August 2023 Status Update

This blog was written on Aug. 19, 2023, however, the date that this blog post was made is Aug. 20, 2023 at around midnight, according to my timezone.

To be honest, I wrote this status update so that my blog doesn't look empty and to prove that I'm still alive and well.

Hello, everyone!

I am quite sure that if you know me, you probably wondered what happened to my coding activity.

Don't worry, I'm not stopping anytime soon. I'm just taking a "break".

So what have I been up to?

As of now, I'm feeling quite stressed, but also excited at the same time, probably due to my "exam weekend" next week. (Aug. 26, 2023 to Aug. 27, 2023). I am spending that time reviewing material for the exams, while also slacking off when wanting to study.

"Exam Weekend"?

Yup, you heard that correctly! Next week, I will be taking two exams on the weekend! One that I'm not particularly worried about, but the other I'm super worried about.

I will be (re-)taking the (Digital) SAT on August 26, 2023. Although I already got a decent (according to my standards) score of 1420 (660 Reading & Writing, 760 Math), I kinda want to retake it due to my #1 university only looking at the Math section[1], and also in the case I don't get accepted I can find a different university.

I will also be taking Thailand's POSN selection camp test for the third time on August 27, 2023. This one is the one I'm worried about. I've already went to a seminar today that gave me tips on how to score higher, but I'm still scared from test anxiety and other stuff like not knowing/forgetting when I'm actually in the exam next week. To be fair, my score did increase in the last 2 attempts, on both subjects[2] from being average to getting above ONE standard deviation from average for both the Math and Computer exam, but sadly that isn't enough to "pass"[3].

Mathematical Base Defenders

It is still alive. I missed the (in my opinion) most important part of making a game: actually getting players. After the exams, I will try to get more players, by either promoting it more or telling more of my friends about it. That also explains the empty commit history for both the game subdomain and the accompanying website: No feedback. I just don't know what to improve (but I am still working on other features that, in the future, may be suggested).

Back to Coding Time

I would probably be actively coding for 6 hours during the school break, which is usually around September for Thai schools.

Thank you for reading this, and I hope to see you someday in Mathematical Base Defenders again.

Footnotes

[1] The (Digital) SAT's Math section, in my opinion, is very easy for me and probably other Thai students. Because of that, top universites want to see the best, or perfect scores on an easy test. Because the easier a test is, the higher the mean score would be. However, I tend to make some careless mistakes on easy tests.

[2] Math: 10% (-1stddev) to 21% (+1stddev), Computer: 52% (around average) to 57% (+1stddev due to average going down?). First listed is Feb. 2022's exam. Second listed is Aug. 2022's exam.

[3] Unlike the SAT, there is a "what happens after" for the POSN selection camp, as in if you score high enough (according to rank), you can go into the camp.