June 9, 2022: Test 1

OS taught our first class, polynomial identities. EB thought that class was very cute! I such a cute mindset! I decided to sit with EB so that maybe that cute mindset could rub off. (I initially sat on the left side, where VH, CH, AGe, RW, and SL sat. On the right side of the room were two of the girls from TJ, MK and LZ, as well as EB and EW. And then there were also the other boys in Red who I didn’t pay as much attention to.)

Our second class was sequential number theory, taught by ZD. It was very big-brained. Around 11:55 pm, he let us off and said that he had formal write ups of the proofs for all his problems in Chinese. We all went up and took a picture of the proofs even though most of our Chinese is kind of terrible so that we can ask our parents to translate or something. Then we brought up off-handedly that there were still fifteen more minutes of class. When ZD realized this, he was like, “Let’s do problem three, then!”

After lunch, we took MOP Test 1. The test room is a huge auditorium in Doherty.

We were proctored by the TAs Turtle and MH today. By proctoring, I mean that Turtle and MH sat at the front of the auditorium and wrote down instructions (how to write your name and label the papers, amount of time left, etc.) on the huge chalkboards (they’re SUCH NICE chalkboards. There are six chalkboards that can slide up and down and up and down, from the high ceiling down to the ground.).

At the seventeen minutes left mark, MH started doing a countdown on the board, where every minute he would change the minute counter.

TIME LEFT: 0 hrs ___ min

I think many of the students finished working two or three hours into the test and the rest of the time they spent watching people go in and out of the room. So when MH started doing that countdown, many people found it very interesting.