How to win awards

halcyonheather
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:31:46 +0000

I tried taking Math competitions (AMC), but the questions were way too hard for me since I’m not a math genius.



No, they were too hard for you because you didn’t know how to solve them. That kind of math isn’t usually taught in high school, and you can’t expect to understand it without, y’know, studying it. People always say they’re not smart enough because it gets them off the hook and they don’t have to feel that it was their lack of hard work that led to their failure. (Not that doing badly on the AMC is a failure, because I did badly on it also. :))