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The competition was really really fun! Our top team (we sent 4) placed 5th out of 88 teams which traveled from 39 different
colleges. My team placed 44th, to put us right in the middle of the pack. There were 11 problems with 5 hours to solve
as many as we could, but we only got 3 correctly submitted. Several of the other one's had weird bugs that we couldn't
figure out. I have never seen so many computer nerds in one spot at one time though, it was really cool. Unfortunatly computer
science is still a relm of the male as out of the almost 270 students, there were all of about 20 females. And of course lots
of guys with really long hair, to fit the hacker sterotype. I had a blast, and I can't wait to do it next year. I brought my
digital cam too, so here's some pictures from it:
Studying dynamic programming in the hotel room
Our shirts that they gave us
Suitcase full of books (since you can't have any electronic/internet access, but all the
books/hardcopy you can carry)
One of the 4 labs they had us in
Out of focus picture of my group!
Today is live one hour, get one free day. Otherwise known as fall back. I wonder what my clock will do. It's 1:57 as I type this
and so will it go to 2:01 or 1:01 in the next 4 minutes? I'll let you know.
I need this. LED glowing feet, how cool is that?
5...
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It went back to 1 AM! Hooray for correct programming!
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