You Gave Meaning To My Life

The only regret in our lives is the chances we didn't take.

My life in math this first grading had been a very depressing and regretful one. Most of my quizzes have a failing grade and there is only one quiz that I passed, which us very disappointing especially for a star section student. Every point in every quiz is very crucial and important thing to have because if you have for example 5 mistakes in a twenty point exam, a 1.5 point will be deducted to the raw score of your grade and even a quarter of a point is very essential specifically for me who is striving for honors for my scholarship.

Aside from what said earlier, there are still 2 things that made me feel depressed. First, is that I was not able to take the entrance exam of MTG because of the making of the salary scheme. Since grade 5, I was always joining the MTG and I was always being qualified for the YMIITP. It was also during grade 5 when I was the top scorer in the final exam if the 12 session training of MCFKTP. Because of that I thought I was also going to pass the final exam of the YMIITP but I didn't. It was a heart breaking feeling. Until grade 9, I was still not able to qualify for the MOSTP and this year was my last chance of passing and I was not able to take the exam because of the math performance which is the salary scheme. Second, is that I was not able to take the elimination exam for the PMO(Philippine Math Olympiad) and this time it was due to my idiotic and careless decision. It was always been my goal in high school to compete in a math contest and represent my school. I had a chance of being qualified by taking the elimination exam and since 8 will be chosen, maybe I will be the 8th one. But because of my idiotic decision to just practice for the nutri-jingle, I was not able to take the exam. Due to that, I regret my choice because I didn't even prioritize what is more important. As a result, I got depressed and now living my life with great affliction, agony, pain and sorrow.

For me, math is my life. It is the only subject that I truly and whole-heartedly loved. It is the sole reason why I believed that there is an answer for every problem. So without math my life would be miserable at best.

That is why this next grading, I will never let go the opportunities that will help me enhance my mathematical skills and will make me a better person. I believe in the saying that, "It doesn't matter where you came from or how you started what matters is where you are going and how good and strong you will finish."

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Be Strong, Things Will Get Better

This week was the best and the most amazing yet ironically the saddest.

We had a 3-day consecutive suspension of classes due to the typhoon that is strengthened by habagat. That is from Monday to Wednesday.

Then Thursday, we had a unit test on math. On the previous days, it was announced that a calculator is allowed so I expected a very difficult because no teacher would ever allow a calculator on an easy. So I reviewed every lesson we discussed and I also practice solving problems in a timed situation. I even studied the simplifying, adding, and multiplying of expressions with imaginary roots. But it is true that things doesn't come on your life the way you planned it so you must be ready in any situation that might happen. Consequently, we were not allowed to use a calculator because Mam Nicole was not able to prepare the test so it was only a 30 item multiple choice type exam and we were given 1 hour to answer it instead of the typical 30 minutes with 10 questions to answer.

I only got 26 points out of 30 not because I don't know how to solve it but due to my carelessness again and being incautious. I was suppose to be correct in number 1 & 2. The question is only about identifying a polynomial among the given expressions. I thought an expression with negative exponent is a polynomial so because of that idiotic idea, I was wrong. "Marami talagang namamatay sa maling akala."

The Friday, we are all surprised that we are not doing anything about math. We were just asked to move our chair sidewards and form a big circle at the middle of the classroom so we did. We had a game that involves saying ha if your the first person picked then the person next to you will say the consecutive number of ha from how many ha you said. If the chain of ha is broken, the one who broke it will crack a joke and if it isn't funny the he/she will be dared.

As the game started, the chain if ha is already broken by Adrian. It think Adrian said 14 ha's instead of 13. The next one who broke the chain was Amie, then Venice, then Kim, then Amie again, then Caesar, after him was Vicente, then Caesar again, and lastly Venice for the second time.

After Venice broke the chain of ha's, she was dared by Mam Nicole to tell what is in her blog. This time it became emotional. It was about three persons; 2 girls who likes one boy. This 2 girls were friends and Venice was the third girl. The second girl was in a mutual relationship with the boy so Venice became sad. She was afraid to tell her feelings to the boy because she might hurt her friend. At the end, she blamed herself of not being courageous enough to tell her feelings to the boy and she realized that her studies is more important that relationship with the boy.

