Little victories win the war

Hope you all had a great weekend and if you still remember, on Friday last week I gave some food for your brain, something to think about. Just to remind for those who really had a great weekend and don’t remember anything about their life before the Friday evening. The main message there was that we don’t do the things, that we are obliged to do, with a great pleasure. I have mentioned that this behavior is in our human nature and has nothing to do with our personality. Even if I didn’t explicitly say that, most of you got this message behind my post. And that was the message I wanted to deliver. But today, I would like to further investigate on this topic.

You may be wondering what does my title has to do with it. Lets think of a life as a war. Wait what? War? Yes, war. Who is fighting? What are we fighting for? You are fighting and you are fighting for your better self, for your personality, for you as a human. You are fighting against your inner self, against your human nature. And every moment of your life is a battle. A battle in this war with the duration of the whole life. Let’s distinguish two fighting sides.
One side is you as a person, your intelligence, and the other side is nature. You are your personality, your character, your intelligence, something beyond your instincts, something that can carefully examine the situation and see what is bad or good for you in a long term. The nature is the nature, the fact that we are still living organisms and we have natural instincts: we see food, we tend to get it, we see danger, we fight it or run, we see something is not interesting or in other words is neither food nor danger, we start feeling sleepy. All these things are in every person alive and there is no way we can get rid of them. May be long time ago, when people didn’t come up with anything more creative than closing their caves with a huge stone, those two sides were always cooperating. Instincts and intelligence. Instincts were telling what to do and intelligence was finding the ways of how to do it better. Doesn’t matter if that was hunting, protecting your tribe or surviving the winter. Instincts and intelligence. But then comes the civilization, slowly but truly. And here were are, living the 21st century anno domini. A lot of things changed, including the alliance of human intelligence and instincts. It will be save to say that the alliance now turned to war, to a real war, with may be some truce in between. You can’t simply be in harmony with nature anymore. Nature wants one thing, but you understand you need to do the other. You can’t go sleep, just because sun did so. You can’t eat, just because you see food in front. You can’t run, just because you are afraid. This war had started early in your childhood, when you started distinguishing white from black. Waking up before the sun does so, eating only the right food in the right amounts, studying the “unnecessary for surviving” things for decades, lifting weights and putting it back down – all these doesn’t make any sense for your natural part! It doesn’t understand why you have to do that. And there begins the war. The war between nature and intelligence. Except that this is not the usual war. It never ends and the enemy will always be there. Doesn’t matter how many battles one side lost, it will still be there; weak, but still alive. Every time one side wins the battle, it becomes a bit stronger and the other side becomes weaker. Of course sometimes, truce may take a place. Two sides don’t fight all the time. But let’s focus on the battles. Your strength of will depends on how strong your spirit is. Every time you have to do something, but don’t want to, there is a battle happening inside. If there is no direct signs of danger and there is no obvious prize that you will get after you do that thing, it’s natural not wanting to do that thing. But your brains (spirit, intelligence, I don’t know what would be the correct term for it) understand that you need to do that for some obvious or not so obvious reasons. As there is a winner in every war, you either do that thing or not. But that was more than a battle, that was more than just one decision which you make and it can be forgotten. It does a contribution to your personality, your character. In other words one of the fighting sides becomes stronger and the other weaker. And the next time they