28958); pair B = (40.11708,2.37181); pair C = (44.07794,21.53331); import graph; size(8cm); pen dps = linewidth(0.5) + fontsize(13); defaultpen(dps); real xmin = -5, xmax = 5, ymin = -5, ymax = 5; draw(arc(B,4.60985,78.32093,121.31981)--B--cycle, linewidth(0.6) + blue); draw(arc(B,4.60985,-101.67906,-58.68018)--B--cycle, linewidth(0.6) + blue); draw(arc(B,2.56591,-58.68018,78.32093)--B--cycle, linewidth(0.6) + red); draw(arc(B,2.56591,121.31981,258.32093)--B--cycle, linewidth(0.6) + red); draw(A--B, linewidth(0.6)); draw(B--C, linewidth(0.6)); draw((37.77614,-8.95301)--B, linewidth(0.6) + linetype("4 4")); draw(B--(45.63427,-6.69530), linewidth(0.6) + linetype("4 4")); draw(arc(B,4.60985,78.32093,121.31981), linewidth(0.6) + blue); draw(arc(B,4.27057,78.32093,121.31981), linewidth(0.6) + blue); draw(arc(B,4.60985,-101.67906,-58.68018), linewidth(0.6) + blue); draw(arc(B,4.27057,-101.67906,-58.68018), linewidth(0.6) + blue); dot("$A$", A, NW); dot("$B$", B, dir(180)); dot("$C$", C, N); [/asy]$

So here, we define the notation $\angle ABC$ as the magnitude of the angle with measure $\le 90^{\circ}$ angle of the four angles we found earlier. For this case, it is the blue angle.

But what does the notation $\angle (\ell_1,\ell_2)$ mean? Is it the one which is $\le 90^{\circ}$ or the other one? Does orientation matter?

This is where the doubt first comes up. In vanilla angles however, this question makes no sense as we always define the vanilla angle between two lines as the angle which is $\le 90^{\circ}$ . Vanilla angles do not care about orientation too.

Thus we can now safely conclude that $\angle (\ell_1,\ell_2) = \angle (\ell_2,\ell_1)$ . So far so good.

Before we begin, we should keep in mind that "Anti-clockwise is positive and clockwise is negative".

Let us now move onto directed angles. This is where things start behaving differently because suddenly, reflexive angles start being considered modulo $180^{\circ}$ and orientation also comes into play.

We begin with the same configuration. Let's say we have three points $A$ , $B$ and $C$ (where $A$ , $B$ and $C$ are in anti-clockwise order). Now we want to find the value of the directed angle $\measuredangle ABC$ .

$[asy] /* Converted from GeoGebra by User:Azjps using Evan's magic cleaner https://github.com/vEnhance/dotfiles/blob/main/py-scripts/export-ggb-clean-asy.py */ /* A few re-additions are done using bubu-asy.py. This adds the dps, xmin, linewidth, fontsize and directions. https://github.com/Bubu-Droid/dotfiles/blob/master/bubu-scripts/bubu-asy.py */ pair A = (31.64835,16.28958); pair B = (40.11708,2.37181); pair C = (44.07794,21.53331); import graph; size(8cm); pen dps = linewidth(0.5) + fontsize(13); defaultpen(dps); real xmin = -5, xmax = 5, ymin = -5, ymax = 5; draw(arc(B,4.60985,78.32093,121.31981)--B--cycle, linewidth(0.6) + blue); draw(arc(B,4.60985,-101.67906,-58.68018)--B--cycle, linewidth(0.6) + blue); draw(arc(B,2.56591,-58.68018,78.32093)--B--cycle, linewidth(0.6) + red); draw(arc(B,2.56591,121.31981,258.32093)--B--cycle, linewidth(0.6) + red); draw(A--B, linewidth(0.6)); draw(B--C, linewidth(0.6)); draw((37.77614,-8.95301)--B, linewidth(0.6) + linetype("4 4")); draw(B--(45.63427,-6.69530), linewidth(0.6) + linetype("4 4")); draw(arc(B,4.60985,78.32093,121.31981), linewidth(0.6) + blue,BeginArcArrow(6)); draw(arc(B,4.60985,-101.67906,-58.68018), linewidth(0.6) + blue); draw(arc(B,4.27057,-101.67906,-58.68018), linewidth(0.6) + blue); draw(arc(B,2.56591,121.31981,251.28453), linewidth(0.6) + red,EndArcArrow(6)); dot("$A$", A, NW); dot("$B$", B, dir(180)); dot("$C$", C, N); [/asy]$

For doing this, we take the line $BA$ and rotate it in an anti-clockwise direction w.r.t. $B$ until it gets super-imposed on the line $BC$ . (If you thought it was the other way around, you were wrong!)

