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schedule for the day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Before Classes (SIAM Conference)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After I woke up (around 6, as usual), I went down into the lobby to dance (as usual) (probably around 6:30). Once I finished dancing, RW<\/strong>, EB<\/strong>, and EW<\/strong> came downstairs (around 7:30). They were going to a math (combinatorics) talk in the morning (the talk was from 8-8:45 am).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You see, this week, there\u2019s a math conference going on at CMU called the SIAM<\/a> Conference (SIAM does not stand for \u201cSleep in a mattress,\u201d as Po<\/strong> joked). If any of us particularly wanted to go to a talk, we were given permission to skip the morning classes to go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to go to the talk, as well, since I didn\u2019t really have anything to do in the morning, anyway. So I went upstairs to take a quick rinse and then came back downstairs (with my backpack full of stuff I needed for the day). By the time I came down, however, it was almost 7:50 am, and I still hadn\u2019t eaten! I didn\u2019t even know where the talk was<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I grabbed a few breakfast bars from the snack table and ate as I hurried to the talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I managed to get to the right building, eventually. The talk was in the McConomy Auditorium in Jared L. Cohon University Center. The speaker was on Zoom. I was late a few minutes, so I missed all the basic definitions she explained at the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The talk itself was also quite advanced, resulting in me understanding almost none of it. All I know is that it was presented by Julia Wolf, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom<\/em>, about \u201cIrregular Triads in 3-uniform hypergraphs.\u201d Whatever that<\/em> is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After the talk, we walked straight to class. RZ<\/strong> taught our morning class. It was on hat problems, so we basically spent the whole hour and a half doing variations of hat problems. It was a lot of fun! At some point, some of the boys were writing something very very complicated-seeming and looking very very smart doing it. Now, I\u2019m still not entirely sure what sort of thing they could possibly be writing about that could be so complicated with HAT PROBLEMS, of all things, but we girls saw it and decided to join in the fun 🤩. Note the angry wizard, Shakespeare hearts (the context for that is that AZ<\/strong>‘s phone case, as well as AGe<\/strong>‘s, contains a bunch of little Shakespeares with heart eyes. In fact, RW<\/strong>\u2019s friend started that, actually: she printed a bunch of Shakespeare cutouts, handed them out as stickers, and now there\u2019s basically a Shakespeare cult at their school.), the (🙂, 🙁) coordinates, the fishbowl by the poisson distribution, and the normal curve transformed into a turtle (next to the QED).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our incredibly intelligent work starring wizards and literary geniuses, through which we work on hat problems.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After the hat problem class, JLin <\/strong>sent a quiz<\/a> about recognizing all the MOPpers, so I tried to do it during the passing period between first class and Joel Spencer\u2019s talk. I think I got around 75%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joel Spencer Talk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Po<\/strong> talked about how Joel Spencer was incredibly inspiring and mentioned that he was basically the only reason Po<\/strong> started in math in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joel Spencer\u2019s talk was about the number of labeled rooted forests (proven using Pr\u00fcfer codes) and the number of labeled graphs containing only one cycle. The latter was essentially just a forest where the roots were in a cycle, so we could derive something from the first thing. I think he probably dumbed it down for us kids. The first half, which was focused on the labeled rooted forests, was rather easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end, he also talked about Paul Erd\u00f6s. He knew the man personally, even going to the extent of calling Erd\u00f6s \u201cUncle Erd\u00f6s.\u201d He said that Erd\u00f6s had a certain energy that made everyone around him better at math. He had the ability to figure out problems that were not trivial but also not absolutely impossible for people to understand. It was really interesting. Apparently, at some talk or other, Spencer introduced Erd\u00f6s and described Erd\u00f6s\u2019 Book (he claims there is a Book in which all the prettiest, most elegant proofs of all problems go) as something to do with God. Erd\u00f6s came onto the stage and immediately contradicted Spencer, pointing out that one can not believe in God but the Book would still exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lunch<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After Spencer\u2019s talk, we went to lunch at Resnik. However, apparently, Resnik was on fire, because when we got there, we couldn\u2019t actually go in. We were planning on leaving to go to Chipotle, but then, the fire apparently disappeared, so we went inside. And then the alarm started up again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that point, we completely gave up and headed to Chipotle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, once we reached Chipotle, we decided we didn\u2019t actually want Chipotle, apparently (btw, apparently, some MOPpers at Chipotle were talking about graph theory (due to the Spencer talk), and at the table right next to them<\/em>, a bunch of non-MOPpers were talking about the exact. Same. THING!