From: Pavel Bykov (slidersv@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2009 - 06:10:05 ARST
Thanks everybody!
I'm sure looking forward to other projects besides studying. But I will
definitely be coming back for more.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Josh Covarrubias <shmokin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Many congrats Pavel! Enjoy your accomplishment and most importantly your
> family!
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> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Alexei Monastyrnyi <alexeim73@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hey compatriot! Good on you! P P>P7P4QP0P2P;Q Q !!!
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>> Pavel Bykov wrote:
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>>> The short story is 23372
>>>
>>> The longer story is that my time has come as well.
>>> I can't say it was easy, since open endedness of the questions was
>>> excruciating, but apparently it was doable non the less.
>>> After leaving Brussels lab, I felt bad and very uncertain. There were
>>> just
>>> so many possibilities of interpretation of the questions.
>>> I had to get back home from the lab right away, because I had to babysit
>>> my
>>> 6 month old son, since my wife was going to an all night party.
>>> Plane was leaving really soon, forcing me to rush to the airport, which
>>> helped to get my mind off the lab. On the plane, every 5 minutes my mood
>>> changed from hopeful to devastated, but luckily contingency plan that I
>>> had
>>> prepared eased the pain, and was very important in retrospect, because if
>>> I
>>> wouldn't get my number, I would have an already prepared plan that I
>>> could
>>> follow in the fight for the number.
>>> At home baby tried to get my mind off the lab by crying his lungs off,
>>> not
>>> wanting to go to sleep. But 6 months of previous similar acoustic
>>> experiences made my hearing resilient to those tones, and so I was
>>> continuously thinking about the lab. About all the things that I could
>>> have
>>> done wrong, and about the things I could have done right. Most of all, i
>>> regretted spending over two hours and completely changing my topology
>>> because of measly three points. The semi depressed state persisted, and
>>> It
>>> felt like it is going to be an eternity before any results will be in.
>>> But
>>> then, at 23:30, when all seemed lost for the night, an email appeared in
>>> the
>>> inbox. "Please do not reply" it said... uh oh, I thought, ... that can't
>>> be
>>> good. They probably don't want me to reply because they don't want to
>>> receive an expression of my anger... My heart started pounding like it
>>> was
>>> trying to fill three gorges dam with blood, and the page that followed
>>> after
>>> the link made it pound even more. PASSED it said and nothing more. That
>>> was
>>> really all I needed. So I shut monitor off and got back to getting baby
>>> to
>>> sleep. He finally closed his eyes at 2:30 am, and so did I.
>>>
>>> Thanks GS, my primary study resource. A special thanks to Oleg Konovalov,
>>> Radioactive Frog, Darby and Anthony Sequeira for the words of confidence
>>> at
>>> last second.
>>>
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