The orientation does not depend on the ordering of the vertices but rather on the direction of rotation. (I had the opposite idea a few weeks back too!) This statement might feel a bit ambiguous right now, but just hold on.

So when we are finding the value of $\measuredangle ABC$ (as shown in the image above), the positive value of the directed angle is $> 90^{\circ}$ (the red angle) for the case in the image. Now if we take this value modulo $180^{\circ}$ to make the magnitude $\le 90^{\circ}$ , we find that the value is actually negative.

The anti-clockwise ordering of the vertices do not matter here, but rather the direction of rotation matters here. In order to get an angle which is $\le 90^{\circ}$ in magnitude, we make the rotation clockwise which results in the value of the angle being negative.

Now in the figure as shown below, $A$ , $B$ and $C$ are ordered in clockwise order. In this case, the value of $\measuredangle ABC$ is actually positive. (The ordering of the vertices does not matter. Only the direction of rotation does.)

$[asy] /* Converted from GeoGebra by User:Azjps using Evan's magic cleaner https://github.com/vEnhance/dotfiles/blob/main/py-scripts/export-ggb-clean-asy.py */ /* A few re-additions are done using bubu-asy.py. This adds the dps, xmin, linewidth, fontsize and directions. https://github.com/Bubu-Droid/dotfiles/blob/master/bubu-scripts/bubu-asy.py */ pair A = (31.64835,16.28958); pair B = (40.11708,2.37181); pair C = (44.07794,21.53331); import graph; size(8cm); pen dps = linewidth(0.5) + fontsize(13); defaultpen(dps); real xmin = -5, xmax = 5, ymin = -5, ymax = 5; draw(arc(B,4.60985,78.32093,121.31981)--B--cycle, linewidth(0.6) + blue); draw(arc(B,4.60985,-101.67906,-58.68018)--B--cycle, linewidth(0.6) + blue); draw(arc(B,2.56591,-58.68018,78.32093)--B--cycle, linewidth(0.6) + red); draw(arc(B,2.56591,121.31981,258.32093)--B--cycle, linewidth(0.6) + red); draw(A--B, linewidth(0.6)); draw(B--C, linewidth(0.6)); draw((37.77614,-8.95301)--B, linewidth(0.6) + linetype("4 4")); draw(B--(45.63427,-6.69530), linewidth(0.6) + linetype("4 4")); draw(arc(B,4.60985,78.32093,121.31981), linewidth(0.6) + blue,EndArcArrow(6)); draw(arc(B,4.60985,-101.67906,-58.68018), linewidth(0.6) + blue); draw(arc(B,4.27057,-101.67906,-58.68018), linewidth(0.6) + blue); draw(arc(B,2.56591,121.31981,251.28453), linewidth(0.6) + red); dot("$C$", A, NW); dot("$B$", B, dir(180)); dot("$A$", C, N); [/asy]$

To make this even more clear, we take an example from EGMO. This example should make the idea even more vivid.

Now let us get to the original question due to which this blog-post was made. How do we define $\measuredangle (\ell_1, \ell_2)$ ? If you've read through the blog-post till here, you should try this little exercise yourself first before moving on.

For doing this, we define $T=\ell_1\cap \ell_2$ . Now we rotate $\ell_1$ w.r.t. $T$ in an anti-clockwise direction till it gets super-imposed on the line $\ell_2$ . Now if the value of the angle is $\le 90^{\circ}$ , that's basically our desired directed angle and the sign also remains positive (since we rotated in an anti-clockwise direction). However, if the value of the angle turns out to be $\ge 90^{\circ}$ , then we take it modulo $180^{\circ}$ and make its magnitude $\le 90^{\circ}$ . In this case, the sign of the angle is negative. Thus this case is equivalent to taking the line $\ell_1$ and rotating it about $T$ in a clockwise direction till it gets super-imposed on $\ell_2$ .

