Student article about US Nationals 2015

[Drummerbadboy]

Hey everyone,
I'm a sophomore in college and I was a competitor at Nationals this year. I wrote an article for the Odyssey (an online newspaper for students published at dozens of Universities around the United States) about my personal experience competing in US Nationals this year. I tried to clear up some misconceptions/myths about cubing and answer questions I get asked a lot when I tell people I cube (we've all heard this one: "so there's a pattern to it, right?"). I thought I'd use my position as a staff writer at the Odyssey to help answer those questions. It's written with the layman in mind, but I still think you all would enjoy it!

I'm not sure if this forum is the best place to post it, but I saw that this is the place for University/local cubers to post things, so I thought I'd post it here. If the link doesn't work for whatever reason then you can still read the article on the Odyssey's website. Thanks!

http://theodysseyonline.com/north-georgia/competing-in-rubiks-cube-competition/172082

 

[qwertycuber]

I really enjoyed reading that!

 

[NeilH]

That was awesome, but did you quit cubing now?

 

[1w3playZ]

Great read! I really liked this part.
"have to go outside a few times throughout the day to get it out of my head" I actually went to the beach like 3 times in one day to get it out of my head, and got some ice cream by that pool thing. Ahhh, memories. But seriously it was louder than any other competition I've been to, with the clacking and stuff.

 

[Lyssalikesthing]

Great article. That's a great time and it's pretty awesome that you made it to the second round. Too bad you've retired from speed cubing, maybe in the future you'll get a jacket made and enter another competition.

 

[Drummerbadboy]

Thanks guys! I'm probably not going to travel to competitions anymore just cause I'm really busy in college and I haven't been getting any faster recently, but I'm still having fun practice solving by myself so I'm not totally done yet haha. And 1w3playZ I did the same thing! That balcony outside was pretty nice too

 

[stoic]

Good read.

 

[TheCoolMinxer]

Really well written article, I enjoyed it

 

[bluesk1]

Nice article