meet, one has a vantage and has more chances to win the battle again. People with very strong self-discipline still have a war going inside and they still want to sleep 5 minutes more in the morning. But the battle inside of them, is more a suppression of a small insurrection of instincts, than a real battle. The nature just comes out with couple of soldiers, just to let know what it wants, just to show its position. The real authority is in not in their hands and they are mostly faced by a simple and strong NO. Was it always like that? Of course not. This is the result of continuous battles, where spirit of a human did a huge effort to win almost all the battles and it actually managed to do so. This is the result of continuous wins over nature. This is giving up the short term pleasures for a long term ones. Ultimately, the army of intelligence grew so big, that most of the battles are not more than just some noise in the back ground. These type of people barely tend to give up, rarely struggle getting up for another 30 minutes of exercise, easily follow the planned schedule. All they have to do, is to understand that they need to do it. That’s it. The rest is a matter of their physical capabilities.
And of course there are people who are the opposite. Their intelligence lost so many battles, that it is barely alive. There is no big difference between animals and those people. No ambitions, no life goals, no diligence, no effort to change their lives. They are just like a dead fish in the current. They fully obey their natural wills and it’s really hard for them to do anything, that they don’t want to do. Sometimes they fall lower than animals. Animals at least always take care of their children, doesn’t matter how hard it is. I guess it is unnecessary to say what led people to such a state. At some point, their nature just started taking over. They didn’t pay much attention to the lost battles and didn’t see their spirit getting weaker from day to day. Once they realize what it is happening, it was already very late. Getting up now is as hard as overthrowing the authority with some dozens of soldiers. Let’s not call those people "they", cause we might be among them now or in the future. You may disagree and say that you have your life under control, but it is important to mention, that those people as well never knew that their war will be lost. They never saw it coming. It is very easy not to notice that you are getting weaker. It all starts with small battles. As small as picking up the mote from the floor. You know it would be good, but you don’t want to. And you don’t. Done. The small battle lost and your spirit got a tiny bit weaker. You didn’t do your bed in the morning. Tic. Didn’t clean up the room. Tic. Didn’t help old man with heavy bags. Tic. Didn’t start early with your project and procrastinated until the last moment. Tic.. tic.. tic.. Weaker.. weaker.. weaker. You may think that those things are so tiny and irrelevant, that they don’t play any role in your life, when they actually do. You don’t see any consequences, life is good, when it actually isn’t . You keep losing those small battles, which keep weakening you. There comes the bigger one, but your spirit is weak and your natural human part is strong as never. You loose. You keep not noticing these small things, but your personality keeps being constructed. Now comes the big battle. You put yourself a goal. You decided to start running every morning or whatever else it could be. You don’t remember the last time when you were so determined, but what is important is that you are determined now. And you are going to win. At least that is what you think. But you don’t realize that you are going to war with skinny, coward, exhausted soldiers. You run the first day, the second, the third. Then you don’t have that confidence anymore. Your “laziness” takes over and you stop. That’s it. The big war was lost. Now you are even weaker, less self-confident. Then there comes another big war, another plan or a goal. You may be pumped with some cups of coffee, but you loose. You now lost your self-confidence. You are not able to follow the long term goals and start giving more freedom to your inner nature. You start preferring small pleasure now, over the long-term happiness. You don’t even realize that it all started long time ago and you start accepting yourself as you are now, as a dead fish.