$[asy] /* Converted from GeoGebra by User:Azjps using Evan's magic cleaner https://github.com/vEnhance/dotfiles/blob/main/py-scripts/export-ggb-clean-asy.py */ /* A few re-additions are done using bubu-asy.py. This adds the dps, xmin, linewidth, fontsize and directions. https://github.com/Bubu-Droid/dotfiles/blob/master/bubu-scripts/bubu-asy.py */ import graph; size(8cm); pen dps = linewidth(0.5) + fontsize(13); defaultpen(dps); real xmin = -5, xmax = 5, ymin = -5, ymax = 5; draw(arc((40.11708,2.37181),5.21970,78.32093,121.31981)--(40.11708,2.37181)--cycle, linewidth(0.6) + blue); draw(arc((62.92721,4.40749),5.21970,78.32093,121.31981)--(62.92721,4.40749)--cycle, linewidth(0.6) + red); draw((54.45847,18.32526)--(62.92721,4.40749), linewidth(0.6)); label("$\ell_1$", (54.45847,18.32526)--(62.92721,4.40749), SW); draw((62.92721,4.40749)--(66.88806,23.56899), linewidth(0.6)); label("$\ell_2$", (62.92721,4.40749)--(66.88806,23.56899), SE); draw((60.58626,-6.91732)--(62.92721,4.40749), linewidth(0.6)); draw((62.92721,4.40749)--(68.44439,-4.65961), linewidth(0.6)); draw((31.64835,16.28958)--(40.11708,2.37181), linewidth(0.6)); label("$\ell_2$", (31.64835,16.28958)--(40.11708,2.37181), SW); draw((40.11708,2.37181)--(44.07794,21.53331), linewidth(0.6)); label("$\ell_1$", (40.11708,2.37181)--(44.07794,21.53331), SE); draw((37.77614,-8.95301)--(40.11708,2.37181), linewidth(0.6)); draw((40.11708,2.37181)--(45.63427,-6.69530), linewidth(0.6)); draw(arc((40.11708,2.37181),5.21970,78.32093,119.21372), linewidth(0.6) + blue,EndArcArrow(6)); draw(arc((62.92721,4.40749),5.21970,78.32093,119.21372), linewidth(0.6) + red,BeginArcArrow(6)); [/asy]$

Thus we can conclude our findings for the directed angles as, $\measuredangle (\ell_1,\ell_2)=-\measuredangle (\ell_2,\ell_1)$ and
$\measuredangle (AB,BC)=\measuredangle ABC=-\measuredangle CBA=-\measuredangle (CB,BA) .$
However I should mention that $\measuredangle (AB,BC)$ is the same as $\measuredangle (AB,CB)$ since both the lines $BC$ and $CB$ are basically equivalent.

I hope I was able to convey my message through this blog-post (plix halp this nub to larn bemter englis :maybe:

).

Thank You!!

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reminisccence

by HoRI_DA_GRe8, Sep 21, 2024, 10:31 AM

POST BY ANTAREEP

Finally created a math tag on this blog.

So for no particular reason I was thinking today about the past.About what we have done over the years.Then I looked forward 3 months to January Mains and Inmo.4 months to my school life coming to a close.I barely do math these days, dont know if I 'll make INMO this year or not.Heck I dont know if I can even solve oly like before. I have been only watching reels since Inmo results came out.
OK WAIT? Thats not what an ideal student does right? yes they dont.I did , I am stupid and that is well known.Kamatadu will probably make it this year. He is working hard , I really hope he does.

This guy first texted me in 2021 , we were both continuous ioqm failures at that time, and we were as well . UNTILL 2023. UNTILL 2024. This guy made some dumb mistakes in INMO and I still doubt if he didnt would I have been able to make it or not.

Believe me its been a lot . A lot. to be honest math doesnt even interests me these days. Although i still enjoy doing it nevertheless.We have a lot of memories , mtrp 23,24,rsm,sharygin and STEMS 24 .STEMS, oh it was the best and I am definitely not going to dive into the details because it has formed the best part of our memories or atleast I hope so.Now with a few days of oly math remaining , its time to jump in , with everyone of the lot.Jishnu, Oishik,Shameek, Avigyan and even Soham Bhadra. Time for one last race , one last fight..................

