Ximik from Far Far Away

a random post

The weekend was nice. I spent Friday-Saturday at school, solving some chem problems with peers that came to my school from different places. Saturday evening, went to Speilberg's “The Terminal” with Tom Hanks. A great movie. I also watched “The Incredibles” this morning - nice.

My friend (ex-classmate, university student right now) came for the winter brake and explained me all the terrible details of college life. He's studying in the capital.

Talking about the traffic here: Osh is a small city and I think that there're too many cars for such place. I didn't know what a traffic jam was five years ago. Now, they are everywhere. We are close to Uzbekistan and they produce relatively cheap DAEWOO cars. everybody here buys a car or two: people here get wealthy!

Our car is a nine-year old VAZ 21099.

counting days to the decisions.......... that's hard

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I want to congratulate all prospective 37th IChO participants! The preparatory problems have been posted!

Anlytical (pdf)

Inorganic (pdf)

Organic (pdf)

Physical (pdf)

If you want, we can discuss those problems here (if that's legal).

Jane, I believe that we were talking about this:

movie...

go, Linkin Park, GO! I bought “Live in Texas” today, and that's great!!!!

Can put some ticks

The first days of the week were great. I recieved an “admitted” email from IUB yesterday. Today was the experimental round of our Olympiad and I'm still the first. Waiting for Nationals....

I watched the “Ocean's 12” today. well... can't say that it was better than the first one but the case with lifting a house and then finding there a tape from another thief was ammusing. have “The Incredibles” on my HDD but can't find an appropriate codec.

Best Kurban!

Today was a perfect day! For Kurban, we went to our village. Yeah, I’m from a Kyrgyz village, even though I was visiting it for the first time in my life. My grandpa was a great person there and there’s even a High School named after him. So we were pretty popular there. People were staring at me and at my brother as if we were dinosaurs. First, because we’re Kamal’s grandchildren; second, because we are from the city.

 Here's a couple of views from there (Photobucket - click to enlarge):

 We also found a huge icicle:

 And I was riding a horse:

 The day was really nice till we get on the way. The roads were snowy and we had to stop several times to push our car. Finally we arrived home an hour later than we had to, with dirty clothes.

Anyway, I’m glad with the trip.

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Good Luck, h88: hope you're gonna have 3x800

Well done Asli, I wish you to get a suitable finaid from Moneyman.

...it's going on...

Happy Holidays, again!

The study week was great and rather short. I was solving the MIT’s 5.13 exams. The results are satisfactory. I was also solving Dilaram’s puzzle on chess: we had to give both rooks and then mat. Here’s a snapshot taken by my classmate.

And the preparatory problems of 37th IChO are going to be posted on Feb. 1. I hope to participate this year, too. Here’s a great olympiad server.

Additionally, Happy Einstein Jahr!

(Albert and Schwester)

First study week of 2005

and that is over. The whole week I was reading the book by T. Recce “Etudes About The Universe”. Basics of relativeity, cosmology, astrophysics and modern theoritical physics were enlighted there. I also self tested myself three times by the some colle Organic Chemistry I exams. Results are not that bad, even though I've forgot Sn2, E2 and anti-Markovnikov brominations mechanisms. Stereochemistry also caused some problems. This week we had Calculus, Geometry, Physics and some humanities (studied Bulgakov at Russian Literature). Wow! google turned Kyrgyz...

I've noticed that guys from Harvard visited my blog. Well, I'm not afraid to say that MIT is my first choice place and I'll go to Harvard only if I'm rejected at MIT and admitted there (by this phrase I have cut my way to Harvard...).

Here's my college list:

 Harvard College

 METU

 Moscow State University

by the way, do you know anything about my last college? at least you can see how it looks:

this is the main building + Departments of Physics and Chemistry. beautiful...

NEWS:

Cassini-Huygens is already on the Titan... we are stiil waiting to know whether there is life... for further info visit NASA's or ESA's pages.

New Semester begins + smth on Olympics

Hey Folks,

Tommorow I'm going to school and my last semester in High School starts. It means that I'm gonna be offline till Friday.

I wanted to talk about the Chemistry Olympiads, since people might be interested... Well. the whole High School Olympics were invented to make students interested in exact fields by early ages. People liked competitions and they decided to hold Academic Tournaments. First ones were in Math. Then, all those Regionals, States, Nationals and Internationals in different subjects appear. Nowadays, Olympiads are different in different countries. While there are only 30 students to participate in Icelandish National Chemistry Olympiad, there are ~100,000 in Chinese. The tougher the context, the harder the problem and the stronger the students. That's why China beats everyone in almost every Olympiad. Their National competition is even harder than IChO (International Chemistry Olympiad).

