Math contest, trainphobia and abstraction

[4everconvex]

Last weekend I went to the first math contest in 2007, which was held in Focsani . From my town there were 15 of us, including a teacher. We are generally the same group of people that go to all these competitions, so we all knew each other quite well.

We took the train to Bucharest at about 10 pm on Thursday and our tickets were booked for a

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[yashabk]

Having this happened, I told myself that I would either mess up everything at the math contest, or do incredibly well. It turned out to be the former one.

Wouldn't practically 1st place be the latter one?

And congrats!

[4everconvex]

Thanks!

I am actually pleased with my score and with the fact that I solved all the problems, though a bit more attention would have meant first place. I suppose 2nd place still goes in the 'incredibly well' category.

[4everconvex]

Thanks! The problems weren't that hard though. [I wish they were somewhere online so I could put a link here]

The person below was actually from our group (he also got his ticket later than the others). After falling, I was something like 'omg, why isn't he saying anything?!'. The next morning I asked him why he didn't react in some way so I would know he was fine, and he just told me he didn't realize what was going on, so he went back to sleep... :-/

Oh, and you should upload your LJ :)

[pteromys]

Wow, congratulations!

...and you managed to spread screamtoes around? That's... hehe... also quite impressive.

[4everconvex]

Yeah, it's pretty interesting how math people tend to like random games a lot more than the others...

[convexbaka]

Congrats!

That's rather scary.