Finished applying to a few master's degrees and summer schools. Now the most important is to emotionally and physically be ready to get rejected from every single one of them. Simply, sit down and imagine the world with rejections...

And the lion always surrounded by jackals slowly turned into a cat.

"Not curious. Agressive - intellectually agressive"

Marilyn Vos Savant
p.s. Words busying my mind these days. Vos Savant has the highest recorded IQ. Her description explains so many things about smart people.

“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”

Blaise Pascal

p.s. that is - great minds are there looking for a different perspective to look at an ordinary thing.

It's PoliTo

I love the university I study at - PoliTo. But just like in any other institution, my university has some organizational inconsistencies which lead to some funny absurdities. Here are some you may enjoy.

Because of scheduling issues, some professors rush through the course like mad while others are chill like a cube of ice:
One wizards away a behemoth integral equation and - “Students, I am not solving it. It doesn’t make sense to waste our time with such integrations.”
The other writes a simple x,y equation and - “I am doing you the ARITHMETICS, because you tend to make mistakes there.” and the guy goes on adding and multiplying.

Due to the courseload, some professors take us for Einstein-level geniuses, while others treat us as kindergarteners:
One - “The divergence of a field over an object’s volume gives the flux of the field over the surface of that object. I am not drawing it - it’s quite easy to imagine”.
The other - “Refreshing cycle is like janitors cleaning public toilets” and literally draws a public toilet with 3 stick janitors cleaning it.

And the general rule on number of course credits: You take an 8-credit course with barely 20-page notes and you have no exercises. You just do the exam straightaway.
At the same time you take a 4-credit course and take 40-page notes, and still - many days of exercise solving is waiting for you in ambush. Crazy.

Looking back, they have become funny memories for me, but at the time it was so painful to digest it all.

I don’t know how a person intentionally changes to a better version. However, if you pretend to be a person, deep inside, you are not - it backfires. Your shadow self that you try so hard to suppress grows ever stronger. Then - it finally breaks your jails. Then - it may be late.

Better be genuine - better acknowledge yourself.

G’azoliklardan o’rganganlarim!

Bir necha oy oldin shu maqolani o'qib qolgan edim. Unda Falastinlik bir qiz urush vaqtida akasidan ayrilgani haqida yozgan. O'qib ancha ta'sirlangan edim. Chunki yangiliklarda 20 ming, 30 ming, 40 mingta odam o'ldirildi deb eshitsak biz uchun bu raqamlar hech narsani anglatmaydi, lekin o'sha 40 mingta inson orasidan 1 donasi ichidan o'tgan kechinmalari haqida chuqurroq o'rgansak u qattiq ta'sir qiladi. Lekin bari bir, bu maqolani o'qiganmida bu bo'layotgan hodisalar mendan minglab kilometrlar uzoqda ekanligini his qilar edim. Lekin ishonasizlarmi yo'qmi, bir necha kun avval shu maqolani yozgan Falastinlik qiz bilan uchrashib qoldim!

To’liq o’qish.