As long as you only focus on big battles and let go other important things like daily self-improvement, you will keep loosing those big battles. No matter how important the battles are, you won’t be ready for them. You can start your diet or daily plan scheduling over and over, thousand times, they all will fail if you don’t develop yourself as a strong person. And the only way to do that, is by winning the small battles. It is not a sprint. It is a marathon. Every moment of your life, you are contributing to yourself, either in a good or bad way. And when you will face the big battle, you are strong and you know you will win. Try to make every day and every hour of your life a victory now and you will end up winning in the future, because little victories win the war.

Why do we give up?

Have you ever had the feeling that you can't finish the thing that you have started? Either it is a piano course or an intention to start a healthy life with daily plans. If you never had this feeling, write me the message telling the planet you are coming from. And everyone else understands how I feel. I have created this blogging website. I have created my own YouTube channel. I have started learning new language. And each activity was started after being carefully examined and not just after I had 2 cups of coffee. And what do we have now? All those were stopped and forgotten. I don’t even know what is older, my last blog post here or the United States Declaration of Independence.

Have you ever wondered why this happens? We haven’t started those things because someone kept the gun on our head. And if you are thinking that it is laziness, you are probably wrong. If laziness was your big problem, you wouldn’t even be able to read this post until this point. Not talking about making the plans that would change your life. Lack of discipline? May be. But that is completely different topic. The thing lies deep in our human psychology. Would your child be happy to help you cleaning the room if you ask him? Or would he be happier to do that if it is his own initiative? I would think any child, adult, dog, cat, butterfly, absolutely anyone has decrease of motivation to do something, if they are obliged to. It doesn’t matter what is that thing. It could be eating an ice-cream every day before going to bed. If you must, you want to do it less. That is why we study for the exams with less passion, than if you would have decided to learn that material yourself. That is why you are happier to do things, if no one expects you to do that. That is why, I stop writing posts and uploading videos. Because after the first posts and uploads, people expected me to keep doing so in the future. People even start asking when is the next video or blog post. That is the moment, when you start feeling that you are obliged to do so. People expect you to. And now, you don’t have the previous desire, you don’t have those sparkles in your eyes. And even if you keep going, that is because people, including you, expect you to, and not because you are burning with desire. And here comes the problem. At some point you realize that stopping this activity will bring you no bad consequences, no disaster, nothing scary. Zero. So, what does your human instinct say to you then? Screw it. Let’s go watch how puppy tries to jump off the sofa, because that seems more interesting now. And that is it. That is how all it ends. All your plans, diets, piano courses, online lectures, everyday jogs, weekly visits to your parents, blogging websites, YouTube channels, everything that you and others start expecting you to keep doing, but abandoning it brings no big consequence.

Now you know it is not your fault. Now you can blame your human nature and keep not sticking to the things you started. But this all brings me up to some interesting and more global thoughts. Does this all imply that you can’t have long lasting family after the marriage, because now you are expected to love and be together? Does this imply that you can’t have the job that you would love doing, independent of how much you used to enjoy it before getting the contract, which obligates you to do that thing 8 hours every day?? Those are very deep questions and there are by far more important than keeping your YouTube channel up. I would like you to leave these questions open and let you think about it. And if you do not expect me to, I may write another post with my opinion about this mystery “feature” of a humankind.

Shortly about C++

Some people love it, some people hate it and others just don't care. One of the most popular programming languages for the last decades - C++. But before going into telling about this language, I would like to start with explaining what is programming language, not. Of course I'm not doing that, because if you don't know what is programming language, you should just stop reading here and go wait for the new episode of Sherlock, which is actually coming out today :D. And now when only interested ones are left, I can start telling the story.

And the story starts back in 1979, when some really cool guy, named Bjarne Stroustrup (picture above), didn't enjoy the languages which existed those days and decided to work on a new one - "C with classes". Obviously, he wasn't full innovator and C++ is not the very first object-oriented programming language. You didn't think so, did you? Actually the first one, was Simula. It was pretty good. It had classes, objects, inheritance etc. But why didn't our friend Stroustrup enjoy it? Because Simula was slow. Other languages were fast, but weren't convenient enough for a broad development. So he decides to create something which was fast and convenient. And he started improving C, i.e. adding new features to it (like classes and objects). The C was chosen because it was general purpose, fast, portable and widely used. So he started developing it and his creature had the name  "C with classes" or "New C". There were different names, because the standard name wasn't decided. It is always like that. Similar with children, first you make a baby and then decide on name :). So, in 1983, the programming language came out with new features (e.g. single line comment with "//")  and its final name - "C++". You know from C, that "++" is an increment operator (i.e. i++).  Stroustrup says: "the name signifies the evolutionary nature of the changes from C".