I hope everyone is in it and everyone fights as well.

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math

Everyone is ORZ

by HoRI_DA_GRe8, Jun 12, 2024, 6:05 AM

POST BY ANTAREEP

I put this post here because this blog is more viewed than mine and I wanted to congratulate this people from my heart but didnt had social media at this point of time

mayukh da air 5 in wbjee, air 190 jee
ahan da 15 air in wbjee and 1227 air in jee
shounk da 9 air in wbjee and 498 jjee adv
arnab sanyal for air 1 in isi

:omighty:

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orz

This is a yearrrrr of sequels

by HoRI_DA_GRe8, Mar 9, 2024, 7:24 AM

POST BY ANTAREEP

So people life is kinda "not bad" ,but at this moment practicals and chem backlogs are killing me (hoowwww dooo equilibrium

).Anyways I made this blogpost just to announce something completely non math.

The thing is this year a ton of movie sequels are getting released and they're gonne rock!!!! Here's a list

Kungfu Panda 4(released)
Dune 2(released) it has an IMDb rating of 8.9 lmao
Gladiator 2(finally)
Deadpool 3
Joker : folie a deux (I'm really excited for this ,the joker film was so good )
Despicable Me 4 (I'm super excited I have seen the whole franchise which is exceptionally good)
Godzilla x kong : The new empire

These are the ones rather on the top of my head as I can't think of any others for which I'm really hyped up.With that I bid adeu to all I'm also really excited for MI8 but it will release in 2025 which is soo sad

Anyways bye!! Good day to all

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movies

About a Local Maxima of the Happiness v/s Age graph of my Life (Part 1)

by kamatadu, Mar 4, 2024, 12:10 PM

(FAREWELL?) POST BY AVIGYAN

Before I begin, I want to let the viewers know that this entire thing is written just by me entirely from my own feelings and not imposed or influenced by any person (or ChatGPT). Thus the twisted nature of this blogpost is entirely due to my mindset. I used to ponder about these stuff a lot a few weeks back IDK why. Maybe I was too burnt out and felt like quitting which is why such weird thoughts came into my mind. Anyways, after the current condition of my INMO score (7 17 17 1 0 3 = 45), I do not think that I am going to qualify INMO anyways. a short rant for getting 7/17 in P1 and 1/17 in P4 I also add some more stuff about my experiences apart from all the boring `pondering about life and future' stuff that I do in this post.

My perspective on the meaning of Life

Honestly, I don't think that everyone of us (especially me) are capable of engraving our names in the history like Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Srinivasa Ramanujan and other similar people. So what happens one day after we die? The people close to us cry hard for missing us for a few days or a few months, or a few years, or maybe a few decades. But what once they die too (of course everyone is bound to die at some point, no one has yet obtained the elixir of life (or did someone?) )? There will be no one to cry for our sake, no one to remember us, remember how we felt, our memories, experiences and all sorts of other feelings. Is this what we were meant to be born for?

I also sometimes compare peoples' lives with pawns in a game of chess played on a chessboard by God. Is my life just like that of a sacrificial pawn or that like a pawn which gets promoted to some higher valued piece. Honestly, I think that no one can change destiny. The destiny you are bound to have written for you is the only future for you. No one can ever change your destiny, not even unbounded time of hard-work can change the final outcome of your destiny. Some people might try to argue this statement of mine with the idea from the fight between Naruto and Neji from the Chunin exams where Naruto gave Neji a lecture on destiny and how he changed his destiny to win the battle. But I perceive it in a different way. I think that the act of Naruto lecturing Neji about destiny stuffs and then finally winning the fight was his actual destiny which was bound to be followed. The uncertainty of the future both thrills me and threatens me.

