From: Josh Covarrubias (shmokin@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 30 2009 - 16:38:33 ARST
Many congrats Pavel! Enjoy your accomplishment and most importantly your
family!
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 !!!
>
> A.
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>
> Pavel Bykov 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.
>>
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