hello everybody...

the papers are halfway done... that means that every paper presents more of a chance to major screw up... and of course the worst case scenario would be when the last paper in each subject turns out to be a total washout and all the better luck in the earlier papers goes to total waste...
which might be pretty likely...

thus... i have come up with my mathematical magnum opus...
a relation between past luck and future misfortune...

[ ( ∑_k=1ⁿ m_k ) / ( n ) ] ⁿ = X

where
n = number of times things have gone your way,
m = magnitude of luck of succesive events,

and the expression,
[ ( ∑_k=1ⁿ m_k ) / ( n ) ] =
the average magnitude of luck over a period of time.
Which for ease of discussion we will term m_m.

and of course,
X = the magnitude of ill luck that will befall, not if, but when it does.

therefore X ≥ 1.
(This assumption is based upon the much-publicised Murphy's Law, ie. that given a chance, misfortune will always occur.)

The exception to X ≥ 1,
therefore, would be a case of inherent bad luck.*

Thus the statement [ ( ∑_k=1ⁿ m_k ) / ( n ) ] ⁿ = X would not stand only in the case where bad luck is already implied in a string of luckless events (ie. m = 0, n > 0).

*
In order to arrive at X = 0,
m_m has to be of a value equal to 0,
(in which case good fortune, albeit nonexistent, has never come to pass. In which would illustrate a terribly bad case of bad luck.)
and n > 0.

Which would mean that nonexistent good fortune, of average magnitude m_m, has been enjoyed for n number of times.
Tough luck.

anyways...

7 things that show you've gone round the bend studying...

1) you decide you need a 5 minute break.
2) you compose irrelevant, slightly off-beat, nonsensical mathematical formulae.
3) you mutter to yourself in the middle of an almost-empty school, "five minutes more."
4) you then proceed to rather loudly say, "back to work!"
5) people populating aforementioned almost-empty school turn and stare.
6) at you.
7) you come home and make a terrible fool of yourself publishing mathematical formula.

well well well... hmm let's see...
check, check, check, check, check, check, and... check...
ah well...
it's certain then...