The language is being developed ever since. Shortly about releases:

• 1985 - the first commercial implementation of C++ was released
• 1989 - C++2.0 was released. New features included: multiple inheritance, abstract classes, static member functions and protected members. Later feature additions:  templates, namespaces, exceptions, new casts and boolean type.
• 2011 - C++11 was released. And 11 not because it was 11th release, as some of you might have thought, but because it was released in 2011. New features and libraries added.
• 2014 - C++14 was released. Minor fixes and new features.
• 2017 - C++17 (or also called C++1z)
• 2020 - C++20

It's already 2017 and you may be wondering when will C++17 come out. I'm not really sure, if it is officially out already, but sources already tell what to expect from it. For example, C++17 introduces  std::variant. We will now be able to declare a variable and assign it different types of data. If you are not sure, if it should be float or int, just do std::variant<float, int>, which is really convenient. Another interesting fact is it's name. Why do you think it is also called C++1z? Because everyone is a bit of procrastinator and anyone can miss the deadlines :D. Due to possible delays that may occur, there was the possibility, that it won't be released in 2017, then there is no point of calling it C++17. That is why they used "C++1z" for now, to change "z" later according to the release date. But since elementary class, we usually use "x" for unknown variables, right? Why not to use "x"(C++1x) instead of "z" here? The answer is that, they already used "x" and "y" for C++11 (C++0x/1x) and C++14 (C++1y). 

Enough with names and unnecessary talking. What makes C++ so popular?

• C++ is simply fast
• it has low level access to hardware and memory
• you can use different styles of programming (OOP, procedural, functional etc.)
• it is old, hence there are lots of libraries implemented already
• easy to embed other languages

Since C++ is fast, we can observe many game developers using it. There are many reasons, why it is fast. One and the most straight forward ones is that C++ immediately compiles the code into the object file, which can be directly executed. There is no other virtual machine or whatsoever between C++ and the processor. It gives it certain speed. Another reason, is that we have full control over memory. Thus, we decide when to make some space there, check for space or empty the space. Which gives us some advantages over other languages, i.e. Java. Java has garbage collector. It is a thing, which checks for pieces of memory which are not used anymore and frees it. It might be very convenient, but you don't even know when this "servant" decides to clean up your room. In games it is really important, especially in games with a lot of objects and instances. If garbage collector will decide to run and check for all allocated memory when the game is running, it will certainly reduces the efficiency of the processor. Memory management is probably one the most important things in C++.

Other than that, it has been living since a while, so a lot of libraries are already implemented for it, which can come handy to many engineers. Also, C++ is not isolated or strict language. You can use different styles of programming and easily embed other languages.

Even though it is really convenient and fast, it is criticized a lot. If you have used C++, you may probably guess why. Imagine having a vehicle. One tool (other programming languages) gives you opportunity to ride it. Another one (e.g. C++) gives you opportunity to ride it and also to smash it into parts and make it much faster vehicle. If you don't know how to do it, the chances are high that you end up with broken vehicle.

If you are still reading this post, you should be really bored to read the whole boring and long post.

Anyways, thank you for reading!

Successful people

From time to time, I'm deep into poetry and can't get out until I create something. Now, at 2:43 AM, I decided to share one of my poems with my small audience :) Hope it will be useful and inspiring.

Successful people

Climbing the mountain’s top
The man decided to start.
From now on his actions and dreams
Are not separated, apart.

He approached the mountain’s foot,
Where he saw the sentence on stone:
“I’m starting to climb the mountain.”
Now man knows, he is not alone.

After hours and hours of climbing,
When the man’s weakened belief,
He notices another writing:
“I was here.”- on stone under leaf.

Now he knows, someone went even further,
And again his power is high,
Just because of simple idea:
“Someone did, so can do I!”.

But no matter how hard he tries,
And comes over the struggles and pain,
There are written just simple 3 words,
“I was here.” - irrefutable claim...

“How hardy indeed is this person?!
Would be great, if he helps me to climb.
How he does that? I can’t imagine!”
- were thoughts in exhausted man’s mind...

Almost dead and very tired,
He slowly reaches the top of the stone
To see the shocking and striking scene,
“I was” - written there alone.

