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 As you might be able to tell from the title of this post, I was unsuccessful this week in my goal of conquering my Tetris high score. Those who read my last blog post will likely recall that I obtained a new high score of 543,997, which is over 40,000 points higher than my previous high score. While I made several attempts to achieve an even higher score, my efforts were ultimately fruitless. I don't remember the highest score I achieved this week, but I think it was somewhere around the 470,000 mark. (I restarted my computer so tetris.com deleted all my high scores.)

There are several reasons I can attribute to my failure to accomplish my goal this week. One is that I did not have very much time to play Tetris due to having a large workload in most of my classes. (This isn't entirely true, as I procrastinated for most of my work, but my point still stands.) Another major reason is that I simply experienced burnout. After around 5 unsuccessful attempts to beat my high score, I stopped wanting to play Tetris. This is probably a bad sign, since it's only my 3rd post.

I'm not sure what I'll write about in my next post, but it will most likely be about Tetris. Unfortunately I don't anticipate to have much next week either, so I'll try to beat my high score with the time I have. I might also write about other Tetris-related topics, such as general strategy.