I was screaming in the fossils room YET AGAIN. (If you saw me, good for you, because I was like everywhere today. After I finished Meteo, my old Misssion Possible partner and I were walking around looking into random classes. We came back to Meteo and there was this one dude who was staring at us and we were also watching our Food Sci team too, but then the proctor look at us to go away) There were only like 5 teams in the room when we were competing hehehe (one of them being Mesa Robles). Honestly, I loved the test, but also hated it because we got questions wrong that we were supposed to get right and after it, I was still screaming in agony. And I was even praying during the test because I was so scared that Chaparral would beat us, but they actually didn't beat us in any comp before. Not even at JT lol
The best question was: What is your favorite fossil on the Official Fossils list?
We scribbled this down "Bothriolepis because there was this one test that we took that had a kinda bad image of it (actaully I think it was Kraemer last year) and then we were like "Oh MY GOD! It's A CRYPTOLITHUS" that moment was priceless (but we were on different teams but same school and at that time, my partner was good at fossils, but we both thought the same thing) - DMS Fossils Team
Even at the end, another team talked to us saying that it was hard. I said that it was hard too (because I literally screamed when I saw teeth), Mosasaurs, Plesiosaurs, Pterosaurs, and Ichthyosaurs and failed on the random station with the phyla (you'll understand if you saw it) on it. I went back to base thinking that we did bad because there were so many nickname questions and trivia (cough cough), and tiktaalik and dimetrodon screwed us over. I was screaming too much today tbh
My partners were super slow to get here and I was so annoyed. and in DP, my partner asked "how do we get potassium in the ocean. i then responded with "Bananas", but then we probably got that question right though putting rivers/winds and something else.
Thanks to our amazing Fossils and DP coach and lots of Discord (I literally did it for like 3-4 hours a day for Fossils) for both events! (and tim ofc, without him, i would've failed DP) THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU AS WELL! i kept losing my motivation and was super tired, but ya'll kept pushing me to beat them. The problem is that for Fossils, so many people were like "Good Luck! You're going to get first place" and that scared me SOO much. Also, I'm not a fossils god either, so don't say that to me or DP god either. (some kids were exiting the room and i heard them say "red is good" and assumed that they were referring to us AND they were looking at us like the entire test. (i mean we checked our answers like 3 times...and finished the test in about 25 min, then saying that we did OK)
I also got roasted so much today too and there were a lot of dirty looks at me for some reason... who knows
Even the people that gave me the medals were like "You want a 3rd one and a 4th one?"(cause my Fossils/DP partner and Meteo partner left, so I actually had 6 medals, and so many teams were mad that our team had just got the medals and because that I was claiming it too.
either way, great job still! 4th is amazing, even tho I’m a lil salty that I got 4th at UPenn yesterday. Test was v easy. (Ps, I also made the Rustin orni test)