And he sees someone laying in front,
With small piece of the chalk in his hand.
Person’s legs were faded to blood,
So were knees, tied up with the band...

Only now man understood,
He was blind and wrong in his thoughts!
Only now he sees all the struggle,
That resulted in simple 3 words.

And indeed when we see someone high,
We are somehow blind at all.
We don’t think of all the struggles,
We don’t look behind the wall...

(Temirlan Ulugbek uulu)

It's all about teamwork.

What do you do, when you are too exhausted, because of all responsibilities you have? When you are down and have no more force to get up and continue living? When the whole world turns against you, but you have to keep going? Will it be difficult for you? The answer is of course yes, but only if you are alone. Everything completely changes its colors, when you are not. In this post, I would like to write about the importance of having fellow travelers in your life.

Today is the November 1st, which means I didn't write a single post for the month of October. There are many reasons for that, mainly because I had no inspiration to do so, but also because I had a busy month. What happened in October? Midterms, hackathon, quizzes, Charity Week and again midterms. For those of you who don't know what is hackathon, it is an event, usually lasting several days, in which large number of people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming. For me, it is the only chance to forget about all the deadlines and exams for couple of days, just to enjoy the atmosphere of coding and finally try things I wanted to try since long time ago. Of course this doesn't free me of my responsibilities, but inside, I don't feel obligated during the hackathon. This hackathon was held in our university and took place during the weekends. It was full of great impressions and emotions. I spent the whole 24 hours learning and trying out mobile application development using Python-Kivy. Generally, I enjoyed it a lot, but nothing comes for free. It costed me my weekend and on Sunday night I faced the following to do list...

This to do list is not even full!! Obviously, the probability of my survival was low. But I don't believe in complete darkness. There always will be a ray of hope and this ray was my friend, who decided to not go to the hackathon. I want to tell a bit about this person. He is also a second year computer science student at my university. I don't remember how we became friends, however I remember it was in the middle of my very first semester in this university. Since then, we studied together and helped each other in different situations. We survived the large waves of exams and deadlines. I'm sure, that each of us could handle that alone, but that would be far more difficult. We are all human and we have different phases and moods in our lives. Sometimes you are just full of energy and ready to overcome any obstacles you face and sometimes you are just powerless. Life may bring to you not the happiest news or you may just be tired and exhausted. At such moments, you are just not ready to fight for your life. Those are the days, when you need the person who grabs you and carries you through the fire. And you, in its turn, must be such a person for him. You probably have seen the picture below. It perfectly describes, what I'm trying to explain. 

As you might have already guessed, after this hackathon, my friend carried me once again. That is the point, when I understood the real importance of a team. Working together when everything is okay is one thing. However when facing problems, you carry your team and team carries you. And if there is no one to carry and the whole team falls, it will hurt much less than if you were alone and getting up will be much faster than you expected. The only important thing, is to have good teammates.

I explained everything in terms of studies, just because that are the only obstacles I'm going through at the moment. But this rule applies everywhere. Wherever you are and whatever you are doing, going together is funnier and easier.

Find your team and conquer the highest peaks,

Temirlan Ulugbek uulu

My love story (Coding)

Guten Tag everybody!!!

As I wrote before, I have started studying and already "survived" the first month of those all-nighters and deadlines. This post will tell you about my first impression about the second year at Jacobs.

First of all, let me tell you about the curriculum in this university. Differing from other universities, here you get your bachelor's degree in 3 years. Thus, you don't have that first year, when you study "everything" and decide the field you want to study in. You should tighten your interests and decide on what you may want to study before coming to this university. In your first year, you choose 3 core modules and study them through your first year (in my case, they were: CS (Computer Science), ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering,) and IMS (Intelligent Mobile Systems) ). The next 2 years you continue with only one of them and get your bachelor's degree in that major.