IChO - the International Competition between High School Student, held every year in different countries. A medal from this Olympiad gives you a lot of benefits in college applications (also to MIT). The 37th IChO is going to be in Taiwan, mid-July, 2005. People from every continent take part. The strongests countries are China, India, Iran, Korea, Slovakia, Romania and Poland. The Last IChO was held in Germany. The best team was Chinese, but the best student was from Russia.

Any questions?

The year 4x501 and how I met MIT

I was watching TV today. Do you know that we still watch Russian channels? On the “First channel” there was a program about the most significant things that were in 2004. Yeah, that year has changed the minds of people. First of all they talked about terrorism. And we remembered all the terrible things of that year: Beslan, Iraq, Netherlands, Spain, Egypt, Chechnya and Moscow. Terrorists are among us and everyone can become a victim. They said: “The War is Begun”, and that sounded scary.

Then they spoke about the biggest catastrophes of 2004. Tsunami. Nearly 170000 victims, and “the heaven on the Earth” crashed. They spoke about Florida, too. And there was a very interesting comparison: ”Developed Countries paid Dollars, Developing Countries – people lives”. September in Florida was stormy. There were many other examples…

The 2004 was also the year of elections and several revolutions. Putin in Russia and Bush in United States. “Roses’ Revolution” in Georgia and “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine.

And it spoke about people that died last year. First of all, Yasser Arafat. The future of Palestine and Israel is being decided today, on the Elections of new commander, that’s going to be instead of Arafat.

Sport. There was the European Soccer Championship and the Olympiad in the country of champions. And, of course, they mentioned Sharapova, Myskina and Dementyeva with their triumph in different tennis tournaments.

The dollar went down, last year and the prices in the shops dropped. Everyone has bought smth new. The petrol in USA became very expensive.

2004 was really an extraordinary year.

Here I want to tell about, how I decided to apply to MIT. First time, I heard about this extraordinary place in the ninth grade. My friend told me that there’s an Institute in Massachusetts that is the best in the world. “The best in the world” – that was printed in my memory. I’ve participated a Chemistry Olympiad in Moldova. The way home was through Moscow and we met Math Team of Kazakhstan in the plane. There was a guy, who had a Gold Medal from IMO (!). We talked a lot and I asked about his college plans. He said that he was admitted at MIT. I was shocked, that was like to accelerate to the speed of light for me. And asked how he did that. His answer was: “Easy. Just visit their website, ask for application, fill it in and take three, relatively easy tests”. That’s how I’ve found web.mit.edu and further my.mit.edu, but I had to wait the whole summer to start my online application. And that’s how I found out how US college admissions work and what SAT is.

4-D, Thnx to prof. Einstein

People say that when you explain some topic, you yourself start to understand it better. so let me talk about 4-D space.

Actually, we live in 4-d space. The forth dimension is time. It's hard to imagine 4-D. Three dimensions have equal power (if we look at the cube, we can hardly find it's width, since that could be its height). So the forth dimension must have the same power. Thus,we can say that some object has it's length, width, height and time. But nobody says time in this case. People use the term “global line” (I've translated it from Russian “mirovaya liniya“).

Now, let's suppose a point, which is not moving. After some time it starts to move in some direction. This can be drawn as:

where the red line is the global line of point's motion. The point, where the global line and x-axis intersect is the moment, when our point starts its motion. From here, we can say that there's no motion. It's just a global line - another dimension of our point. Right now is considered to be a cut of space that moves upwards in time.

thnx to relativity.ru

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all those global lines should be changed to worldlines (I've referred to the dictionary, but don't wanna change my original post)

467996th cluster and application to MIT

Right now, I'm calculating the geometry approximation of Zinc's some complex. It eats RAM. Before this, Scandisk was checking the surface of my HDD (it took 2 hours) and it found out that the cluster No. 467996 was damaged (btw that was a system cluster).

Let me talk about application to MIT. I'm applying as an international student and my score requirements are: TOEFL and 2 SAT II's. And my Math IIc score is not that high :{... Although I've sent my app, I want you to comment my essay(pdf).

Did you send supplementary materials?

I'm sending a research paper about the reaction between compounds, named MIT and MED. The product looks like:

You can download the pdf here.

Discuss that too, plz!

Greetings! ("Poyehaly!" of Gagarin is suitable here)

Hello! I'm Meder, a prefrosh from Kyrgyzstan. Where is that? That is pretty far from Cambridge, MA. Our time difference for example, is 10 hours. We are about 170⁰ far. I love Chemistry, Rock Music, Chess and MIT. I really want to study there! Right now, I'm studying at the Kyrgyz-Turkish Sema High School for Boys and here is our website. This is a website of my class.

Here's a view on our school building