Thursday, April 1, 2010

Olympiad Aftermath

Ok. Ladies and Gents.  Its been a long....three weeks.  I recently participated in a robotics competition formally known as ARTSI Olympiad.  My two favorite parts of the competition is the Cryptography and the ARTSI MovieFest.  Anyway, the reason for this post is that I wanted to inform that a coordinator of the ARTSI MovieFest cheated and screwed me over.  I submitted my video for the movie festival, but when I arrived he said that I did not.  I sent 5 different emails.  I sent it to the correct address most definitely, yet he "did not receive it."  Coincidentally, his team placed first this year and last year.  Hmmm, is that not shady at all? So, I was highly irate at the time when I confronted him about the emails I sent to him because he was ignoring me and turning his back.  I wanted to punch him in his face because that is highly disrespectful, but I composed myself before I did so.  The night I returned to my university I felt like I did not know what to do with myself because it seemed that I did four days worth of work with only four hours of sleep each night for nothing.  I was not depressed nor sad, but just helpless.  I laid on my bed for an hour and a half, do absolutely nothing.  I later indulge myself with unhealthy by going to chinese restaurant.  After eating my food, I looked at the fortune cookie and I FELT, YES I FELT like it was important. More important than any I have ever received before.  I know this sounds crazy because that is exactly what I was thinking when I felt that way.  I opened and I read "You are not a loser until you quit trying."  There is a God.  If that is not a Heaven-sent message I do not know what is.  Not only that, I had received to fortune cookies and this one stated "Idleness is for fools."  Another significant message.  This raised my spirit back up, and I began writing my script for next years competition and I'm almost finished.  For the next four days after that night I gathered evidence with my evidence to accuse the coordinator Andrew Williams for cheating.  We gathered as much evidence as we could and presented it to the ARTSI board.  I will not discuss everything that we gathered in fear of a longer blog post, but in short, at the end of the fourth day he had resigned his position WILLINGLY from the ARTSI Board before any action could be taken upon him.  His first mistake was cheating.  His second was cheating me.  His third was cheating someone who worked really hard on his project.   His fourth was accusing me of lying.  His fifth was fucking with computer scientists with determination.  KARMA IS A BITCH...AINT IT?  Just another day in the life of me.  straight face.