----------------------------------------THE STREAK -------------------------------------
I don't know why I have an obsession with streaks I just ended my 303 streak yesterday. I kind of forced my streak especially after it got to 100 days. (my goal was 365 but I solved 380 problems so I guess it was a half success) 
Felt bad for a minute, but quickly realized that I just "freed" myself.
During my 303 day streak I was probably solving easy problems 80%+ of the time (or perhaps ALL of the problems I solved are very easy for some people here)
-------------------------- here are the gains/losses --------------------------------------------
to wrap it all up: I improved my speed (reading problem statementsn & implementation)
Basically EVERYTHING ELSE would have been better if I did just 2 hard problems each week.
At least I learned something from this experience: I'm a friggin*****(who wants to play wordle lol)
ANYWAYS I hope that nobody would do this dumb thing like me and waste their time on a streak
instead of doing more fun and challenging stuff
(or maybe everyone else is smart enough to figure that out and I'm just slow asf)
------------------------------------------- below is a goofy ahh personal story ----- -------------------------------------
Anyways, I did some Usaco problems lately and felt that they are very different from the easy problems I did (even in bronze division). They require less knowledge but more thinking. Even though sometimes I feel stupid (maybe I'm right lol), the process of solving these puzzles made me rekindle my interest in problem solving. (something I feel like I ditched after middle school ...)
The major I'm going for is not rly related to cs/math, but I enjoy solving those puzzles even if I'm not good at them.
As a high school student living in China, I got like 0% chance of going to any kind of chinese high school olympiads. This means I'm probably at a disadvantage in terms of applications because i spend time doing many things not related to class work and my college major.
CP likely might have nothing to do with my future career.
Still, I think solving puzzles are often very fun and something I can keep doing without getting bored.
I think solving these puzzles is as fun if not more as playing games (My favorite game is: this GOATED CRICKET GAME)
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The streak is helpful at the beginning. It gives you motivation to sit at least once in everyday. but day by day, it starts to become a problem. You will see that in your busy day, you just did an easy problem or just did a wrong submission which is not helpful for you. It becomes a pressure and a matter of frustration day by day. So, it is good at the very beginning phase, but you should leave it behind after this phase. I am also a sufferer, that's why i know that It hurts.
thats cuz all your streaks targets are dumb, try solving 3-5 'your rating + 100' (a dark green streak) problems and see the progress
huge respects to the people like you
you are an idiot (you admitted it yourself)
on top of that, you can become a taxi driver (a reference to engineers who cant find work (in many countries, that's how it is))
Don’t cry
You are going to cry after seeing my streak
Yet another positive blog which people may not like...