We got No.2 St. Joseph's annual high school programming competition. No.1 get $500 for each teammate. OMG I wish I can get that money to cover my credit card debt.
No.1 and us are the only team to complete all problems. Had some really nice food.
MIT t-shirt and the PWNING NOOBZ headband.

Prize for been the lowest high scorer in math league. Epic fail -.-
Extreme Sports t-shirt. Math is an extreme sport.

Award for Journalism from Long Island Press High School Journalism Awards. Award for Format Buster... wonder what it is...
Evil grin. Have nothing to do with my "evilplanDoNotOpen" folder in my flash drive... or does it?...

So it seems, I'm more of a computer science person.

I define a perfect organism is the one can fit into almost any environment.
I believe a perfect organism is an organism have perfect control of itself and smart enough to use that ability.

I wish there are ways to improve the human body into a perfect organism.
With the invention on DNA & Protein computers and research on cloning and stem cells, I see some really cool stuff going to happen some day.

I imagined there are some virus infect each of my cell a certain DNA. Then the ribosomes work on the DNA create computers and microscopic machines. Soon it can establish connection with other cells. Each cell become it's own computational machine.

The the cells start to organize themselves and improving it's own internal structure, make it capable of doing many movements easily and fast. Like stretch the cell, emit certain amount of carbon, store w/e material.

If there is a huge computation required to be done. I can be spread out to each cell in the body and do it in parallel, even in my sleep.

Cells can even change their specific functions according to it's need.

The brain can control each single cell of the body directly. There is ways to search for specific cells. One can even tag their favorite cells so they can access it easily. For example, I store a copy of wikipedia in one of my cell. Some movies in another cell.

I can change my own shape!

Also if I only have part of my body, I can grow them back. But implant a cloned body part would be faster. Body parts can be cloned so if part of it loose function, a new one can be replaced. With the already powerful biomechnical cells, it will recognize the new body part and incorporate it back into the body in few minutes. Pro human cloning!

Humm, then I can arrange my cells so fast, if someone shoots me, I will create a hole in my body to let it go though. Or grow a exoskeleton... and digest it when I don't need it.

There will be both biomechanical cells and specialized non-bio cells for specific purposes, like there can be cells store specific chemicals. Those non-bio cells can be constructed by the small molecular machines.

I can use almost anything as energy. I can use the chemicals stored inside of me digest anything, and filter out the garbage, and store the garbage in the specialized skin cells that can falls easily. Or I can carry the garbage around, who knows when it will be useful.

It is all possible, but extremely complex. I believe one day some organisms will evolve to that stage, and become immortal.

Look at the Human sociality, doesn't it look like what I'm talking about? Humans are just like cells, they can make a lot of changes to the surroundings. When some part of the human sociality is lost, new ones can be generated. They can face devastating impacts, and knows how to counter against some of them.

Except, humans, can not be controlled easily.

Maybe when organism going into that huge complexity, part of them are not controllable.

My Predicted Score after I take those tests
AP Computer Science AB: 5
AP Statistics: 3 or 4
AP Calculus BC: 3 or 4
AP Chinese Language and Culture: 5

Mistakes I made before the test:

1. Chose to take AP Statistics because everyone in school tell me it is so easy. A week before the AP test, the same people are complaining how hard the materials are.
2. Start to study for the APs 1 week before it starts. Which leave me only 2 days to work on AP Calculus because AP Statistics used up more time than I expected. I only had chance to comprehend and master Calculus AB material, I did not have time to practice for the BC material.
3. Sleep Deprived
4. Did not made plan about special incidents. For example, I left a week for me to study. It would be enough and I could get 4 or 5 on the BC if unexpected events did not happen. I was forced to clean the lawn(total of 3 hours, enough for me to go over 2 sections and does all the practice questions for them). I cannot concentrate in school. After I realized that, I skipped school. but again, at least 3 hours was wasted due to school.
5. I did not get familiar with my TI 89. I'm using 83+ after it was returned to me all the time except 1 day before the test.

Mistakes I made during the test:

1. I eliminated answers and I'm suppose to guess one answer, but I tell myself to check back when I have time. I didn't have time so I didn't make the guess thats going to benefit me.
2. Not reading the question right
3. Did not recognize well known identities. For example, this is an variation of the AP Calculus BC question(I can't disclose the original one)
   What does this series converge to?
   
