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Schedule for the day<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the morning, once I woke up and danced, I went upstairs to fold my laundry (that I washed yesterday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Classes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The first class of the day was manipulation and bounding, from VW<\/strong>, in which he essentially showed us troll ways of solving problems that made us all groan. It was quite interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second class of the day was linear algebra and polynomials 2, from RZ<\/strong>. I feel like I\u2019ve definitely become more comfortable with linear algebra after her classes. We were working with Nikodym sets. It was a continuation of the previous linear algebra class, so we used null space and the rank-nullity theorem to prove that the size of such a set is at least cn<\/sub> pn<\/sup> for some cn<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During lunch, someone was asking me about DC Live and if he would be able to get into it. I was like, almost definitely, lol, considering you\u2019re a MOPper and therefore very very good at math. I decided to go and ask Po<\/strong> about it because the guy was still sort of unsure. So I went up to Po<\/strong> and stood there awkwardly for a while, as he was talking to the people at his table, and waited for him to finish talking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, Po <\/strong>looked up at me, glanced at my expression, and just went, \u201cOh no.\u201d Before I could say anything, he said, \u201cWhatever it is, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was kind of funny, honestly. I asked, \u201cWhat? Why?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he was like, \u201cI can tell you want something.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I was like, lol, your first reaction to me asking something is saying yes, good to know :P.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, then, he started telling everyone about DC Live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked him why he didn\u2019t post about it to the MOPpers on the MOP discord. He said he didn\u2019t want to misuse his position of authority or something, so he didn\u2019t want to advertise about it on the MOP discord. Because he didn\u2019t want to post, I decided to do it for him :P, so I went and posted a post about DC Live in the general channel of the discord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, during lunch, RW<\/strong> gave me one of the many origami turtles they\u2019ve been making! (I still have it <3)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Test 4 and Frisbee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After lunch, we took Test 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the test, I once again wrote a story for problem 1 about\u2026I really don\u2019t know what, in all honesty. It was really just word vomit. Apparently, the country of Asdfghjkl had long been in turmoil until, embroiled into a Civil War, tremulous union was broken? Asdfg and Hjkl wen their separate ways, both sides filled with resentment and hatred towards the other. Then, something about an underground bunker later, some spy or something got lost and had to figure out the way out, which somehow turned into the geometry problem? I’m not really sure, I wrote that page in less than ten minutes, possibly less than five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the test, we played (ultimate) frisbee. I initially went with them so I could take pictures, but then I started playing with them, too. I was very very bad, but it was also quite fun. The people who played were DX<\/strong>, IZ<\/strong>, LZ<\/strong>, MK<\/strong>, and VT<\/strong>, along with JC<\/strong>, KWu<\/strong>, and AZ<\/strong>, along with JW<\/strong> and I. JC<\/strong> was very good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JC<\/strong> was so kind as to give me the hat as we played frisbee because it was getting too hot and he didn\u2019t want to wear it. Geez thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was incredibly delighted (I was like, wow, thanks!) for a moment and then I realized I didn\u2019t actually want to wear it while running around, either, and also it was damp and therefore disgusting because he was sweating, so I just put it down on my backpack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, as he was catching a frisbee, his keycard fell out of his pocket, so I put that in his hat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, after we finished playing frisbee, I decided to keep the hat. He was sad and tried to get it back, but I stuck my ponytail through the hole in the back and kept it :P.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

After that, we went to dinner. Then, we went to an improv class for all of MOP outside of Tepper. It was quite fun. Since we had so many people, we split into two groups. My group kept using olympiad problem references and saying \u201cI lost the game.\u201d It was funny the first few times, but by the end of the class, it became sort of insufferable. I noticed that VinL<\/strong> and DiaL<\/strong> were standing with the other group, so I went over and joined them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that point, LR<\/strong>, who was in our group, also found us too dull, so he also snuck into the other group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the activities we did were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n