After thinking on this topic for a few days, I found out an alternate solution to this. The thing is not to be in the history but to try to be in it. Our main motive is to live a life which we can be satisfied of when we are in our deathbeds (even better if it is a sudden death). In my opinion, we should do everything in our power to check things off our bucket-list (although I am saying such stuff, I myself am not being able to do so due to procrastinating over stupid stuffs). When we die, we should be able to die without regrets. But way more importantly, in order to make a try to sort of engrave our names in the history (if we were not able to accomplish the goal ourselves), before passing away, we should pass on all our progress onto our next generation (be it your own blood or not if you do not have one) and ask the successor to resume from the checkpoint that you ended at. This gives the successor a headstart to their life. In this way, we can request them to carry out our wills (only if they are feeling like doing so and are not taking it as a burden) and request them to attach both their and our names at the final checkpoint where they will end at (be it a successful ending, or a similar one like us where we pass down everything onto our successors). The idea comes from the idea of the `One for All' quirk that was passed down in My Hero Academia.

I think this is what gives life its meaning. The reason I think this way is that I had someone like this in my family (he passed away way earlier than when I was born) and I find that the meaning of my life is trying to engrave both mine and his name in the history and if I fail doing so (like he did), I should pass it down the next generation (be it my own bloodline or someone else's) to someone who is worthy enough.

I tried hard to make him feel proud even when he might not be here but I ended up being burnt out. After being burnt out, I started wasting time trying to find temporary pleasure by watching anime. For your reference that to what an extent I was distracted, here is the list of some of the animes that I can remember the names of which I started watching from a month or two before INMO which continued after INMO too. Most of these are of romance genre (also I fell in love with someone during this time, so not being able to see her since the past few months, I had a feeling that I might feel better if I saw more animes and so, I started binge-watching day and night and it backfired as I got addicted to it).

Horimiya (S1 & S2)
Toradora (S1)
More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers (S1)
5 Centimeters Per Second (movie)
The Garden of Words (movie)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (movie)
Whisper of the Heart (movie)
Weathering With You (movie)
Your Name (movie)
Josee, The Tiger And The Fish (movie)
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (movie)
Howl's Moving Castle (movie)
A Silent Voice (movie)
Classroom of the Elite (S1 & S2)
Jujutsu Kaisen (S2)
Komi Can't Communicate (S1 & S2)
My Dress-Up Darling (S1)
Your Lie In April (S1)
Rascal Does Not Dream Of Bunny Girl Senpai (S1)
My Happy Marriage (S1)
Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You (S1 & S2)
Tomo-chan Is a Girl! (S1)
To the Forest of Firefly Lights (movie)
The Dangers in My Heart (S1)
The Wind Rises (movie)
Kamisama Kiss (S1 & S2)
Solo Leveling (S1)
7th Time Loop (S1)
Summer Ghost (movie)
Fena: Pirate Princess (S1)

I feel so sorry for letting him down.

This was the part of the Local Minima of Happiness of my life, now let me speak a bit more about the Local Maxima of Happiness of my life from Sharygin 2023 Finals (which was held in India at Cheenta) and STEMS 2024 camp.

A Local Maxima of Happiness in my life

When I went to Cheenta for the Sharygin Finals, I met Arjun, Archit, Kanav, Vishruth, Parth and Debayu whom I had only spoken with via discord. This was my first time meeting them ever in my life. It was like a dream of mine coming true. Honestly, I thought people became more complex (in other words egoistic) once they progress upwards the path of knowledge (dude they literally have ~~SOF~~ original IMO medals), but it turned out to be the exact opposite (except a few school teachers I have met).

I remember that we all were chatting a bit with each other before Arjun entered. If I am not wrong, when Arjun entered the room, almost everyone stopped speaking suddenly for a short amount of time. Arjun really gives a completely different aura than all the people I have ever met (till date even when I am writing this blogpost). Although it seems like he is also a human with the same two hands, two feet, two eyes, etc, but he is really different from all the other humans. His aura is of someone like entering a battlefield without any fear about the fight or the outcome. He just enjoys it I think. I remember that after a few minutes when Arjun sat down, he made a joke ``If you feed me I grow, but if you give me water I die. Who am I?". After a few minutes, he told that the correct answer is fire. Bro this guy is so pure, simple, brilliant and knowledgeable, I just can't help but admire him. I had asked him doubts earlier on discord, and he was really polite enough to answer most of them.

