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k a May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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May 1, 2025
May is an exciting month! National MATHCOUNTS is the second week of May in Washington D.C. and our Founder, Richard Rusczyk will be presenting a seminar, Preparing Strong Math Students for College and Careers, on May 11th.

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Jane street swag package? USA(J)MO
arfekete   5
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Hey! People are starting to get their swag packages from Jane Street for qualifying for USA(J)MO, and after some initial discussion on what we got, people are getting different things. Out of curiosity, I was wondering how they decide who gets what.
Please enter the following info:

- USAMO or USAJMO
- Grade
- Score
- Award/Medal/HM
- MOP (yes or no, if yes then color)
- List of items you got in your package

I will reply with my info as an example.
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USAMO Medals
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https://maa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-USAMO-Awardees.pdf
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how prestigious is hsmc
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been wonderin this for a while

how prestigious is it? ik its not as good as mathily (they rejected me :mad: ) but Idk how good it actually is
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9 Does Mental Health Actually Matter?
heheman   9
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Looking at the goals I once had, it was all just so silly and stupid

I didn't even reach my "Low" goal for AIME... so pathetic

Missed JMO by a huge margin, after missing by only 12.5 points last year

(BTW i didn't slack off one bit)

I guess the most important thing is just to keep my head up and keep going. I can't let failures stop me. Honestly I don't care about setting goals anymore. They only give me a lot of internal pressure to do well. I think the most important thing is to focus on what I do everyday, consistently, and pay attention to the beautiful things in life (like math).

I'm going to try getting more involved in real life. After coming back from COVID, I had trouble to make as many friends with non-math people. But I was reconnecting with some of my friends that I had prepandemic and I realized how precious those friendships really were.

Now the last thing to do is grind my last bit of nonexistent ego to dust and focus on the present, stop looking back

(Note: This doesn't mean I'm going to quit, I just mean I'm going to do math on my own and try to not feel any pressure to do well. Cause i feel like that pressure really beat me a lot.)

I love this community and am happy for everyone who qualified olympiad but at this point competition math just reminds me only of my failures. (Even if it's my own fault.) So I'm probably going to take a break for a while. Thanks everyone for being nice to me and stuff. Sorry if this sounds cringe (it will in a week)

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Looking for Physics or USAPhO Tutor
physicsplease   4
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Hii I am looking for a USAPhO tutor for next year's season. I think I have tried literally everything possible to improve but I feel like I just hit a massive roadblock right now.

It would be ideal if I can find someone who have a lot of experience with physics olympiads. My goal is medal/gold in usapho next year, and I am very determined & willing to put in a lot of hours, especially more so in the summer. Please recommend anyone or dm in aops, thank you.

Have qualified usapho before (last year), took both physics c and sufficient higher math.
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Hii I am looking for a USAPhO tutor for next year's season. I think I have tried literally everything possible to improve but I feel like I just hit a massive roadblock right now.

It would be ideal if I can find someone who have a lot of experience with physics olympiads. My goal is medal/gold in usapho next year, and I am very determined & willing to put in a lot of hours, especially more so in the summer. Please recommend anyone or dm in aops, thank you.

Have qualified usapho before (last year), took both physics c and sufficient higher math.
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Have you read the entirety of HRK?
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I have read the entirety of volume one and skimmed through the second (I plan to go back and review again); also finished blue morin and tried to make progress on red morin and purcell with no avail
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Hey I'm actually looking for people to tutor for Physics Olympiads currently. I'm a past IPhO Bronze medalist and I have a year of experience coaching a country's IPhO team. Let me know if you're interested.
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