This year's Chiles Mini Mu wasn't boring at all. The questions were really easy (on the first test anyway). Deerlake Middle School was dominating! In every single Power Point slide for the awards, Deerlake was always either half or the majority.
The first test was a theme of "Ratatouille." It was pretty easy. The second test was harder. The theme was "The Incredibles." There were 30 questions, each correct answer is worth 5 points, a blank answer is 1, and an incorrect answer is 0. So, if you skip every single question, you can still get a score of 30. That's the way they grade it. The reason for that is so that there are no negative scores. On the first one, I skipped 6 questions and answered every other question. I got every question I answer correct. So, 24 times 5 is 120. I skipped 6, so 120 plus 6 equals 126. A 126 out of 150 is great for a Mini Mu competition. On the second one, I got a 4 wrong and 17 correct. I skipped the rest. I got a 94. I heard the lowest score for this session was a 97, so I was close to placing.
I have never won anything in any of the math competitions I've gone to. So imagine my surprise when they said "Come up if your name is on here," and my name was on the slide for the first session! They only give out ten awards for each category (4th and 5th grade, Pre-Algebra, Algebra, and Geometry). I got ninth place. At first I thought I was going to be in tenth place, but it turns out there was somebody who scored a 125.
It was really fun, and everybody was proud of me for placing. Math is not my strong subject.
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- Melisa
- I play the violin, and I am on a swim team. I can also ride a unicycle, and I'm on the math team and chess club at school. I like to spend time with my friends, and I try to be responsible, but I'm on the verge of a breakdown from excessive homework. I try to update my blog when I can, but like I said, my homework is bringing me down. But during summer break, expect me to post more. Or I might be lazy. Or busy from other things.
Notes
Things You Need To Keep In Mind:
-If you want to complain, complain silently or to yourself or like-minded others. Complaining all over the place can get you shunned by peers, or in trouble with the teachers.
-Don't put your phone inside your backpack. Get a little pocket to stick onto a shoulder strap. Otherwise, you'll just spend 20 minutes walking all over the school looking for it when it was buried under your books the whole time. I still can't believe I didn't see it at the bottom of my backpack.
-Getting hit in the face with a soccer ball hurts more than a basketball. Unless someone is passing it to you straightforward and you weren't looking, then it hurts more. Also, if you have glasses, make sure to keep them on so you can see while playing, but also be careful not to get them dented by getting hit in the face with a basketball.
-ALWAYS stay at least 10 feet away from a batter at full swing. Trust me, I almost got hit in the face with a baseball bat because the batter was standing right next to me.
-Don't put your books or binders under the rails of middle school chairs. You'll just end up forgetting them later. I forgot my binder under those chairs about 4 or 5 times during my first year of middle school.
-If you have a school library book and you finish it two weeks after checking it out, don't shove it into your backpack and finally remember to return it 4 months later. Never done that before, but it happened to my one of my friends.
-NEVER mess around with settings on the computer that you will have the slightest chance of regret later when your parents find out. Learned that when my parents almost killed me this one time when I was messing around and changed some of the computer settings. :P I mean, can you really get THAT mad at somebody for altering the default font?
-Having everything essential to success with you at school is great, but the back pain is torture afterwards. I suggest you leave your 600 page workbook at school on the cheap shelf provided. Even though that shelf collapsed after a few days...
-If the school lunch looks remotely suspicious, probably safest to not eat it. I bit into an icy sandwich once. Irony, it claims it was oven roasted. Yeah right.
-Try not to judge people. I thought this one kid in my class was bad, but I ended up thanking him later for saving my friend and I from trouble. For once, he was good for something: me.
-If you want to complain, complain silently or to yourself or like-minded others. Complaining all over the place can get you shunned by peers, or in trouble with the teachers.
-Don't put your phone inside your backpack. Get a little pocket to stick onto a shoulder strap. Otherwise, you'll just spend 20 minutes walking all over the school looking for it when it was buried under your books the whole time. I still can't believe I didn't see it at the bottom of my backpack.
-Getting hit in the face with a soccer ball hurts more than a basketball. Unless someone is passing it to you straightforward and you weren't looking, then it hurts more. Also, if you have glasses, make sure to keep them on so you can see while playing, but also be careful not to get them dented by getting hit in the face with a basketball.
-ALWAYS stay at least 10 feet away from a batter at full swing. Trust me, I almost got hit in the face with a baseball bat because the batter was standing right next to me.
-Don't put your books or binders under the rails of middle school chairs. You'll just end up forgetting them later. I forgot my binder under those chairs about 4 or 5 times during my first year of middle school.
-If you have a school library book and you finish it two weeks after checking it out, don't shove it into your backpack and finally remember to return it 4 months later. Never done that before, but it happened to my one of my friends.
-NEVER mess around with settings on the computer that you will have the slightest chance of regret later when your parents find out. Learned that when my parents almost killed me this one time when I was messing around and changed some of the computer settings. :P I mean, can you really get THAT mad at somebody for altering the default font?
-Having everything essential to success with you at school is great, but the back pain is torture afterwards. I suggest you leave your 600 page workbook at school on the cheap shelf provided. Even though that shelf collapsed after a few days...
-If the school lunch looks remotely suspicious, probably safest to not eat it. I bit into an icy sandwich once. Irony, it claims it was oven roasted. Yeah right.
-Try not to judge people. I thought this one kid in my class was bad, but I ended up thanking him later for saving my friend and I from trouble. For once, he was good for something: me.