After Venice told her story, Mam Nicole also told hers. It was about their secret relationship with her boyfriend for 5 yrs. In fact, their relationship with each other became broken just 2 weeks before. It is ironic that she teaches perseveringly and she does her best to make us understand the lesson but deep inside she experienced the anguish of separation after her 5 year relationship. May Mam Nicole don't lose hope in life. I believe that she and his future husband in life will be one again. 

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Winning is Winning

You must be one to control your time and not the time will control you.

It was the first day of the week, Monday, when we were surprised that we were having a room based group activity math quiz bee. There are three stages of the game, namely easy round in which you have 1 point for every correct answer, average round in which 2 points each correct answer, and the difficult round in every correct answer is worth 5 points.

Our group was at the top place on the easy round by which we have a 2 point deficit among the other groups because there are 2 question that only our group was able to answer. Specifically, me and ericah was only one to answer those questions.

During the average round, we struggled a little bit. As a result we were down by 4 points because we had incorrectly answered 2 precious questions. Me and magoo were the one who got the question wrongly answered. I was a bit depressed because of that. The question was too easy because you will only have apply zero product property on every term of the equation. I got it wrong because I panicked. I was suppose to find out the fastest way to solve it but due to time pressure I multiply the whole equation instead giving me a longer time to solve it so I ran out if time. But I did not let it became a hindrance in making a comeback to correctly answered the next question assigned to me to help my team be on the first place again.

On the difficult round, we got the highest point among the other groups. As a result we won the quiz bee with a two point lead against the second placed group and what a heart breaking lose for them with only a very important two point deficit. As mam nicole promised we will have an additional 5 points on the next quiz. Luckily, the next quiz is the unit test which is very important for because I have low on the past quizzes.

The next 2 days, we only studied about getting the roots of a polynomial equation. It was quite easy for me and I learned it immediately.

Then Thursday, the most recent quiz was given and my score was very low. I only got 10 out of 20. It was all due the very carelessness of myself. I was ashamed and embarrassed of myself because my score was a last section score and It made me mourn for the first time in my life because of a low score on an easy quiz. I think I starting to lose my passion and devotion in math because of the depression of having low scores in quizzes. But I realized that you can not go back on the things that already happened so all I can do now is to be very careful in solving problems in math and not only in math but also in making tough decisions in life because regret and sorrow will come for those who are not cautious in their choices.

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The Unexpected One

For me, math class is my favorite subject whoever the teacher is. But this week's math class was different. It made me enjoy math even more not just by liking but also loving it the most.

Last Monday, we were asked to do a performance task, which is very seldomly done in a typical math class about telling a story behind the transformation of a paper to an open rectangular box.

Then the next day, some of us are very much prepared while others are still confused on how would you tell a story about that. Then mam Nicole told us that it the story may be a fantasy or life related. After that, we were all now excited with butterflies in our stomach.

But when our teacher announced that she will picking randomly a number of a student from a pile and another pile for what way would you perform your story. We were all shocked but excited because we know this will be an exhilarating performance. Then the number 9 was drawn which is Arnold and I was like in split millisecond near to death situation because I was number 10. All of us cheered before he performed and when the way of performing was picked, singing was performed and the cheer of the audience roared louder like a lion. But on my perspective, there were three best performers. First was Ericah. She portrayed as sisa and her role was very much appropriate for her because she is best at being crazy. Second was Gianna. She also portrayed as sisa and we were all amazed by her performance because Gianna was quite not good at performance but based on what she had shown, her performance was undeniably transcendent. Then Magoo came third. He portrayed as a gay and we all laughed because the whole class know that Magoo was very manly with a muscular body. But he tried his best to be a gay and his performance all went flawless.

Then Thursday, we had long quiz about synthetic division, long division, factor theorem and remainder theorem. In number 10 I answered I Loved u which is I think was right but when I asked Rene about his answer, he said it was I love u. I hope the D won't be a cause for my deduction because I tried my best in finding the message in number 10 and because of that d my effort will be wasted. I hope not.

Friday, we did nothing because it was journalism day.

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