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Thanksgiving, just so you know I'm not dead

Hey everyone,

Happy thanksgiving. I'm busy with NaNo, so I haven't been posting, but I have not in fact passed away. Anyways, today the house is really quiet since my mom took the two younger siblings with her to Taiwan to visit her folks. Good times.


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Chapter Meeting tomorrow

What the title said. It's at Maplewood library at 7:00. You should all come.

Hmm. Well, yesterday I didn't go to debate since Andy had a cold, and I didn't want to go, so it was cool. But today I went to soccer tryouts with a semicold, and it was not cool. Other than that I've just been keeping busy. PSAT on Wednesday, I'm not very worried after a few practice test, it seems rather easy.

The results

Well, we went 1-3. Our win was a bye. I have to say, the need for evidence rather caught me off guard. I had framed a debate so that the round would come down to the weighing issue of a human life versus a violation of the first amendment, something that would have easily been a win in LD. But apparently I didn't have enough evidence. For something that is suppose to be based on good arguments it is ridiculous how you can't even base arguments off of moral judgment.

Debatey!

Tomorrow is my first debate tournament of the year, same it's classic. I really should be getting some sleep seeing as how I need to get up early for it tomorrow, but I have a really huge energy rush, due to the fact that I just completed two homework assignments in forty minutes, just an hour away from the deadline. Anyways, I hope to do really well tomorrow, because I'm angling for a position as team captain, seeing as how no one else is there to compete with me for that position. Both of our cases are pretty kickawesome, so it should be okay. Our neg case in particular is great, since it invalidates most of what they say, regardless of how they say it.

A better start...

I scored a 85 on the UMTYMP test. Except for one spot where I screwed up an integral on a arclength I didn't make any major mistakes, so I'm pretty pleased with myself. The thing I'm more pleased about s the fact that I'm actually off to a better start this year than last year, and last year I only had six classes. Signs of progress...

Debate tournament on Saturday. The fact that Andy is my partner is possibly the only thing that makes the activity bearable, as almost every practice is during my classes and classic debate sucks and yadda yadda. Anyways, I need to finish up our cases. They are both extremely over the top, and I hope to win off of weighing issues alone. Our impacts are along the lines of America descending into totalitarianism and America's economy imploding.

Victories of sorts

Kevin and I teamed up once again for an Epic bout of Two Headed Giant. We had the same record as we did last time, but paradoxically won fewer packs. It was still a good time.

UMTYMP test today. It went alright, I was actually prepared for a change.

And I attended the UMTYMP college night AND the Yale Information session. For a liberal arts college it's surprisingly attractive to me. Yale has the benefit of having really good speakers as admission officers. It's a lot more convincing than Stanford, for example.