Not Me Listening To This Amazing Streets Edit While I’m Taking My SAT Test 

august 30, 2021

Hello guys! This semester has been pretty amazing for me so far! I’ve stuck to my goals and I’ve been working on my homework ahead of time and I’m not backlogged at all! It feels so amazing ^-^. I’ve also been using my Notion page well, and it’s been immensely helpful in helping me organize my homework and my life in general :’). I’ve also been steadily chipping away at college apps, and today I’m gonna force myself to actually start on my personal essay and not just plan it endlessly ;-;. And last, but not least, I’ve finally planned out the plot for the fic I’m writing in a fest I signed up for!

30th August - What did you learn over the summer? (note: this doesn’t have to be academic-related)

I finally learned how to become an organized person lmao. And I learned how to effectively manage my time and energy, and it’s still working well now!

🌿27/06/2021

I was stressing out today morning about some maths stuff so decided to give myself a break and draw ^^

august 1-2

Hello! Here’s another sneak peek of my Notion school page! My courses for my senior year have finally come out an I got all of my first choices! I’m also very proud of my Notion page now bc the aesthetic is just *chef’s kiss*

Also I really want to list them out bc why not, so my courses for this semester are:

AP Calculus AB

Game Design and Simulation

Physics Core: Mechanics

Classical Myth: Epic and Tragedy

Financial Planning

Mentorship: Senior Mentorship I (which is basically a mentor/research program)

All of these are college level courses (except Physics, which is acc. honors, and Financial Planning, which is just a student life course). So yeah, I have a lot of work cut out for me, but I took even more courses in my junior year so I should be fine now tbh. 

And basically I go to a selective (the application was so hard T-T) public residential high school (although its only for 11th to 12th graders) that offers a lot of advanced courses, if you were wondering why I was taking so much college-level stuff. And yeah its pretty prestigious and all that shit bc the average SAT score of students there was like 1430 or smth, although I somehow managed to get in with a 1330 *-* but yeah I love ranting about my school, I could talk about it all day if someone asked ヽ(*ﾟｰﾟ*)ﾉ

1st August - What do you do when you go to the beach?

Lol the last time I went to the beach was when I was in ninth grade and it was part of a school trip so… idk really

2nd August - What do you like most about the beach?

To be completely honest, I just like walking on huge sand dunes barefoot and putting sand in my brother’s swimming trunks

Currently obsessed with..

I’m so tired today,Btw my august spread.

Happy August you guys ^_^

10/06/2021

I have my midterm exams going on. Today I had physics. It did go well. I am just unsure about one numerical problem 😅. Tomorrow I have an organic chemistry test. I am kinda prepared and hope it goes well too ^^. I did find some time for my group theory though🤭Aesthetic background and music with Group Theory felt like a bliss🌿

The video I was listening to was

I hope you are having a wonderful day ^^<3

Some beautiful libraries for your soul 🌟

25 II 2023

I had an exam yesterday, one more to go. it was the written part, so 12+ hours of solving problems, exhausting just like before. I completed all of them, but of course I am not sure if my solutions are correct, I will find out on monday. I'm proud of the progress I've made

right now I'm studying for the second part, so the theory-oriented one, I can barely focus because I've already learned those things and now I have to relearn them again

I'm trying to prove all the theorems on my own. partly to see how much I remember, partly to see how much I'm willing to improvize. as they say, if you're using too much memory then you're doing something wrong so I'm hoping to be able to come up with the proofs without memorizing anything new

my technique for studying the theory for the exam is to first test myself on how much I remember by trying to write everything down and note where I'm unsure or don't remember at all. then I read the textbooks starting from the worst topics up to the better ones. when I encounter a long complicated proof I am trying to break it down into steps and give each step a "title" or a short description

for instance, the Baer criterion featured in the photo has the following steps:

only do "extenstions on ideals to R→M ⇒ M injective"

define the poset of extenstions of A → M, A ⊆ B and a contrario suppose there is a maximal element ≠B

use the assumption to define an ideal and a submodule that contradicts the maximality of the extension

it is much easier to fill out the details than to remember the whole thing. this is probably the biggest skill I acquired this semester, next to downloading lecture notes pdfs of random professors I find online lmao

a friend suggested that I could make a post about tips for reading math textbooks and papers. as for papers, I don't have enough experience to give any tips, but I can share how I approach reading the books

a big news in my life is that I got a job. I will be a programmer and I start in march. at first I am going to use mostly python, but in the long run they will have me learn java. I'm excited and terrified at the same time, this semester is gonna kill me

I really want to get into math. What book do you recommend reading!

Great question! Here are some fun ones that are still informative and that really opened up my eyes to what math truly is:

How to Solve It  by George Polya. This is a classic and the title speaks for itself: it is about how to reason mathematically.

Hyperspace by Michio Kaku. This one is mathy and sciencey. It is very geometrical and shows how our view of geometry has changed throughout history and how it has influenced science. Kaku is my favorite author.

Proof and Refutations by Imre Lakatos. Another classic. This one has to do with how mathematical proof advances our mathematical knowledge, in other words what professional mathematicians do. It is also surprisingly funny.

Other recommendations?