Our sponsor got pretty mad because the entire school practically died during the last math competition. None of our teams placed, and sweepstakes was "unheard-of". So, in two weeks, we have to get ourselves back together and dominate at the Regional, which actually takes place at OUR school, so "there will be no excuses" because we don't have to be there until after 8:30, and we'll be in our own "environment".
Then, two weeks after that, we are supposed to go back to Buchholz and get first place sweepstakes at the "UF" Invitational, hosted by Nu Alpha Theta.
We'll see how that goes...
Back in December, I used about one and a half weeks to add most of the Algebra II concepts in our textbooks to my brain. Now, everyone knows all of the concepts. At this point, it's really more about knowing exactly what you're doing, using your time efficiently, not making ANY mistakes, and being more intelligent than any other fortunate mathematician. Of course, knowing more tricks always helps too.
Basically, if this weekend hadn't happened, most of us would be a lot happier.
For me, the discomforting part of the trip was not the competition, even though I failed miserably, disproving my chance of actually being good at MAO. I didn't even get 36th place. I don't know what I got, though, and I honestly do not want to know.
I ended up learning a lot more about everyone else in the process of two 6-hour car rides and an endless, detailed conversation with Diana until around 1:30 in the morning the day before the competition. We decided that our immediate world is a very scary place[, and especially mine..].
As of yesterday, I am officially in the Gifted program! Too bad... I didn't acquire any magically Gifted prowess.
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Yeah, Saturday was pretty bad. And the world is scary. Very scary.
Switch second period with fourth period!!!
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