day one

well

here we are

we survived the first day of camp

yay? nay.

So in math, tbh I was expecting more from the students here. In my class, there are like 50-60 people in total so they split the big room into 6 smaller rooms comprised of 8-9 students each. I had to introduce myself three times today lol. 

What the coordinators resorted to was to have the teacher give the whole class a problem when we're all in the big room, then split us into these small groups and we work as a team to solve it. 

The sad thing is my group doesn't have any geniuses to do all the work so literally, I'm the only one talking in the zoom meeting and explaining to a kid that the two circles in the problem arent the same circle. I mean there was this one other kid that was actually kinda decent, he saw two isosceles triangles that I missed but after he solved that he acted all high and mighty and didn't help with the rest of the problems. ugh. 

The problems weren't thaaaaat hard but it was enough to make me not want to do them if this whole thing weren't for a grade. And yes, we are being graded on our performance in class. We even receive a report card that carefully writes to the detail about how we do in every single class every single day. So yea gotta work hard. 

Ok now moving on to my favorite class of the day and probably the favorite class of the entire camp (even though there are only three classes in total cough cough), BUSINESS! yay! We did our introductions again, of course, and the teacher gave a rough outline of how the class would be functioning for the next two weeks. 

So basically the class is made up of 28 people exactly, and that's how the developers designed it to be. There can't be a person more or a person less. This is because they need to split the class into groups of 7, which means there are four teams. 

The teacher then explained some roles that will be in the team, each member will have a C-Suite role. What are C-Suite roles you ask? Well, very simple, CEO, CFO, COO, CMO, CSO, CTO, CHRO, and there are a bunch more of em. I belong to team one, and apparently, no one in my team cares what position they get so I get to be CEO, boom, score, and I also assigned all the rest of the roles in my group. 

We haven't really come up with what we want our company to do yet so we don't have a name for it either, hmm, maybe I'll think of something tomorrow. 

Oh right, and then comes the final, most torturous class of them all, USACO introductory. Now the name may sound a bit softer than it actually is because of the "introductory" part but I'm telling you this course ain't meant for kids who have absolutely no knowledge of the topic. 

I mean, today our homework is to write a program that will sort three numbers in order from least to greatest. Yea sounds easy right, hahahah you don't know how wrong you are. I wrote a program for that in python but that was after like at least three weeks or a month or learning it. And this is the first day!!!!! 

So yea, I haven't even started the homework yet and I also have math homework. two proof problems still yet to be cracked so I gotta go to bed and get up early cuz I still have homework left to do. wish me luck