My day, for lack of anything more interesting

[godream]

School, then math team competition. (I'm not quite sure how I ended up on the team but I did.) We lost miserably, but it was kinda fun. Then ten minutes of robotics and now home, where I now have to do my physics lab and find my copy of Midsummer Night's Dream already. Also charge my cell phone, because at the moment it's a shiny paperweight.

My life is kinda boring, huh?

Amusing things heard recently:
- On how much the dark cold months suck: "It's like being dead, except with homework."
- On our town: "The slums of Sudbury: we only have two cars."
- On physics grades, by teacher, deadpan: "It was kind of a reverse gaussian distribution."

Comments

[merulina.livejournal.com]

"It's like being dead, except with homework."
LOL

How does a math team compete? Do you complete a sheet of math questions, or do you do timed problems?

[godream.livejournal.com]

In this one there were six rounds; each of the ten people on the team competed in three. Each round had three problems, each problem was worth 2 points. 10 minutes to a round. Plus there was a team round: 12 minutes for 6 three-point problems. We got 93 points, iirc, which was somewhere in the realm of half the possible points, I think. I believe the winning team had somewhere between 160 and 180.

Sorry if that made no sense whatsoever -- I'm going to bed now. :P

[merulina.livejournal.com]

No no, I understand. It sounds very difficult though. But maybe that's just me, math was never my best subject.