I became involved with the math club at Spaulding after a friend in my home room suggested I come to a meeting after school. After attending, I realized math club might have been a somewhat misleading name. While we certainly did some math, it wasn’t at all like the math I would do in class. Math club was more focused on the competitive aspect of math. We would do problems to prepare for various competitions in the state. Joining the club certainly improved my mathematical abilities. In large part due to attending regularly, I made several seniors a little annoyed by winning our best in school award on the UVM math exam as a sophomore. More often than not, however, our meetings devolved into a group of students that just wanted to have some