Another guy that I felt was a bit different was Archit. After meeting him, he immediately reminded me of my past self when I used to troll 24/7 :rotfl:

. He was so relaxed under pressured conditions too and kept making jokes which I just couldn't believe. I have a friendly spot in my heart for people who like to joke because I am one of them too. Due to all these reasons, I started admiring him too.

I feel so bad for not giving Sharygin this year. This was actually my last chance to meet Arjun and Archit. I had planned to start solving the problems after the INMO results were out, but I felt so depressed after INMO scores that I didn't even check the problems. This gave me a lesson that you should never take decisions based on emotion.

Many months later in the December 2023, I had given STEMS Maths CAT B. Initially, I couldn't believe that I had qualified for the camp. After going there, I met a lot of other people. I was in a room of 4 and met Abel and Kanad there. Adhitya was in a room next to ours and Krishiv got a room in the ground floor. I also met with Saee and Sanjana. I had only spoken to these people in discord before. For the second time, I couldn't believe that people could be so friendly. I have social anxiety and cannot introduce myself to people unless someone asks me to and I end up stuttering and speaking non-sense when someone actually asks. But I didn't have much problem becoming friends with them at all. They all were so simple, like none of them had any style or something similar of that sort. After the INMO results came out, I was completely broken down. But I decided not to create a depressed environment due to me and so joined every game they wanted to play. I knew that this was my last time meeting them, so I fully enjoyed this time trying to forget about the INMO results during this period. While I was inside the camp, I did not quite realize how much I was broken down since I had the company of friends. After coming out from the camp, I realized that I was broken down to such a point that was just way beyond recovery. It's not that this feeling has completely been erased now. Sometimes now too, I suddenly get really sad thinking about the INMO results without any real reason.

I had initially started out doing Mathematical Olympiads for the sake of wavering the written exams of ISI/CMI entrances. I never realized before coming back to home from Chennai, but my intention for becoming an INMO awardee had changed from wavering entrance exams to meeting friends for the last time in my life. Apparently, I am not good enough. This is why, I give up on Math Oly now.

I even met Prithuj (MrOreoJuice) while entering the exam hall for giving RMO. All these experiences were like a dream of mine. What if someday I get snapped out of this dream and end up realizing that all of these memories were a dream?

No one knows where we all will be after 10 years and if anyone would remember each other. I definitely can say that I will surely remember them for the rest of my life, but I can't really say the same for all the people I have met. I wish we could just meet each other in person once every 5 or 10 years and have a little chat with each other about how life has been and what we all are doing at that point of time. But I don't think this is possible. Almost all of these people have critically high calibers and are bound to end up (if they want to) in reputed Ivy League Colleges which will definitely make this idea an impossible one. I wish I could just meet them once more. But now after failing INMO, I just give up. Let's see where the boat of life takes me finally. I really need to mend my ways now and get rid of procrastinating and passing time over YT shorts and stuff.

P.S.: I also met ayan_mathematics_king in CMI.

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INMOTC Incoming

by HoRI_DA_GRe8, Dec 25, 2023, 10:11 AM

POST BY ANTAREEP

Ok so Bros INMOTC is in less than a week.WB INMOTC is going to be held at ISI Kolkata and I'm planning to write everyday experience on it .1st to 6th Jan.Stay tuned fellas!

Day 1:

So we attended INMO TC day 1.We had a lot of fun,we arrived at 10 altho kamatadu and sanyalarnab was late.
The first 4 hours we were taught some cool geometric inequalities with reflection stuff,mridul sir was quite good then we had lunch the next 4 hours IMO medalist kaustav Mishra taught us double counting the problems he gave were pretty cool although a controversy between me and him raised during the solve of SL2004 C1 regarding a necessary detail of the problem which I won(yay!) .Well Kaustav was so nice teaching I thoroughly enjoyed his class ,but when he started teaching Burnside i was so tired thanks to the whole day that i couldn't focus and thus gsolved with Kamatadu and distorteddragon1o4 instead.Thus here day 1 INMOTC WB concludes.

A lot of fun events occured like my phone accidentally dialling, Kamatadu's duality etc however at this point of time I am too tired to write that.We ate chicken curry in lunch. Thus ,with that , sayonara!!

Day 2:

Yet to be written.

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