4/8/2025

CP for me in 2025 - when will the medals come??

Well, EGOI 2025 was a whole lot better than EGOI 2024, despite having scored a little less points. I think my lack of practice throughout the year impacted my performance a little bit - thanks to school exams, making time for CP was pretty difficult. But I do think that while the problems were quite hard (rated between 1700-2400 on Codeforces), I have managed to score as much as I possibly could, as someone who isn't skilled enough to fully solve problems like these. I partially solved AC on day 1, and partially solved ABC on day 2, which I found far more impressive compared to last year - so every cloud has a silver lining!

So, what's the plan for this/next year? My tutor and I have discussed the EGOI problems after the contest, as well as general problem-solving advice, and he gave me an excellent training plan, so I'll definitely be following this every week. Even small efforts every day mean a whole lot more than a little effort once a month, so maybe I can get that Codeforces raiting up, as well as manage to get a medal next year! I mean, I have 2 attempts left, so hopefully this can happen for me :D

Aside from CP, for the rest of my summer break, and during the school year if I have time, I will be working on some data science stuff! This being, working on how to use SQL, and do some cool things with it. After that, I will hopefully progress to learning some machine learning. And once I have all of this mastered, I shall see what life has planned for me next! And aside from programming, I am now studying for my driving theory test, since I am NOT going to have time for this when school starts, so I would like to get my learner's permit as soon as possible and start driving :DD

Thanks for reading! Hopefully I can update a little more frequently, but until I do, enjoy the fresh new features on my website :)