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by knottingpurple
November 1st, 2017, 6:45 pm
Forum: 2018 Invitationals
Topic: 2018 Princeton University Invitational
Replies: 115
Views: 46903

Re: 2018 Princeton University Invitational

Anyways on a more serious note, I'm planning on going bc I want to a) help out, b) see what invites are like outside of the midwest, and c) to meet up with my awesome friends that will be there too! Can't wait for it! You're also coming because you need to try Bent Spoon ice cream because it is the...
by knottingpurple
November 1st, 2017, 2:41 pm
Forum: 2018 Invitationals
Topic: 2018 Princeton University Invitational
Replies: 115
Views: 46903

Re: 2018 Princeton University Invitational

Anyways on a more serious note, I'm planning on going bc I want to a) help out, b) see what invites are like outside of the midwest, and c) to meet up with my awesome friends that will be there too! Can't wait for it! You're also coming because you need to try Bent Spoon ice cream because it is the...
by knottingpurple
October 30th, 2017, 7:54 pm
Forum: General Competition
Topic: New Test Exchange Website
Replies: 110
Views: 19883

Re: New Test Exchange Website

Legit I don't feel like getting too much into this discussion right now because I have Game On tests to grade (which is so boring, which is how I ended up reading this, which is... whatever) but I just wanted to say you keep acting like just having access to tests is what will make a team win. It is...
by knottingpurple
October 28th, 2017, 11:05 am
Forum: 2018 Study Events
Topic: Dynamic Planet B/C
Replies: 144
Views: 48538

Re: Dynamic Planet B/C

Do anyone of you know how to calculate for isostasy and links for isostacy? Thanks! Based on the types of (Airy) isostasy problems I'd seen on previous tests, I wrote a bunch of practice problems for a camp over the summer which you can find at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m_3e0b-TN0uLNbsic6...
by knottingpurple
October 26th, 2017, 4:33 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Protectiveness over Resources
Replies: 62
Views: 13430

Re: Protectiveness over Resources

The one time I think some form of private exchange is absolutely necessary is for tryouts. Maybe other schools are different, but we often have some of our team captains not make the States or Nats teams, so they can't write the tryout tests because how would we compare their scores, then? Even if w...
by knottingpurple
October 23rd, 2017, 3:25 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Protectiveness over Resources
Replies: 62
Views: 13430

Re: Protectiveness over Resources

Also, with builds, I know people are reluctant to share their designs since they're afraid others will copy them, but I will say this: it's one thing to see a design. It's completely different other thing to be able to fully replicate someone else's. And that can be hard to do. Plus, when a build i...
by knottingpurple
October 15th, 2017, 1:16 pm
Forum: General Competition
Topic: Food science C equivalent
Replies: 4
Views: 1329

Re: Food science C equivalent

Even without having a C event about food science, it's possible to combine a love of cooking and a love of Science Olympiad by cooking food for your team all the time, lol. Probably one of the most important parts of any team, right? And speaking from experience, the rest of the team will really lov...
by knottingpurple
October 9th, 2017, 6:48 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Favorite non-textbook study books
Replies: 6
Views: 3797

Re: Favorite non-textbook study books

Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything is great! Perhaps due to being an earth science person generally, I mainly remember the earth science in the book, but I'm pretty sure it describes a lot of other subjects as well, both what they mean and how they were discovered. Hazel Muir's Scien...
by knottingpurple
October 9th, 2017, 6:32 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Does anyone do science bowl or bio olympiad?
Replies: 22
Views: 7676

Re: Does anyone do science bowl or bio olympiad?

It's possible to get very far with Biology Honors knowledge, if you are able to self-study things. After all, AP Biology isn't really too much different than the honors curriculum plus maybe more emphasis on certain areas such as DNA technology. Rumor has it some of the seniors from when we were fr...
by knottingpurple
October 5th, 2017, 11:28 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Does anyone do science bowl or bio olympiad?
Replies: 22
Views: 7676

Re: Does anyone do science bowl or bio olympiad?

Bio Olympiad? What do you do in that? I'm kind of interested if only California offered it. They're talking about the qualifying test for the US team for the International Biology Olympiad - most people don't make it that far but USABO is valuable at whatever level you make it to. It's an individua...

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