Math camp: it's half over!

So, as you all know, I got a summer job at BCA to teach kiddies (erm, prefroshies?) for Holbrook-sensei* for six weeks! It's basically teaching chapters from the Art of Problem Solving volume 1 book. The job is relaxing relative to other jobs: first of all, math camp runs four days a week. Yeah that's right, four days a week! And every week is more or less a new week; the parents get to pick which week(s) their kids attend. So anyway, every week is structured the same way, with half the week devoted to learning and the other half dedicated for contests. The week's schedule looks like this:

Monday: Learn, do end-of-chapter problems
Tuesday: AMC10, learn some more if the kids feel like it
Wednesday: More learning and end-of-chapter problems.
Thursday: Contest!

So basically, for the past three weeks, Jeff L. and I were teaching the less math-inclined kids, which translates to aversion to learning, doing well on AMCs, and winning my competition. Well, the second week wasn't as bad as the other two. Nevertheless, my room paled in comparison to the other room. The contest is similar to ARML, in that it has three rounds: individual, team, and relay. The individual round, worth 40 points, is 10 questions in one hour, all open-ended. The team round differs from the individual round in that it lasts for only 45 minutes and is worth 120 points. The two relay rounds (3 people per squad), each worth 10 points, last for ten minutes each. Eight teams of six vie every week for old AAST shirts (and glory!) The difficulty of questions range from Mathcounts-level to hard AMC12-level problems. Results and contests are posted here.

In other news, after eating a week of Boston Market, I found out that their prices are grossly overpriced. Back to home-made salami sandwiches. x_x

Wait, I ran out of salami. Back to getting ripped off by Boston Market.

Darn, I can't win. :(

* I'm probably getting high on Naruto. Sorry for the inconvenience.

5 Highlights of Junior Year

So, another year has gone by, and we're now not jun10rs!!!! Here are the top 5 things that made my year awesomely speshul:

1) PEGGLE - how could I live without Peggle? All those days we played it in CompSci to pass time and to compete against each other to see who was the ultimate Peggle master?

2) ACSL - Getting a perfect on all four monthly contests was not easy. And neither was organizing the All-Stars contest. I had to talk to the housing coordinator in Alabama, buy plane tickets for everyone, and most importantly, do well at the All-Star contest. We had two teams go: an intermediate team and a senior team. My team placed 2nd place, but the intermediate team didn't do as well because our best competitors could not afford the trip :( but anyway, it was a really awesome trip. (and definitely worth skipping junior prom :D)

3) ARML - I got to hang out with my good friend from AwesomeMath the entire Friday :D She took me to a noodle place called Big Bowl Noodle to eat dinner. I met her math team friends and played Monopoly with them. It felt refreshing to hang out with something different. also, we (Mu A) did extraordinarily well (compared to the results from the previous 4 years), placing 11th

4) Class Council Elections - Rushdoony's election was just plain…awesome. I think Team Telecom made him run for the lawlz, not to give Jae Yu some competition. Rushdoony represented rebellion and iconoclasm (hmm, how about "think different"?). To promote his candidacy, Kamran made some posters that were undeniably awesome. Well anyway, despite the Rushdoony uprise, he lost the game.

5) My Awesome Schedule
I somehow did not die after going through nine classes at the end of Mondays -phew- and Wednesdays were awesome; only 3 classes and 5 hours free!!!

Honorable Mention

Lit class - this was perhaps the most enjoyable english class I've ever had; not only was Ms. DK an awesomely awesome teacher, but also fahmid, bryan, jake, lara, and all those people who kept the spirit up regardless of what we're learning.


WE'RE DA SEN10RS NOW!!!!!!

OH HAI

Wow, it's my first post! Yay! I'll probably write more comprehensive posts in the future. But for now, this is it.

back to writing cover letters for internships >.<