From: Nitin Venugopal (nitinsworld@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 30 2009 - 12:34:24 ARST
Hi Pavel,
Congratulations..Last couple of days dint see any of your responses..So was
wondering where is Pavel ?...And here come the good news!!
You deserve it...!!
Best Regds
Nitin
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Pavel Bykov <slidersv@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> --
> Pavel Bykov
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