New Inanimate Insanity Episode

Yep. I watch object shows. My Little Pony isn't the only animated cartoon I watch :)


Anyways, despite the title and the episode being on my blog, I'm not going to spoil anything, even though I'm pretty sure nobody here actually watches object shows. As such, I'll talk about yesterday, because I was too tired to blog.

So basically, I asked to grade an easy Geometry proof problem for HMMT, and that's what I got. I did not realize that in terms of grading, "easy geo" is basically an oxymoron.

What ended up happening was that everybody got split up into groups, and by 5:00, every single grader was working through #3 (the easy geo problem). I mean, the intended solution wasn't too hard and there was one alternate method that was even more elementary than the intended solution. The problem is when people get two lines away from completing an elegant proof... and then spend another two pages trig bashing :/

Speaking of geometry, I should probably learn how to Bary bash at some point. Oh, and apparently, moving points are a thing, so better add that to my bucket list of stuff :)


Eventually, everybody who was grading all of the other problems migrated over to grade ours, and I guess this is why nobody was that keen on putting Geometry in a proof competition. Grace Tian, Holden, and basically all of the Problem Czars chipped in for the six hour slog.

Would I do it again? Probably :) Geo is fun, even if there's not really a way to make it easy to grade (thx a lot, however wrote submission #260).

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

RSA, Exponents, Mods, a Giant Firehose of 6.042

Image
Well, Grace said that for her 6.042 Cryptography lecture, they spent one hour on Caesar Shift, and then crammed all of the other more complicated encryptions into the last 30 minutes of lecture. Well, that didn't really happen, since we had to review stuff (FlT, Euler's Totient Function, etc.), but it certainly felt that way today. After basically snoozing for much of Induction, Invariant, State Machines, and Modular Arithmetic lectures, this one definitely felt like a firehose of content in those last thirty minutes. (stole this from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/8-lessons-learnt-drinking-from-mit-fire-hose-takunda-mutee) To be honest though, this firehose was quite refreshing for me. This lecture was basically what I imagined MIT to be like when I got here, scribbling down stuff, barely keeping up but it's not so ridiculously crazy that I don't know what's happening for the entire hour and a half. There's a sweet spot in how fast classes go, and I actually re...
Read more

Brain Dump

Image
 Bruh... this has been an absolute hell of a week, so much that the last time I posted was four days ago... I'm going to pretend that I have troubles logging into my account to blog and not that I was too busy or was suffering from writer's block. And to be fair, this was the first thing that I saw when I logged into Blogger: That aside, I guess I'll just do a brain dump this time because I have nothing in particular that I have to write about. [A brain dump , according to Mr. Gartland (my APHuG teacher), is when a student doesn't know what to write about on an FRQ and just starts writing, everything they know/think into a giant blob of messy writing.] First off, my essay for 24.900. Yeahhhhh.... that was a rough one. Despite starting the required reading a week before it was due instead of a day, I still ended up staying til 6 AM writing it. Thankfully, since I have a 6.042 midterm tomorrow/today, recitation was optional, so I didn't have to wake up til 11:40 AM. F...
Read more

Playing Depression Quest

Image
         Before I start my blog today, I will warn you that may or may not be discussion about mental illness, which may be a heavy topic. Proceed at your own discretion.           Yesterday, Grace mentioned Depression Quest  as a game she had to play for her CMS HASS class, among a bunch of other games I don't remember. Depression Quest  is the one name I remember, mostly because the topic of depression is quite a heavy one (especially considering my aspiring major is Course 6-9). I actually ended making my persuasive speech for last semester's HASS class on depression awareness, so you can probably tell that depression (and mental illness in general) is of at least some importance to me.         One of the things the game claimed to have in its full version, however, is a much more surreal presentation of what it feels for somebody with depression, including both change in photo color and statick...
Read more