hmm today, maths day at melbourne uni.. i know it sounds nerdy but it wasnt too bad actually.. morning we had a few talks and stuff one was on how maths is used in films to calculate fluid motion, other one was by this super magic guy! super awesomeee yeh.. :P then we had morning tea.. and michelle couldnt stop stuffing bread in her mouth :):) hehe and it was sooo delicious!! like super duper super duper super yummy! then we had the MIT challenge.. its about occupational health and safety thing where a company (Telstra) it says on the bottom of the sheet :) well the company wanted to improve the standards so they sent people to do audit.. one audit is 4000 bucks and over 5 years theyve spent 20 million on issueing people compensation.. so is it worth it? and they give you last 5 years data and you have to analyse it.. and its on EXCEL and none of us knows how to use EXCEL so duh if the audit score goes up incidence of injuries goes down. thats all we could say and other teams had to EXTRAPOLATE the graph and had graphs of 30 lines from 7500 pieces of DATA!! soo many numbers! and averages and calculation of ratings etcetc.. and we couldnt use excel.. :(:( hmmmphh! now i wished i learnt more about excel from masha jie jie!! cos i hate excel so much now :( hmpph!!! oh well its over.. and i cant believe it the year 11 team won! whoohoo! well they had nick the "computer genius" did the first qn in 5 minutes and we spent an hour and 10.. -.-" about there.. plus chris was busy checking afterwards and we were still out by heaps.. answer was 24 and we only found 17 cases :( sighhh bedtime!