yayy
I’m in Lex Gamma, and I’m probably the only person in the team (or maybe among everyone in LHS that came to HMMT this year) that has never competed in HMMT. Everyone in the team is way better than me tho, so I’m ready to be carried in team and guts round and drag the team down in individual rounds.
General Round
I did problems 1-6 and 8 and didn’t even look at the other problems. They announced the answers right after the test ended and I got 3 and 6 wrong which is like sad. I felt soo good when I remembered about the “15” case for problem 6 and thought that many people would probably forget about that one, but turned out that I forgot about the 195 case so I was like one off. I wouldn’t call that a silly though, as it’s my own skill issue, but I probably lost like 6 points because of this. At least I found the right pattern in problem 8 which is not too bad.
Theme Round
0 sillies in this round, but still bad
I only looked at 1-7, and 9 (because it’s combo) and didn’t know how to do 6 because I’m bad at geo. Turned out I spent too much time on 9, and didn’t really do it the right way. Although I solved 6 problems my distrib is like very bad, so I’m probably the lowest in the team.
Team Round
tnag carry orz
I probably didn’t do anything, except p1 p4 and maybe p8, which other teammates could probably have done quickly without me. We (tnag) also perfed teamround with like 5 or 10 minutes left which was nice. We ended up turning it in 30 seconds early maybe for bragging purposes, idk
And they posted the solutions on the HMMT website immediately after the teamround ended, and we ended up not sillying anything and getting a perfect score, tnag orz
Guts Round
alright this is when I really did absolutely nothing
We started pretty good in the first seven sets (perfect score on each), but we were a bit slow so we had to rush through the rest of the sets and unfortunately got 0 points in estimation. Still rank 10 which is like good compared to our scores in individual rounds lol.
Other
tnag went to int bee finals, tnag orz
I also went to both Friday night and the Sunday lectures because it’s my first time. On Friday I went to HackHMMT and unexpectedly met CorzdeTiger and Sunday stuff were interesting I guess?
Estimates
G 21.153, T 23.242, Total 44.395
G rk. 60, T rk. 60, Total rk. 70
I sold so bad :(
Let’s see how good an estimate of my score this is. I probably failed the M2 goal miserably
Aftermath
I turned out to be not too bad at predicting?
Results:
G 20.153, T 24.242, Total 44.395
G rk. 89, T rk. 44, Total rk. 65
Kinda happy that I did have something in top 50 but also kinda sad for being that close to top 50 in general and overall (well it’s not actually that close, but I just felt I was so dumb for forgetting about the 195 case)
At least I’ve finally achieved one of my goals.