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hi… Been a while. Let’s just write stuff down now, shall we? Productive things Actually won the philosophy award! Applied to NC Chapel Hill, MIT, Rutgers, Georgia Tech, UIUC, and Ohio State Lots of essays… and self-reported coursework… and recommendation requests… Applied for Ohio State Eminence scholarship Did a sh*t ton of problem sets Met up with Prof. Assadi again Committed to AIME Prep Randomly signed up for the USACO training thing that Amy showed me Finally ordered t-shirts! Got 4th place in PClassic !!! Tied in # of correct submissions with the 3rd place team, but had more penalties than them (see the table at the bottom) Tried to get the Halloween Math Meet going, but COVID restrictions made us decide to cancel Oh, there was this Start Strong Testing thing in the beginning of October I submitted, like, one problem to the Cyber Futures contest, and I don’t think it was accepted because it was probably past the deadline on the 15th Met with Ethan for exactly one Green Generation practice test AMC 12A and 12B Visited COS226 (Allen/Jason visited COS487 in turn) Ended MP1 Maybe not so productive things Went to a couple of houses for trick-or-treating Tried to visit Sreemayi’s class for her birthday, but COVID restrictions Went out to eat a fair amount of times; most recent was at the Vietnamese place with most of the scioly captains Was slightly awkward, but the food was good, I think Went out to walk at the trail afterwards Visited Krause a lot of times, and I TA for Z Watched all seven Harry Potter movies (again) Shourya seemed to enjoy them Sreemayi is reading the Sorcerer’s Stone! Pinni gave us HP bookmarks; I have a bunch of Voldemort bookmarks now I also read the entirety of the Half Blood Prince because Shourya got it from the library (without reading the first five books??) About reading; I reread the first two Divergent books, which was interesting Yesterday we also watched Aladdin when Babai/Pinni/Sreemayi when they came over for Thanksgiving dinner Was quite interesting, actually, to actually sit at the table together for Thanksgiving Got the chance to think about things I can’t think about when I’m playing ketchup Top of PClassic ranking table: Team Name Username Score Penalty School 1 Calcoholics radiantcheddar 8 9 Brandywine High School, The Charter School of Wilmington 2 Floofers zaxwellmen 7 7 Stuyvesant High School 3 sag tree lazy prop a gaters lazy_sag_tree 6 2 Henry M. Gunn High School 4 /[spin]*s/ spinstars 6 7 West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North

hello there Very much has been happening very quickly, and I’m sure I’m going to forget something I did in these past two months that past-me would be angry I left out. Productive things Chose Princeton courses And yes, they started Managed to take COS487 :) Actually made some friends there? And yes, actually submitted all hw on time (so far, hopefully forever) Met with Prof. Assadi Still have to finish that writeup And email again Finished all summer hw (well, almost, not the secondary book for Lit yet) Did the APUSH summer hw qusetions in one night ;-; Finished SANS Access until October 31 Signed up for Cyber Futures Still use journal but not as extensively Submitted Paradox and Infinity submission(s!) Submitted National Merit Scholarship semifinalist documents or whatever Involves actually writing an essay Got permit! Did Science Olympiad tryouts Filled out general Common App questions and specific college questions, but not any essays CS Club started Has over 90 members now? So far? Oh, did a college essay bootcamp in August, was interesting Started Numbers Don’t Lie around that time Oh and was pronouncer for Nationals Did some random interesting things Maybe not so productive things Chaitanya Uncle left, and I got to meet his daughter who is very adorable Went to a college visit trip which was very massive and awesome Shortly after stood in DMV line for around 3 hours (2 of which were outdoors in the sun and heat) to get permit Am driving around to school and Princeton which is very cool Sometimes eat lunch with other Princeton kids (only twice now, both on Fridays) Somehow got convinced to do scioly Probably won’t get to be on actual team but whatever Am entirely very surprised with how much I got done these past two weeks Chose to do CJLH for Halloween Still no bike repair We played basketball yesterday because it was a bit warmer, but someone was draining their swimming pool so there was a river under the hoop, and the ball kept splashing in there, it was very funny And yes, got to meet everyone again, and I love it Anni usually drives me to school Unfortunately I don’t do yoga in the mornings anymore I hope this will change, but…

hi Hi. Productive things Uploaded proof of vaccine to netID Wrote 6 essays Not all of them are good, but brainstorming is happening! Finished sketching result and Zelke lower bound Started on summer homework Finished Never Let Me Go Started the first chapter for APUSH Started SANS again Started yoga in the mornings Did Art of Debating again Started writing in journal extensively Maybe not so productive things Chaitanya Uncle arrived Now more people play basketball in the evenings? Babai came yesterday too Found out the front wheel of my bike is flat (again) Am sleeping a bit earlier Hopefully this lasts! Sabrina finally DMed me about the TSA email

