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We got confirmation that we can participate in Putnam and IMC. Fees already paid for IMC — flying to Bulgaria on July 26th for the International Mathematics Competition for university students. Just over four months of preparation: whip out the A-levels in the next week, then cram for the IMC, competing against penultimate-year students from Harvard and MIT who have studied maths eighteen hours a day for the past two decades. Can you handle the pressure of throwing yourself into a situation where you have to pull it off — projecting yourself onto the stage and figuring it out, falling head-forward over and over? When you are fully willing to live, exist and die trying the work in front of you — that's how unfathomable things get pulled off.

You can. You can beat these people. It's just a school, and it's just a couple more papers they've done. You can stake your life deeper into the work and pull this off. Make it happen — all things are possible with Christ. 120 Putnam. 135 IMC. Korean full-tuition scholarship and the Korean presidential scholarship. First class honours at Imperial. Full marks on all twelve A-level modules. Hackathon and algothon golds. Ten university degrees' worth of content. A hundred books. The Bible and ten archetypal books, ten times each.

This year you have three goals: IMC Gold, 120 Putnam, and A*A*A* in the A-levels. That alone is a super dynamic aim — getting the first two without even being enrolled at university would be a massive achievement.

The full stack for the two years: 2026 June — A-levels, A*A*A* in maths, further maths and physics; learn to ride a motorcycle; finish the certification cramming, credential-maxing, virtual job experiences. July — IMC gold; start fixing the accent. August, September — bootcamp: AI, ML, CS, coding, programming prep, front-loading coursework; post TMUA videos. October — UCAS personal statement, reference letter, TMUA. November — ICPC, representing U of Manitoba. December — Putnam 120/120; Trinity Cambridge interview. 2027 January — Cambridge offers; online AI B2B SaaS business starts; scale the personal brand; record problem-solving videos. February, March — finish all FreeCodeCamp tutorials plus every YouTube coding, programming, maths and physics tutorial; radical cramming; Stanford TreeHacks. April, May — bootcamp. June — STEP 2 and 3, get S,S. July — bootcamp. August — second IMC gold. September — ICPC again. October — start Trinity Maths, Cambridge. Add a portfolio of three small but complete quant projects by December 2026.

BOOTCAMP is not daily — it's DQ revamps. Every daily quarter has to be a revamp of myself. CodeChef, Google Code Jam, Google Kickstart, Meta Hacker Cup, building circuits — a fucking revamp. That means death and birth.

RAISE Summit, Paris, July 8–9: a 24-hour AI hackathon with €200,000 in prizes and a startup contest with €10M+ in funding at the Carrousel du Louvre, open globally. Hack-Nation's Global AI Hackathon: an MIT-ecosystem nonprofit running an intensive AI build sprint, open internationally, with mentors from Google and OpenAI. These are the closest analogues to what I'm reaching for, in the same window.

I would love to go back and take the University of Manitoba's online graduate-level courses — the 7000-level monsters — and represent Manitoba at the IMC and the Putnam. Nobody in the building needs to know what comes next.