so its a SATURDAY night weeeeeee we're back on saturdays although it IS 11pm so like quite suboptimal. anyways some quick updates this time mainly because im deep in the tjpho grind and also possibly am occupied with schoolwork still
at least i am not sick anymore hahah it's been getting a lot hotter here now these days and it doesnt look like there is going to be rain anytime soon so probably actually into summer now
let's move on directly into
1-college applications
um actually not much on this front except i am writing like the responses to teachers' recommendation forms
also i guess this is the closest category i can think of for me to put the following: i met like people here who are like nice (ok wait let me restart)
so on wednesday the school hosted an internship fair for us AL juniors who are heading to internships next year and basically i wandered around and explored the myriad of projects that were around
firstly a slightly unrelated observation: i think i am actually quite an introvert around like unfamiliar situations cause like before i found the dr. hsu kids and the phys kids i was literally walking amongst the cs, material engineering, healthcare stands and i literally was being pushed around left and right and had no clue what i was doing i didnt even dare ask questions help... even though this may be related to 1- my lack of interest in those projects 2- my lack of confidence to speak because of my lack of depth in those fields but still hoelee i felt so lost at sea and ig it's a nice peak into college life? :')
next onto actual content from the fair: so i mentioned two main groups, the dr. hsu kids and the other physics kids. so firstly i think the dr. hsu kids' projects were actually really interesting and similar to my expectations they had a lot more to do with cs than i ideally wanted to but like that's our future in general so im not exactly like antagonising this golden opportunity at all but yeah it just definitely isn't my first choice.... while i wandered around other stands checking out the particle research that people did i saw someone who had a semiconductor project and it didnt occur to me on the spot but it happened to be one of our asb officers and i didnt even recognise her :sob: either way it was really cool and i reached out immediately after and now am just waiting on the prof to reply to my email (impossible).... :sob:
okay enough about that
2-competitive stem olympiads
let's put tjpho here ig
so this year the topic is stars and astrophys in general which is like kinda overlapping with last year's and unsurprisingly there were a few qs which were literally so familiar so that was nice. also in general this year's is just a tad bit more friendly to beginners compared to previous years', especially the 2022 exam (that was psychotic literally)....
the first section looks quite approachable as i tackled 2 3 4 without too much external help (LOL during our PE walk around the school on friday i literally got so bored so i thought about these problems)
honestly for the second section any subpart that i can solve i was really happy about and hopefully we can like iron out our solutions for 1-4 by like midday tomorrow and like start tackling 7 and 9 together
i actually really really want to get top 5 because they have actually crazy good prizes LOLLL
also i gotta remind myself that the deadline is 8:59 in pacific time lol
3-formula 1
so im actually doing this after quali
and what a quali session that was!!!
man alpine are slow again (ok i guess on straight-line heavy tracks they are just like naturally dead) but pierre outqualified esteban which is nice
ferrari looks terrible
im actually praying praying praying for a merc win tomorrow (either driver, although lewis looks less plausible) it would actually make my day or week or month even. i would like believe in life again trust
ok here's to my predictions but theyre like bad cause there's gonna be rain tomorrow
verstappen russell norris / hamilton piastri / alonso stroll tsunoda ricciardo leclerc
poor ferrari sob
random iconic pic
4-other sports
rain in road america would make for a fun race except i cant watch tmrw cause guests rip
also its prolly gonna be dry
how did chadwick get pole??? i will never know but slay i guess
5-gaming
im actually speeding through this right now but um lost quite a lot of cordelius trophies recently while gaining a lot too LOL its just constantly being mindful of how i play instead of going instinctively
also ive gotten better at using edgar LOL
5v5 is kinda crazy mode LOL
6-school stuffs/clubs
end of year for programming and sciclub aaaaa i will miss our seniors so much so much so much i literally ugh i want to leave with them cause being the oldest is not fun :(
7-science bowl
so i had this crazy weird idea on thursday. hold your beer and hear me out alright:
hopefully even if like one or two of the cups dont come to reality it will still be an epic season trust omg i really really want this to happen like i might even go talk to dr. k to get some packets to make this happen help
8-science olympiad
president and vp definitely deserved !! as for the other officers my opinion is varied but i will not comment here as i will get very much cancelled for some of my opinions!! (this is a joke for legal reasons)
9-tay / other music
evermore is literal art and now my quad of sad albums is complete: folkmore and the tortured reds department LOL
10-misc
oh i kind of talked about misc stuff in the intro but rahhh hopefully i get to keep my 4.0 come the end of next week and not troll LOL help help help i am so fucked if i dont
BYEEE it is very late now rip
Who are Dr. Hsu and Dr. K.? 🐻
dubs