My friend and classmate at Sodiq School finally got into a top university on his gap year. The amount of work he put into his growth during this time is note-worthy. College application stress is real, and the relief at the moment you open your scholarship package is surreal. I felt that for Mustafo. Good luck at college, mate!

Rediscovering home Last weekend, I took some walk with my friends around Samarkand. We went to Shakhi Zinda and Silk Road Samarkand. I decided to share some interesting aspects of my experience of my hometown. 1. It might seem that for locals and people…

1. Then, we went to Silk Road Samarkand (the place that hosts all big events in sam). The place is good to just walk around and enjoy the scenery. Because we went there on a cold afternoon, there was no soul and it was a complete silence. Before, I thought noise pollution in cities wasn't a big deal. But, when you experience this setting of zero human and machine noise in Boqiy shahar, your mind feels an unusual sense of relaxation. (I felt like the guy on insta who claims himself a time traveler and his videos are taken in the future) Also, because the location is outside the city and buildings are not abundant, the view gets so good that you can see how the horizon touches the ground. The presence of a canal along the pathways further complements your experience.

I will try to go more often for such walks.

1. For lunch, I advised them not to have the outspoken samarkand plov, but rather try another gem—xalisa (or halim). I honestly prefer the latter. I don't understand why it's so underrated, some people haven't even heard of it.

A slap in the face.

Yesterday was the ED deadline for most universities. I seriously started preparing my application in September. I got my essays written, test scores increased, rec letters ready. And yet, one day before the deadline I decided not to apply to my target university and keep it for ED 2.

All of this was due to a single big mistake I made throughout the last two months: I never got expert feedback on my essays. And just to confirm my essay was "good", I sent it for review a day before the deadline. Then, I was told I wasn't ready and would likely get rejected if I applied. I decided not to repeat last year's mistake of applying a raw application and changed my mind of applying ED 1.

Conclusion: Always get feedback on your work (especially when the work seems good). The lack of feedback creates an illusion that everything is going good and you've got wonderful ideas. And constructive feedback is an interruption, like a slap in the face.

A computer scientist jointly winning a Nobel Prize in physics for his works in machine learning using artificial neural networks.

And two other computer scientists winning a Nobel Prize in chemistry for creating an AI model that predicts protein folding. What a year for AI.

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