<\/em>) (Also, apparently I say \u201capparently\u201d too much). Instead, we went one shop over, to Orient Express. There weren\u2019t very many people: only around ten. Mostly, we just weren\u2019t as chaotic as last time, so it felt like there were half as many people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 1:30-2:15, there was a SIAM Conference talk by Lisa Sauermann (MIT), about the Erd\u00f6s-Ginzburg-Ziv Problem. I have no idea what that is because I didn\u2019t go to the talk. According to Po<\/strong>, she was a past IMOer, so he recommended we go, but by the time we finished lunch, we were already going to be thirty minutes late, so we ended up not going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Test 3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At 2:30-7, we had Test 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right before the test, some of the boys were running around on the grass, chasing JC<\/strong> around to steal his hat. I thought this was very much fun, so I joined in! I stole his hat, as well, but he managed to get it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, as we sat in the testing room, I sat behind AZ<\/strong> who sat behind JC<\/strong>. They were sort of laughing at me, like, \u201cSophie you can\u2019t get the hat during the test, you know,\u201d and I was like, \u201cToo bad so sad, I want to sit here anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AZ<\/strong> was very interesting to sit behind. He sighs very loudly when he can\u2019t figure out a problem. Also, when he goes to the bathroom and comes back, he always walks past his seat a few steps and then realizes, oh wait, there\u2019s my seat! And rushes back to his seat. It\u2019s very amusing. It happened, like, three times, and it makes me wonder how he can keep forgetting where he sits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some other very interesting testing habits include KWu<\/strong>, who goes outside the testing room with paper and pencil and just works outside, because he thinks better when he can move, so you know that if he comes in three times, that means he swept the test :P. (Here at MOP, “sweeping” a test means you solved everything while being swept by<\/em> a test means getting nothing. Because, you know. Moppers. Janitors. Whatever) During test 1, I remember one time as I was going to the bathroom and coming back, I walked past someone who was jumping to touch the ceiling, and so I tried to do the same. I could not manage because I was too short, and they were like, \u201cYou can do it!\u201d It was rather funny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first problem on the test was something about equilateral triangles, and because I was bored, I decided to write a story about a triangular cape Red Riding Hood\u2019s grandmother made for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(At one of his storytimes, Po<\/strong> mentioned that he knew he wasn\u2019t the best at MOP but he tried his best to just be nice. He would solve the problems in ridiculous, convoluted ways to amuse the graders. I then decided that I\u2019m not actually good enough at math to solve them in purposefully ridiculous, convoluted ways because that requires the ability to actually solve them in the first place, so instead, I\u2019ll write an amusing story)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HM<\/strong> graded that test and found the story very amusing, so I got 1.0 style points on problem 1!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miscellaneous Evening Shenanigans<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

During dinner, I got my first ever wrong number text! They said something stupid, so I rickrolled them, and then it devolved into just trading memes. It was very difficult, considering I know no memes :P,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not absolutely stupid: I did not actually tell them my real name. I just said my name was \u201cLucas\u201d because I had Lucas\u2019s nametag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I actually went to test review today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 2:12 pm (the only reason I know this time is because after KS<\/strong> brought it up on the 16th, I wrote the time down)<\/em>, KS<\/strong> and I talked about JC<\/strong>‘s blog on AoPS (Eyed). I was saying that I was very incredibly impressed because he writes the exact times of many things on his blog. Like, he\u2019ll say \u201cI woke up at 7:14 am and did so and so, and then at 7:57 am I went to breakfast with so and so,\u201d and so on, and I was just very impressed by his ability to do this all. Kristie pointed out that he probably just looked at the time and remembered it. I was like, sure, you might look at the time when something happens, but you wouldn\u2019t actually remember it when writing your blog at 1 am!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JC<\/strong> was working on his primes report tonight because apparently, the first draft is due tonight. He sort of jokingly suggested I could help him fix his grammar. Now, the thing is I like<\/em> feeling useful, and grammar is basically the only way I can be useful because my math definitely is nowhere good enough to check the math, so I agreed. I think he was rather surprised I agreed, but it was decently interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, JC<\/strong> and MLu<\/strong> debated whether the mafia would win, and they decided that we might \u201ccuz y\u2019all are so nice and unassuming.\u201d Thanks, man. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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