Today, like most days, we woke up between 7:30 and 8:00. Our exam started at 9:30 and finished at 14:30. We then had a quick lunch, then a problem session where we went through the exam. Now, Jarrah has told us to go to the labs and code some more problems for a few hours.
Jarrah compared us to marathon runners. He says, like marathon runners, we do lots and lots of training before the event, then we rest for a week. He says this is the intensive training period. I said that it felt like every day, we run a marathon. Then we painstakingly track our progress in the marathon and note every little detail of our run. Then we are made to run on a treadmill for another three hours.
So.. so.. tired...
On September 21st 2012, four Australian high school students will travel to Italy to compete in the International Olympiad in Informatics, a two-day ten-hour six-question elite computer programming contest. For the week beforehand, they will undergo intensive training at the University of New South Wales. Their names are Michael Chen, Daniel Goldbach, Joshua Lau and Nicholas Laver. These are their stories.
Friday, 21 September 2012
Goodbye, ERHU, UNSW and Australia... Hello Italy! (via Dubai)
Express blog post: we're about to say goodbye to the ERHU lab. We've had a great time at UNSW training over the last week and within a few hours, will be on board a flight headed to Italy! Can't wait ^_^
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