A Crazy Week in My Life- Alan's Blog

This post is quite stream of consciousness-y and a bit different. Starting at 5pm on February 16th, I had one of the most eventful weeks of my life, where a bunch of significant events all coincidentally landed on the same week. Normally I keep a private journal for events like this, but since as far as I can remember (outside of vacations) this was probably the most eventful week in university/potentially ever, I thought I'd write a post reflecting on it. However, I decided against doing a detailed play by play of all the events that happened, because (1) to be honest I don’t really remember all the details and (2) I don’t think it would make for an interesting post. I'll just include some high level summaries and dedicate the bulk of the post to reflection on the first event (IMMC), which was most impactful to me. From 2/16 to 2/20, I participated in the International Mathematical Modeling Contest with two friends, Alexey and Matthew. I got invited on a whim to join them after meetin

This post is quite stream of consciousness-y and a bit different. Starting at 5pm on February 16th, I had one of the most eventful weeks of my life, where a bunch of significant events all coincidentally landed on the same week. Normally I keep a private journal for events like this, but since as far as I can remember (outside of vacations) this was probably the most eventful week in university/potentially ever, I thought I'd write a post reflecting on it. However, I decided against doing a detailed play by play of all the events that happened, because (1) to be honest I don’t really remember