Today, although it is something insignificant, I finally got back to pupil.
It's been exactly a year now from the time that I was introduced to CP and it has definitely been a roller-coaster of emotions. I started CP on codeforces, quickly losing rating, falling down to the despised gray area on the bottom of the rating chart. I think that was one of the things that made me leave CP for a very long period of time. I remember being frustrated that I couldn't solve a D2A or a D3A even, looking at the editorials after the contest and thinking to myself that I was so dumb to not be able to solve a problem that trivial.
But I came back to CP starting with USACO, and I think that really inspired me to start practicing more. I found more fun in CP as I got better and better and I recently started practicing more codeforces problems which probably attributed for my rise to Pupil. Although a small one, this jump has showed that I can do it with practice and the time I put in payed off. Although it may seem an easy accomplishment to some, achieving this goal has really boosted my self-confidence and I'm happy I could get here. Hopefully I'll write another blog post when I reach Candidate Master and my name changes to a distinct color in the spectrum of CF rankings :).
