Testing the Techniques

(Just as a PSA: The following makes as little sense to me right now as it probably does to you guys. This is more of an attempt at some personal workshopping than anything else, and I hope that such an act might help me better perform in life)     At the state Scioly tournament and, to put it bluntly, I am not doing well. I just did some test flights with Andrea, messed up some key stuff, and proceeded to both make her worry about her event and yell at me. Thinking on this, for it is my own fault, I shall proceed to write about something that I think bears notice to some of my more crazy ideas, and also the main part of myself that I need to utlise/control/push/discipline/understand in order to better mitigate a specific type of problem that I am having - one which I shall lovingly call “magical ignorance”.     This particular sort of occurence, where my partner(s) end up getting mad due to my own sheer incompetence, is unfortunately not new to me. Especially this year, I am und

1. Round 2 Paragraphs 2. Lit HW 3. Chemistry Revision 4. USNCO 1 5. USNCO 2 6. Physics Prep / Math Prep Thoughts:     While I have nothing in particular in mind for today's post, I do want to start a discussion on awards - in particular, awards that schools / people give. While I may not be the most qualified to talk about all types of awards, I want to put a special highlight on certain types of awards, namely those of the "popularity contest" variety. These types of awards, at least personally, seem like more of a cop-out and less "award-like" than others, as they rely on people knowing all that others do, a fact which is not always true.    Now, what do I mean by such awards? What are the characteristics of such awards? Well, to be specific, "popularity contest" awards specify a certain type of award which relies on some sort of voting process to elect someone getting an award. Now, the following is not meant to apply in all cases, for ce

No objectives for the past few days - haven't had much time to do too much due to college search. However, here is a quick post with some of my thoughts on something that I found rather interesting (although it is rather speculative in nature):    Over the last few days, I have really not thought too much about this, but here it goes. This topic is something that I honestly have wanted to talk about for awhile but, due to college stuff and other assorted stuff coming in the way, I haven’t made too much progress in this respect.   The tired introduction aside, I wanted to write this as the start of a series on my experiences in high school - in particular some of the things that I have realized that are a bit more particular to my own but, hopefully, will provide some benefit to anyone else. The first one in this series, this article, is on the difference between giving 100% and giving 101%. Enjoy!   --- Pause for some sense of dramatic effect ---    Now, mathemat