User:Knittingfrenzy18

Yello. Call me Red.

About knittingfrenzy18

Bio

knittingfrenzy18 is a energetic, way-too-many-interests girl who currently lives in Maryland. Her interests include cello, cross-country running, Latin, knitting, NASCAR, ping-pong, piano, and many more things, not to mention math. knittingfrenzy18 prefers you to call her Red, since that is her favorite color, as well as being a conveniently short alias.

knittingfrenzy18 especially likes learning languages; English is her first language, she is almost fluent in Mandarin Chinese, currently in Latin 3, and knows a snip of Spanish, German, French, and Korean.

She is half-Taiwanese and half-Korean.

knittingfrenzy18 requests you to call her Red. Just Red. Not knittingfrenzy18, knitting, kf18, Purple, potato, or anything of the sort.

Music

knittingfrenzy18 has played the cello for a little over 5 years. Before starting on the cello, she played piano for two years, and still enjoys digging Scott Joplin sometimes.

knittingfrenzy18 has participated in her local youth orchestra organization for a little over 4 years (is now in her 5th year).

First Year in Orchestra

In her first year, there were 5 orchestras, and she participated in the youngest group as the assistant principal.

Second Year in Orchestra

In her second year, she participated in the same group as principal. With this same group she traveled to Carnegie Hall and was featured as a soloist in the Concerto Grosso No. 4 by Corelli.

Third Year in Orchestra

In her third year, a 6th orchestra came into being, and then became the youngest group. In accordance to this new 6th group, she then moved to the 3rd group from the bottom, and was assistant principal.

Fourth Year in Orchestra

In her fourth year, Red was the principal cellist of the 3rd youngest group.

Fifth Year in Orchestra

In her fifth year, Red earned co-principal in the 4th youngest group.

Math

AoPS

Red is currently in her 7th class with AoPS. The classes she has taken are as follows:

(the list is somewhat incomplete as Red struggles to remember who her primary TAs were)

1. Algebra 1, Jeremy Copeland/Richard Rusczyk, wobster109/joelinia
2. Introduction to Counting and Probability, Ashley Ahlin, wobster109/joelinia/redcomet46
3. Introduction to Number Theory, Joshua Zucker, 236factorial/Duelist
4. Advanced MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8, Michael Nagle, ANieh/flying2828
5. Algebra 2, Marcus Neal, Anna Smith/AdmireEuler
6. Introduction to Geometry, Jeremy Copeland, ArianaL/tlcruickshank
7. Algebra 3, Justin Bae, 5space/brentnicklas

Math Competitions

AMC 8

2011: 17
2012: 15
2013: 21

MATHCOUNTS

2012

Participated individually
Chapter: <score lost>
State: 16-17 or something like that

2013

Participated with a team of 4 from Chapter + 1 individual, participated with a team of 4 at State
Chapter: 25 (32.25 as a team score, 7th place Team, 42nd place individually)
State: 24 (28.75 as a team score, 6th place Team (beating 7th place by 0.25), 41st place individually)

2014

Participated with a team of 4, 5 individuals, and 1 alternate at Chapter; participated with a team of 4 at State (1 individual qualified but did not participate)
Chapter: 38 (49.75 as a team score, 3rd place Team, 15th place individually)
State: 24 (34.50 as a team score, 4th place Team, 25th place individually)

In 2014, Red played a large role in coaching the team. She led a club, sharing middle school concepts, and completing the Gold Level Project.

AoPS Projects

To Infinity-And Beyond!-Serving You Your Weekly Dish of Pi

Back in Fall 2011-Spring 2012, Red ran a somewhat organized newsletter with an incredibly cheesy name. It was often abbreviated TIAB, and eventually died due to lack of good material and no time on Red's part. The remains of the thread lies <url>viewtopic.php?f=139&t=439206 here</url>.

Games

Red's first game was mod-abandoned by herself. It was a minigame/kill the other team type game called Alligators and Crocodiles, which initially stemmed from her having accidentally called a TA a crocodile in her first class.

Red modded the eleventh installment of the Mole franchise on AoPS two years after failing her first game. She still is learning/working on making better puzzles, but for a second game, it was much better structured than the first.

Mafia

Red plays mafia sometimes. She is working on achieving a SE status, but still is rightly a newbie for now.

Musings

Musings is Red's current, and second, blog. It consists of daily (mostly) thoughts that run through my mind, other meaningful thoughts, silly things that came up, or other not so meaningful thoughts.