It was the end of my exchange and I had wanted to visit Provence this whole time. This was the perfect destination for me: nature, sunshine, and experiencing more of France. When I saw incredibly c...

Funny that I finished Part 3 before Parts 1 and 2. After taking several trips with my Canadian-German group, I decided to branch out on my own. I determined that: Four was the ideal group si...

This is the first part of my EPFL Switzerland exchange blog series! I keep a diary/journal, but the quality of my entries is far below what I’d like to publish. It’s going to take me forever to wri...

My classmate and I went to NYC for our Jane Street interviews! We scheduled our interviews for Friday, March 15th because we had no Friday classes and had just finished our midterms the previous we...

The Idea My 2023 summer internship was 12 weeks long instead of the usual 16, which gave me five weeks of time between the end of my winter internship and the start of my summer internship. I knew ...

Introduction TLE 2018-19 P1 - Hello, World! is from an April Fools’ Day contest; it’s not a serious competitive programming problem. If you take a look closely at the sample input, you might figure...

Introduction When you implement a recursive segment tree, it’s better to store segment tree nodes in an array or vector than it is to create a new object for every node one by one. This reduces th...

In the ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest), each team is allowed to bring up to 25 pages of printed material. There are many great codebooks out there such as KACTL, but I prefer to...

My Experience Note: I am writing this blog in June 2021, after the 2021 (not 2020) CCO. 2020 was my first time at the Canadian Computing Olympiad (CCO). The top 25 or so high school students fro...

My Online Profiles Rating badges are available here. Pull requests to add more sites are welcomed. My Contest History (only major contest are listed): 2022 East Central North America R...