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by Wiggle Wam, Feb 15, 2019, 6:45 PM

Scrolled through the AoPS blogroll for a couple of minutes. There seem to be 2 main topics for recent posts: AMC and Valentine's Day. So here's my experience with both of them.

I haven't done competition math in, like, a year? Maybe more? (I'll probably eventually make a post on why I kind of quit competitions.) Decided to take the AMC on a whim, though, as this will be my last year to take it, and I'm pretty sure I qualified for AIME! I'm actually motivated to spend the next month brushing up on my competition math skills to see if I can get a halfway decent AIME score. It'll be nice to have a little throwback to those halcyon days of tackling math problems just for the fun of it, and not worry too much about what scores other people are getting.

Next, Valentine's Day. I figured oh, what the heck, I'm gonna send a cute boy something. I texted him the equation for a 3D surface shaped like a heart. He responded with "...". Conclusion: Maybe I should stick to academics.

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Which part of the post are you referring to? :P
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by fuegocaliente, Feb 15, 2019, 11:16 PM

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Wiggle Wam wrote:
I haven't done competition math in, like, a year? Maybe more? Decided to take the AMC on a whim, though, as this will be my last year to take it
^same, though AIME is extremely uncertain for me (93)

Idrk why I stopped doing competition math, I didn't try to avoid it or anything. It just kinda dropped off, because "higher" math was more interesting and got me thinking like a mathematician more. contest problems are sometimes fun, but you can't really do anything truly interesting with them, because they're already solved, not open-ended or exploratory ("you must solve it in 5 minutes" vs "thinking about it in the shower the next day"). also you don't get the logical flow and illumination of building ideas that you get in higher math, sets of contest problems are often a bunch of random and contrived thingamajigs. I'd be interested to hear why you stopped competition math and if you agree with above

also oof I didn't mean to write an essay :P

by reedmj, Feb 17, 2019, 6:05 AM

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:O
no man who doesn't respond to 3d heart surfaces is worthy of your love

by InCtrl, Apr 5, 2019, 12:07 AM

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just curious, but what's the equation? :D

by DofL, May 2, 2021, 1:34 AM

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