10th Grade

This year (2021-2022) was definitely an easy academic year. I also decided to self-study AP Statistics and take the SAT along with my normal academic coursework to make things a little more challenging. The beginning of the year was definitely a huge change from remote schooling. I made friends and became acquainted with classmates, school was a lot more social. This year I chose fewer clubs to be involved in, compared to last year, only Math League (in which I was an officer) and Robotics. Since I was an officer, I created a new math league participation leaderboard (tinyurl.com/AITMathParticipation) and some new competition math practice presentations. I was also obligated to go to all of the math club meetings we had such as Math Madness, NJML, CJML, and other meetings. This time the AMC was in November so I didn't have much time to prepare for it and I didn't get a very good score. 

Then near the end of the second marking period, I began using my free time to do SAT prep to prepare for my test in December. I was aiming for the 1550+ range so I was disappointed when I received my score, 1480 (I also took the PSAT but it wasn't very significant) but it still was a really good score! Then over winter break, I tried to teach myself all of the AP Statistics coursework. I didn't completely finish but the extra two weeks of "break" helped out and I planned to finish during Spring Break. 

Then the third marking period started, probably the toughest one, it wasn't too difficult academically but I had to do a lot of projects. In school, I had the American Dream Research Project in English, some Spanish Presentations, CSP coding projects, and a history project. Also, Robotics Build Season started so I also had to work on programming the robot. This year I did a lot of work for the Robotics team, I coded three subsystems, created PathWeaver paths, and tried working on some Limelight vision applications. Our team did fairly well this season and I went to a bunch of our competitions. While this was going on, I decided to take the SAT once more in March, so I began preparing for that as well. In March I did better, I got 1510, but I still wasn't near my dream score. By this time I decided that I should focus on AP prep, so I did a bunch of AP Statistics practice tests and frqs. After the exam, I felt confident in how I did. The other exams were a breeze and hopefully, I get 5s in all of them. UPDATE: I did 

After this, I was told that I qualified for ARML, so I began doing some more competition math prep. As I began practicing, I realized that I probably wasn't going to do very well at ARML. I knew that there were a lot of exams and projects coming up, since it was near the end of the year, and I probably shouldn't spend a lot of time trying to get better at competition math. So I decided that I would go to ARML to have fun, and indeed it was fun. I really enjoyed going to Penn State, exploring the campus, and listening to a guest lecture by Po-Shen Loh. It was a great experience and I will probably try to get better at competition math to ensure I get to go again next year. 

All in all, this year was pretty great. This year was full of fun and new experiences. Onward to 11th grade!