Hi again Only a month until school… Productive things Did the rest of the lecture Over two days Talent show! Recorded Pachtaoge with Disha Was a massive procrastination fest But very fun! 100% worth it Figured out notes for the first time in a while Went to most PACT lectures for Group II Went to everything after first lecture except for last Friday evening(Vihan) Freewrote a bit Nothing very important, but it helped to just write Maybe not so productive things Went to four different places five different times over three days and spent at least 2 hours at each place Puja (very long!): Friday afternoon/night Manabadi photoshoot: Saturday morning Another “puja” (ended up just being Reenu, Nikhi, and I hanging out with/without Milo because I arrived late): Saturday noon-evening Baby shower?: Saturday night (also at Babai-Pinni’s house) Dinner: Sunday late afternoon-night (with Sanju and Sidharth) Consequently got sick No idea what it is Had to cancel lecture on Tuesday and reschedule to Thursday Apparently I had to have a coughing fit in the middle of lecture Thursday :( Was bad first two days and then got better but it hasn’t gone away yet ;-; So yes, I unfortunately had to sing on a sore throat Talked about very random stuff after lecture Lifted basketball hoop! Guacamole recipe: 1/2 Avocado A bit of onion (chopped) Some lemon (squeezed) A sprinkle of cumin Salt Drew this: ...

I’m a bit late this time Oh, well. Productive things Did a lecture on Tuesday :D Only got through half the material ;-; But it was very fun Started on college essay brainstorming! Began by taking walks (Disha’s advice) Got my first 100% in Paradox and Infinity Accepted into MPFG :D Hotels were booked super fast NC Scholarship sent an email out about prizes Finally got back to Laura and Dave They didn’t reply back yet Filled out Option II form For a CS course, better luck Maybe not so productive things I can’t believe that I didn’t mention the TSA application last time. ...

I’m back again Good! Productive things Finished reading AD21 and revising writeup, starting on first research question Started attending Foundations Academy, which is actually pretty hype Date is set for PACT lecture College list is pretty much finalized Have been pretty consistent with Paradox and Infinity Not so much with the other course Finished sending recommenders the forms Maybe not so productive things Spent basically the entire weekend with Varun Mamayya and Siri Atta Watched movies Played cards Played video games (Trials Frontier, Shark-eating game, Celeste (!!)) Went on a hike Played basketball (at our house) Drew Met with CS Club Arrived 30 minutes late ;-; but it was fine Ate pizza, Allen brought Snapple Wrote out addresses on envelopes to mail out the stickers

I’m getting the hang of this Let’s hope I don’t jinx it. Productive things Met with advisor, finished a writeup on results from RSW18 Still need to complete reading AD21 Went to Strogatz award ceremony Tried sticking to schedule but failed because it takes way too long to read papers Wrote emails to recommenders Started Paradox and Infinity Started some other philosophy course Maybe not so productive things Went to Babai/Pinni’s Went to Jhopri’s with Amy after the ceremony Then went to the park with Anni Then ate boba ice cream, which was SO GOOD Watched a whole ton of Big Shot Watched Ant Man and the Wasp

A streak of 2 The first time I updated, it was 6/2, and now it’s 6/20… APs are over, HSCTF is over, Phi Day is over. Junior year is over. Summer has started. Things are boutta change. Productive things: Finish New Horizons Can’t wait to review the material B) Finish all APs They went okay, I guess HSCTF grading, message-board, nrc, zkp Did some infra, but there’s a whole lot I’ve gotta know for next time CS Club VP 2021! Phi Day Math Meet Literally started the Thursday of. The meet was on Saturday. Still made 40 problems, still hosted the meet, IT WORKED OUT There were errors in 3 of the questions. Finished Junior Year And all assignments with it :> Made a tentative plan for the summer Maybe not so productive things: Went to JProm. Had fun B) Ended up going to Macy’s for the dress, and spent a whole lotta time there Ended up wearing a different dress (ordered online), but both were cool The food was eh. Clearly cheap, but tasted good… Balanced dolphin after Phi Day (with Amy and Priya) Watched Luca Watched Senior Graduation! (with Allen and Jeremy) Watched Interstellar in Physics

Yeah, it’s my first update. Things I’ve done in the past week-ish: Productive things: Start the end of physics C prep. Start attending New Horizons. (It’s more than halfway over ;-;.) As a result, get pulled into way too many cool CS topics. This time, there is an actual doc with links. Start the Sans Foundations course. Clean. up. my. room. Maybe not so productive things: Actually meet people this weekend! Still haven’t gotten the dress.

Hi :) My name is Shreya. This is probably going to be my personal site. We’ll see. Goals Make a portfolio-over-the-years. Update regularly with what I’ve been working on. Attribution This site is made using Hugo and its PaperMod theme! Legend goes that I looked at 3b1b’s Manim documentation and loved its design. Obviously I have to start clicking on things to find more about this piece of code, so I came across Pradyun’s website, and loved this design too. At this point I was kind of mind blown that there were really themes I thought were sleek and actually usable, so I zoomed over to Hugo, and a day later, here we are. ...