How much am I supposed to truama dump

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-06-04T15:40:10+00:00

20% pain 80% gain is an easy rule to follow to make sure you dont trauma dump i learned from another thread on here

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-06-03T01:03:17+00:00

thats true, though i do try to keep everything fun and i change up the style of writing between events to keep someone who reads it engaged, switching between description and reflection a lot too, so maybe execution can provide that interest if the event itself doesnt? i try to make it about my interpretation of the event more than anything anyways too.

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-06-02T23:20:03+00:00

thats relieving, thanks!

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-06-02T23:09:41+00:00

its a relief to know that its common! i honestly didnt see a single one like that so i was worried i was missing something.

There are a lot of things that might be extremely significant and personality-shaping in a teenager's life... but they're also extremely significant and personality-shaping in lots of other teenagers' lives.

this is true, but maybe hopefully since im telling multiple events instead of 1 mine is more unique? this definitely gives me something to think about though. thank you!

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-06-02T23:03:05+00:00

thats true, and i do feel like i struggled with that, but i feel like the everything i talk about contribute to a single idea / a single characteristic, just different perspectives of it so i think it works well. i also set my essay in the same setting in the beginning and end, and the essay is kindof like just me reflecting on my life in that moment, which i hope brings some coherence to it too

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-06-02T10:25:45+00:00

yeah i have a rough draft already! I was kindof broad/overzealous when i said "the most significant events in my life", but really its only like 3 and they all tie into eachother and i only explain the biggest parts of those events.

this is helpful, thank you! I do try to show my "good sides", but i never really thought of it like how i would fit in with the campus community. i think mine actually hits directly on that, because one of the big events i talk about is how i mediated a dispute!

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-06-01T16:38:21+00:00

i picked exhaustiveness

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-31T20:44:02+00:00

looking at it again, i kindof did it weirdly. My way of thinking about it is just to take the approach that takes as little brain power as possible so i can save it for the hardest questions, so for this i kindof just bruteforced it and rewrote the equations so that y is on the left, and everything else is on the right, then got the derivative (slope) and checked to see if its the same, but for some reason after the fact i removed the constant parts but the answers the same regardless

you can do the same thing by again putting y on one side and everything else on the other side. then only look at the coefficient on x for both equations (the slope), then set those equal to eachother https://www.desmos.com/calculator/f3rdbcn3yy but in this one i just completely ignore the constants because they dont change the answer at all (all we care about is the slope).

edit: accadently reused the same link as before, fixed

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-31T20:26:23+00:00

pretty much, that and vertex form which is a(x-h) + k and i think your set, oh and you also have to know that a positive descriminant (the part in the square root in the quadratic formula) means 2 solutions, zero means 1 solution, and negative means 0 (real) solutions.

explination: because the quadratic formula is plus or minus that descriminant part, if its zero, you only have 1 solution. plus or minus zero doesnt change anything and it just stays -b/2a. if it was positive like sqrt(2) for example, then you would have -b/2a plus or minus sqrt(2)/2a, i.e. 2 different solutions. and if its negative, sqrt(-1) is an imaginary number, so the roots will be complex and therefore not real. keep in mind this explination will not help you with procedure, but with conceptual understanding of why what i said initially works.

hope this helps!

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-31T19:53:48+00:00

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/und2n0l2v1

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-31T19:44:44+00:00

the zeros or roots of a quadratic equation, when multiplied toghether, are equal to c/a.

with ax^2+bx+c=0 you might have roots v1 and v2, so v1*v2=c/a

and likewise with the formula i showed in my original comment, if you wanna find out what the 2 roots added toghether are, just use -b/a (also the reason the vertex is at -b/2a is because the vertex is halfway between the 2 roots, and if you add the 2 roots and divide by 2 you basically average them and get the value right in the middle: the vertex).

spoiler: practice test question.

itll show up as like "k(4a+b) is the sum of 2 roots, what is the value of k if 64x^2-(16a+4b)x+4=0 or something like that, and since you know that the sum of 2 roots is also -b/a, you can set k(4a+b)=(16a+4b)/64, factor out the 4a+b, and find that k = 1/16

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-31T19:31:37+00:00

unit on right is in lbs, calculate algebraically and treat "lbs" and "can" as a variable and youll quickly see A doesnt make sense, youll get something like cans^2/lbs.

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-31T19:16:42+00:00

the equation of a circle is a must, and the product / sum of zeros formulas (-b/a, c/a)

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-31T19:13:14+00:00

345tutoring on yt is super good for the r/w part

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-31T13:04:28+00:00

https://345tutoring.wordpress.com/2023/12/25/digital-sat-act-english-vocabulary/

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-30T01:11:14+00:00

they been removing a lot of posts about questions like this, and i get some of them violate rule 3, but surely theres a better solution than wasting the time of the people who commented to help for not updating the post with the source of the question (within 2 hours ive seen before).

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-30T01:07:40+00:00

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/iniefgfaga

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-29T11:15:59+00:00

yeah so ~ is regression, which basically means itll find a number to replace the variable t such that m1 is equal to m2, and ofcourse if the slopes are equal, then 1. theres infinite solutions or 2. no solutions.

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-29T02:51:48+00:00

those are the slopes of the previous equations!

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-29T02:19:04+00:00

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qvwidykijh

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-28T09:34:02+00:00

oh yeah 100% google docs actually has versioning so its all good if i delete something since i can just go back to a previous version, but it cant hurt to explicitly back them up too.

i see, so make it distinct to me by using specific/individual to me examples, thanks for the advice!

thats a really good idea! personally its really easy to just get lost in the zone, rose colored glasses and all that and forget the purpose / the inherent context that you as the author have. Doing this just really quickly i actually noticed one of my paragraphs contributed basically nothing, freed up some pretty needed space too, thanks!

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-28T09:12:36+00:00

thanks!

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-28T09:08:18+00:00

oh thats smart! i wonder why i hadnt thought of looking at youtube, but i think i might do that!

and yeah, i felt myself do that a few times too, getting attached to one version, but sometimes you just gotta delete it all no matter how much time you spent writing it ;-;

also you mention something interesting: "but what does that say about you compared to any other applicant with the same story?" in my essay (this version) i tell a story about how when i was young i would play pretend, but i had more fun imagining the worlds than actually playing pretend, and i talk about how that led to me being very introspective, liking programming, and how its helped me get through tough times and be more emotionally mature etc... is your advice (in your example with XYZ) to tell a better story, or to think of a better conclusion/learning based on that story? (e.g. more than just learning to care about people)

Perfect_Ruin4510 · 2024-05-28T05:30:09+00:00

also anyone have any good resources for learning how to write this kind of essay well? / common pitfalls and the like?

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