From: Pavel Bykov (slidersv@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 30 2009 - 11:00:58 ARST
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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