<p>I thought the AMC 12 was a lot harder this year in comparison to previous years. the questions were harder and unanswered questions were only worth 1.5 points. I don’t know how well I did. I answered 15 of them, but 2 of them were guesses, which was pretty stupid now that I think about it. oh well! :)</p>
<p>haha, I answered 15 as well. I wonder how many of them I got wrong…</p>
<p>About the interview notifications…</p>
<p>Will they e-mail us on the 5th? Or is it strictly snail mail? If no e-mail, I couldn’t wait for that letter to come. I’d just have to call them and get it over with.</p>
<p>Oh, and why not call 1-866-436-5705?</p>
<p>they email you before they send out the letters.</p>
<p>Alhambra!! OH YOU ARE SO LUCKY IRIS! Which reminds me, </p>
<p>DON’T forget to vote for the new Seven Wonders of the World! You can vote online at <a href=“http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php[/url]”>http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php</a>. So exciting…</p>
<p>On the topic of math (I’ll make this short), how can you dislike something so perfect, pure, and natural? I adore math =) (mind you, I don’t plan on entering mathematics or the sciences, and I did NOT apply to RSI). Math, at its core, is a beautiful puzzle. I’ll stop justifying my username now.</p>
<p>P.S. I don’t see any new entries into the race for the Uber-HB #2 of TASPlicant-Comedy!</p>
<p>Haha. Uh. Sciences and maths are my favorite…</p>
<p>I’m a reeeeeeeeeject.</p>
<p>haha. I’m totally a science and kind of math person… but I also love (some) humanities stuff.</p>
<p>I’m crazy about everything. I can never find enough time to study history, all the social and cultural trends, to study English and maximize my efficiency within a flawed language representation system and just try to communicate effectively, to study science, the rational and logical approaches that gradually provide us with clues to a larger and grander scheme of life, to study math, the representation of ideas into symbols that enable amazing accomplishments and predictions, to study language, the origins of a word and all the emotion and historical implications associated with it…</p>
<p>I like the sciences and humanities. I feel like an overcommitted high schooler who doesn’t have time to actually study what she wants to. And I love the arts, especially music and dance, plus I’m interested in creative writing. And theater. And film. And visual arts.</p>
<p>Oopsy.</p>
<p>I too love everything. I really don’t suck at math in practice; I’m just slow. I never had the math base I should have: I’m in honors precal right now (doing well) but I never took Algebra II, Trig, or Geometry. It’s been difficult all around.</p>
<p>I like history because it’s like reading a bizarre story THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Ancient history (which in my opinion in 16th century down, lol) is like reading a fantasy story. If you read about the middle ages it really was like Monty Python’s holy grail. That’s how weird it was. I really like that. Also, it’s really easy to understand why the peopple in power did what they did. Behind every big history-changer is a personal offense, it seems. Turns out the War of the Roses was really triggered by the Yorks being ****ed off that the king regained his sanity and took his power back. If that’s not human, what is?</p>
<p>I also love art because I can shut my mind off. My mind is always ticking, no matter what. I went to a pop concert and the entire time I couldn’t just enjoy the music; I had to wonder how they did that special effect, how they recruited dancers, the economics of the show, etc. I’ve chilled out a lot since then, but when I’m filing wax or setting a stone, my mind feels more at peace. The same is for reading. When I read I feel calmer and more unified. It’s hard to feel unified junior year… T_T</p>
<p>I sound like an incompetant Virginia Woolf. W00t.</p>
<p>I took the AMC 12 my sophomore year, and qualified for AIME. I didn’t do that great on the AIME, but I did do pretty well for my school and the only student who scored ahead of me was an ubergenie.
Wow. I never talk about this stuff. I feel kind of stuck-up now. Not that you guys are stuck-up-- you’re just talking, and god knows, for CCers, you don’t talk about accomps much at all. But I still feel stuck-up now.</p>
<p>Nah, you don’t sound stuck up at all. Most of us on this particular thread are actually self-depricating. It probably comes with the territory.</p>
<p>I found ANOTHER error in my essays, without even looking! I wish I didn’t notice this, lol, but I wrote another author name incorrectly, and I noticed because he wrote the blurb for a book a just started. BUT I got the publishing date correct. >_>;;; This sort of error is deeeefinately a pattern of mine. I do it in spanish too. I will half-conjugate the verb and then randomly give it the wrong ending, even though I catch its irregularity. Bah.</p>
<p>If it was your book list that doesn’t really matter.</p>
<p>If only it was in my booklist.</p>
<p>Ehh. Sorry Iris.</p>
<p>They aren’t that evil. They wouldn’t just be like, “gosh another typo, kids these days.”
You ave a good what 10+ pages of essays you wrote, a few proper name misspellings and an extra comma is minor.</p>
<p>Yeah, seriously, I doubt that will be the deciding factor on your admission.</p>
<p>I just woke up from a really long nap and the first thought that came to my mind was, is it March yet?</p>
<p>haha. I’m actually feeling pretty “chill” about it… not sure why.</p>
<p>Well, it’s pretty cold outside. o_o;;</p>
<p>Only six days until I leave for Spain! Woo! However, it’s finals week next week…</p>
<p>Spain?? Awesome.</p>
<p>Today is my birfffday. :)</p>
<p>Happy birfffffday!!!</p>