User:Dxu46

dxu46 was a member of the 2018 Ladue Middle School Science Olympiad team. He has been a part of Ladue Science Olympiad since 2016, when he was on the school's B team. He currently attends Ladue Horton Watkins High School.

2015-16
Experimental Design: "What's chromatography?"

Mission Possible: "Was the molasses supposed to leak out of the plastic capsule and ruin everything?"

Road Scholar: Two medals in one event, that's what I call business!

2016-17
'''Experimental Design"

Regionals: Losing points on the easiest sections whee!

States: Almost getting tiered but still winning tiebreaker for first LMAO

Nationals: And to think that 7 AM was early AHAHAHAHA

Meteorology: I studied for weeks just to answer one question of the test.

Road Scholar

Regionals: When you can literally lose half of your points and still win :thinking:

States: Not getting a perfect score because a certain idiot misread the entire map drawing section...

Nationals: "QUICK! PUT DOWN 6 FT/1000 FT ON A SLOPE GRADIENT PROBLEM... OH WAIT"

Rocks and Minerals

Regionals: Finishing the test 30 minutes early and going to homeroom to eat pizza!

States: TFW a Pembroke coach gives you a lecture on hourglass Selenite (which you have never heard of before) at the hotel and it's on the next day's test...

Nationals: Touching a piece of quartz bigger than your binder :0

2017-18
Experimental Design

Regionals: Were we supposed to get the rubric?

States: Gotta love the most stereotypical topic ever!

Road Scholar

Regionals: Scared because of satellite images...never mind.

States: A horrible feeling of apprehension because it was the last event to be announced

Rocks and Minerals

Regionals: Same test as last year, with the same exact spelling error and the same exact top 5!

States: Coming out of an event knowing you've won is the best feeling ever.

2018-19
* I had about a week's worth of time to prepare for this competition, as I was originally planning to do Division B

Experimental Design

UChicago: "Let's use some flimsy sandpaper as our ramp, with a washer that doesn't even roll straight!"

Regionals: TFW your partners argue about the topic for a solid 15 minutes

Fossils

UChicago: "I think this is a Cryptolithus, so the lagerstatten it came from was DEFINITELY not Beecher's Trilobite Bed!"

Regionals: Guessing the formula for hip height from feet dimensions correctly but then measuring the dimensions of the feet incorrectly be like ashsdagfj

Geologic Mapping

UChicago: You'd think a person who was good at an event about reading maps wouldn't take a wrong turn in the snow and arrive 20 minutes late...

Regionals: Coming into the event with a t h i c c binder full of internet printouts whee

Write It Do It

UChicago: "WE DIDN'T GET DEAD LAST!!!"

Regionals: WIDI? More like I die...in WIDI

Event Affinity
I have done (or at least attempted) a lot of events. Here is a complete listing.
 * Disease Detectives
 * Dynamic Planet/Glaciers
 * Dynamic Planet/Tectonics
 * Ecology
 * Experimental Design
 * Fossils
 * Game On
 * Geologic Mapping
 * Meteorology/Severe Storms
 * Mission Possible B
 * Optics
 * Road Scholar
 * Rocks and Minerals
 * Scrambler
 * Solar System/Terrestrial Bodies
 * Sounds of Music
 * Thermodynamics
 * Write It Do It
 * Wright Stuff

Now, whether I liked them or not was another situation. This is a list of my top 5 favorite events. You might notice that most of them are Earth/Space Science related:
 * 1) Rocks and Minerals
 * 2) Experimental Design
 * 3) Fossils
 * 4) Road Scholar
 * 5) Write It Do It

Ongoing Wiki Projects
(to remind me)
 * Road Scholar Satellite Maps section
 * Missouri State Tournaments

Besides SciOly
Dxu46 also competes in Speech and Debate for his school. Currently, he is a Lincoln-Douglas debater and participates in Original Oratory and Dramatic Interpretation. He won a plastic starfruit for Congressional Debate for 2nd place in one tournament, and then he decided he was too pro for Congress. Dxu46 enjoys being a part of Quizbowl. Although he does it mostly for fun, he has still experienced limited success, with his knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology from Percy Jackson and his large musical knowledge. Dxu46 enjoys listening to and playing classical music very much. He has been playing the violin for a while, and participates in selective orchestras. Dxu46 is discovering his newfound affinity towards opera with scenes such as the Queen of the Night's aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute. He tried singing its staccato, and from then on, his appreciation for opera singers rose drastically. His playlists on Spotify are comprised of mostly classical music, and although it is unpopular, he enjoys it very much.

Top Tens
It's a boring Sunday afternoon, so Dxu46 has nothing. He decides to list some of his top tens for various things.

West Side Story Songs
 * 1) America
 * 2) Mambo!
 * 3) Tonight (Quintet)
 * 4) A Boy Like That/I Have A Love
 * 5) One Hand, One Heart
 * 6) I Feel Pretty
 * 7) Something's Coming
 * 8) Jet Song
 * 9) Cool
 * 10) Maria

Violin Concerti/Concertos (anyone know which?)
 * 1) Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major
 * 2) Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor
 * 3) Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor
 * 4) Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor
 * 5) Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major
 * 6) Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major
 * 7) Dvorak Violin Concerto in A Minor
 * 8) Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major
 * 9) Wienawski Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor
 * 10) Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No. 2 in F# Minor

More to come...

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