   This question took me over 1 minute.
   First, I recognize it's a Taylor series, but I remembered the Taylor series equation wrong(due to lack of sleep and little practice). When I recognize I got the Taylor series equation wrong, I found another way to look at it. I expressed it in the summation form
   
   and it's very familiar to me that
   
   not because of calculus, but because of the proof of Euler's identity.
   Of course, now looking at it, I should be able to recognize the all degree of derivative is always 1 means it must .

After Thoughts:

1. I should leave myself some more time to study
2. Don't just believe in what people(even if a lot people says that) say about something, I need to investigate myself.
3. There are always assumptions in my plan that doesn't work. I should give me some more space so even if some assumption was wrong, I still have enough time to finish it.
4. I'm still happy. At least I currently know how good I am.
   I know how hard is the AP calculus BC test. Since I know everything in the test, I know what exactly each question is talking about and I know what exact technique is required to solve it. The only reason I failed is I forget how to apply a technique(Euler's method. I did the day before hand), and I know how to apply a technique but I'm too slow(I forgot the formula for left Riemann sum and used some time to draw pictures and find the formula) and eventually make me chose to skip them and do the other ones instead.
5. Actually, for all of my math tests in US, I never study for them. I never practice for my math tests. I always just understand the material, and derive the formula during the test. I'm not the first one to finish math tests in my class because of that reason. AP Calculus BC is one of the test that make this technique fail. There is simply not enough time for me to derive all the formulas, the test covers so much material. Compare to normal math test I take at school, there is only 1 chapter each time, only 1 or so formula I have to figure out. I did fast and great on the ones where I remember the formula, and failed the rest.
6. Ads on Facebook is so retarded. Can't it figure out who is male or female?
   
7. Wow, check out the synonyms. Wiktionary have a long way to go...

Hope I get a 4 on calc.
Damn you Alex, you got a 5 on your freshman year!

For the past few days, I have been working on my AP test. I'm trying to get 5s on all my AP test despite I never took the course. The first AP test I'm taking is on May 6th.
I'm taking AP computer science AB, AP statistics, AP Calculus BC, AP Chinese[I am Chinese so I'm pwning this test like 90% of the test takers] and AP Chemistry.
I'm currently enrolled in AP Chemistry, so I have to study from the ground up for the 3 test left. I thought I can finish three college level course in a week, and it's not as easy as I thought, so I'm spending a lot of extra time these days, averaging 4 hours of sleep and the rest time is study.(I go to school but I don't listen in class... ever... the school is restricting my potentials)

Today, I didn't go to school. Catch up on my sleep and do more study.

I'm overwhelmed... but I still take the time to blog, because I saw a great post card, a very inspiring post card.

I eventually will die, if I can't handle the work load, I can never succeed. Then I will not just die, I would die in regret. Regretting why I didn't work harder on life, to get what I always wanted.

When people ask me why I chose to take so many tests when I never learned anything about it. I tell them the fake reasons I can think of:

I do APs for the lolz.

if I get all 5 after 1 week of study, that means AP test are overrated, and that would be an great newspaper commentary in our school newspaper. Also giving people hope that they can study the week before the test.

The AP calc test is the highest level of the standardized math test that I can handle right now1. I like to reach the climax of my ability, it's like a math orgasm.

But really, I'm doing it to prove something. Prove something to myself, not anyone else.
I want to know my capabilities--can I handle everything thrown at me?
People said I always do things that in the end screw myself. They are right.
I make many mistakes that work in the way I did not expected, and putting me in a worse situation than before. But, it's a great thing, getting screwed by my own choice.
Each screwing give me more knowledge about what I can handle, and I will not get screwed the same way again. I, as a person, learn and grow from getting screwed by own my decisions.

I also want to prove how much no-life I can get. I have to keep myself from having a life if I want to get into USAMO because I don't have talent, I can only work though hard work and hope people who have talent doesn't work as hard.

I am overwhelmed. But when I die, I can rest happily because I know I have never backed down from the overwhelming work. I did my best.

This Saturday I also have to take the SATs.
After the APs, I will have a 1 day rest, and I will start to work on math.
Taking ACT in June.
Expect this blog became very math oriented starting at June.

Hope this card inspires you too.

1. 1. GRE Mathematics Subject test is the climax of all standardized math subject test