brrly babbles!!

guys i don't know why i'm so nervous right now but i think it's because i just got a message saying i am now co social media director for this nonprofit that focuses on bridging the gender gap in competition mathematics and it made me reminded that i really really REALLY need to lock in if i want to qualify for AIME this year and get into PROMYS. if u have no idea what either or those are then i will update u because i love to babble as you can tell by the numerous blog posts i have posted.  every year, the mathematical american association administers the AMC 8, 10, and 12. it is a math test that is much much harder than your normal highschool math test, simply because it requires so much creative and analytical thinking that is typically not taught in highschool. in fact i scored very badly on the amc 10 this year and that is also due to the fact that i did not study much this year but i still did pretty badly. also the time crunch was another thing. also i have been revi...

hello everyone! i know i already posted a blog post today about some math proofs book i'm reading but i wanted to post another one about how i'm currently feeling in life because i feel like i have changed a bit over the past few months!!! first i really want to talk about ap testing because i am very happy about that and then i will just talk about my life in general and how i am feeling! in my past blog posts i've been talking about the mass amounts of stress that have been bringing me down and making me very not happy!!! i don't know when this stopped happening but it was around a month and a half ago and let's just say i am so glad i am not super super stressed anymore. i haven't been super mad in a while and when i am it's just annoyance and it goes away in a bit. it's also usually when i'm trying to solve some hard math problem. actually it's always when i'm trying to solve a hard math problem i don't really get mad any other time. ...

hello everyone!!! today i finished my very first videogame and let's just say the process took quite a while but it was all worth it in the end because i have gained so much experienced in game development and i also have lots of motivation to continue making videogames!!!  i made the game with my english group for a research project on the topic of world war 1 and we chose to specifically research the lives of farmerettes and how the war affected women. our game was called farmerette and centered around our main character whose husband died in battle and wrote a journal full of entries addressed to her. instead of having the husband send letters to his wife he wrote journal entries because letters were heavily censored and we wanted to communicate the truth and horror of the war to be through the game anyways i did a majority of the coding except once part which was clicking through the journal but otherwise i did everything for the coding aspect of the game and i am very proud of...

hello everyone! this brrly babbles post marks the beginning of a series of blog posts about a math book that i'm reading AKA how to prove it!! i want to learn how to read and write mathematical proofs because i love math and i want to do more with math and in the future i will probably major in something very math-heavy like physics or just math itself so i might as well get ahead while i can! also i have practically nothing to do at home for math homework because i complete it all at school when i don't feel like paying attention during class. ANYWAYS enough babbling let's get into chapter 1.2 which is truth tables!!! i am very confused on this one example so i'm writing out my thoughts on this blog so i can sort them and eventually understand the example because i cannot wrap my head around this until i get it out into some coherent sentences!!!!! the example is basically about drawing conclusions based on information that we already know while using logical connectiv...

hi everyone!! its currently 1:11 am and i should probably be sleeping cus i need to fix my sleep schedule for school but it's whatever. i've been doing math practically all day and i also played a little bit of video games but wow guys it took me so long to do the review sheet for my final cus i forgot practically everything. it's not like i can't solve the problems i just take a little longer to do them cus i haven't been doing some of these problems for a while. it's okay tho i did like 50 problems today.  i didn't really study any chemistry which makes me a little sad since my final is on wednesday and i really want an A on it to prove to myself that i am in fact not stupid. i think i know how i need to study for chem now tho cus i've been writing my review stuff on my whiteboard for chem and it really helps me connect all the concepts together when i see it on a whiteboard together. like my notes are helpful but the information from each set of notes...

HEY GUYS i haven't posted a blog post in a while but i am here to update you all with my life because i feel like my friends don't really share the same interest in whatever topic i want to talk about most of the time so to get out my words, i shall write them in this blog post!! anyways, the title does not implicate what you think it does. i am not going to college. i am literally a highschool sophomore. BUT i really want to go to college. i want to have freedom over my schedule instead of going to school for 7 hours a day. im grateful for my education but at the same time, i wish school was more interesting and that i learned...more??? i don't know i'm not trying to be cocky or anything cus some of the topics that i learn in ap chem are kinda hard to understand (for me at least), as well as math and sometimes comp sci. IDK i guess i'm just impatient and wish we could get to the hard stuff when we're going at this pace so i can build a strong foundation BEFORE ...

hey guys so erm i cried today so that says a little something before i get into what my score is but anyway when i got my test back i got 4 more points (last time i got a 21/29, this time i got a 25/29) than i did last time on the mcq but the thing is........two of the questions that i got wrong this time, i got them right last time. the test retake was the exact same as the first test we took so i literally got the same question right the first time i took the test and then got it wrong LIKE HOW DID THAT EVEN HAPPEN and like if i had gotten those two right i would have gotten a 93% on the mcq!!!!!!!!!!  i started crying when i got back to my seat and a couple of my friends were around me so they saw and it was embarrassing and it wasn't like dramatic ass crying i was just upset that i had messed up like that and i was so close to an A without extra credit. overall i got a 29/34 (w/o extra credit, with extra credit i got a 32/34) which isn't a bad score but i would have gotten ...

hello guys i had a bad day today and i need to study for a math quiz but i literally physically cannot do anything right now because i just want to go to sleep and never wake up again but i need to remember some formulas because i kind of forgot them over winter break so im writing this blog post to motivate me and also to write down the formulas double angles: sin:  1. 2sincos cos: 1. 2cos^2 - 1 2. 1 - 2sin^2 3. cos^2 - sin^2 tan: 1. 2tan/1 - tan^2 half angles: sin: 1. + or - sqrt(1+cos/2) cos: 1. + or - sqrt(1-cos/2) tan: 1. + or - sqrt(1+cos/1-cos) 2. 1+cos/sin 3. sin/1-cos okay thats enough of trig cus i just wrote down the formulas from memory and repeated the ones i got wrong and i think ive got it so thats all for trig anyways i am so stressed guys its so bad im so irritable at everything and anything and it makes me feel like a bad person for wanting to lash out on everything and anything including the people i love and i cant focus on what i want to focus on aka school and...