My first year : From the first days, my plan was to study Electrical Engineering and nothing else (which is understandable, assuming my only-physics background). Since you need to choose 2 more modules, I had to take something else as well. After talking to my academic advisor (who is a computer science professor) I took CS and IMS. I was quite afraid of taking CS (which is again understandable, assuming my zero background in this field). I guess this was one of the most important decisions in my life so far. After one month of studying, I had new hobby, new goals and new plans. I became a Computer Science guy. During that year, I was slowly falling in love with this world of codes, which was completely undiscovered by me before. 

Although I completely lost my passion to study EE anymore, I had to study it until the end of the year according to the university policies. It wasn't that big of a problem in the beginning, but the workload was becoming bigger and the study material harder from week to week. But let me skip all those details and just say that I survived that year. And here comes my second year, which I was a bit scared of after the horror stories told by former second year students. After getting familiar with courses and teachers, I could again see a lot of hard work coming. Now, after one month I can say that the workload is even bigger than in the first year. So, what is the difference between the first and the second years, that I can feel so far?

The major difference is that all the courses I'm taking in the second year are from CS module, which means: no more undesirable work. Even if I have to stay awake until the early morning to finish the assignment, I enjoy it (of course this may not be true later, when harder stuff will come :P ). But for now, I even don't have any stress for studying through the nights and not understanding the lectures (well, I don't enjoy not understanding lectures, but the self-study I do afterwards). I enjoy my second year studies even more than writing blog posts :D. So now, I need to go take something to eat, to get some energy to finish this post and let you to read it. (Okay, now I feel much better).

Let me tell you about my situation around 2 years ago. I was just about to apply to universities and the question: "What do I want to do in the future?" wasn't leaving me alone even for a second. I was good at Physics and that is what everyone else was expecting me to choose. But I knew it wasn't mine. I didn't have any dream job and the quotes like "Do the work that you enjoy and you'll never have to work again" were just some unreal quotes from the motivating movies. I just didn't know anything, that I would do with the great enthusiasm (I wanted to become an actor, but I thought I won't succeed in that field a lot). Then I decided to do just what I can and applied for the Electrical Engineering at Jacobs University. And you already know what happened next. 

Comparing the two conditions (now and then), I feel just thankful, that I discovered my own world of joy. I found the way to work hard and play hard at the same time.

With best regards,

Tima

Application to the Universities. My Experience.

Hello everyone!

Disclaimer: This post will be in Russian Language. But if you don't know Russian and speak only in English, believe me, you don't need the information that I'll write below. This post will mostly contain the information, which may be needed for pupils, who are looking ahead to apply to the colleges and universities soon.

И так, начнём.
Уже сентябрь, уже осень. И мне, как к человеку который поступил учиться в университет, начали приходить волны вопросов про поступление и обучение в Германии. Раньше я отвечал на все вопросы индивидуально и если честно, иногда они заставали меня не в то время и отвечал я коротко и не очень подробно. Сейчас я решил влить в этот пост всё что я знаю и поделиться всем моим опытом поступления в университеты и в колледжи в Европе и в Америке. Сразу предупреждаю, что это было 2 года тому назад и я могу помнить мало, и могу даже дать вам устаревшую информацию. Поэтому примите этот пост просто как советы и не полностью им доверяйте :D

Если вы до сих пор это читаете, то вы скорее всего намерены серьёзно и хотите узнать как поступить именно в универы на западе. Раз так, вы наверняка знаете, что всё начинается с подговкой к SAT и TOEFL. Это два единственные теста, которые я сдавал и которых как мне кажется достаточно. Начнём с SAT.

SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) демонстрирует собой унифицированный тест, итоги которого нужны абитуриентам для зачисления в элитные американские колледжи. Недавно, формат SAT поменялся и я не владею большой информацией на счёт его нынешнего состояния, но думаю сильно он не изменился. Идеально, подготовка к SAT должна начаться как минимум за 1 год до сдачи экзамена. В нём проверяются ваши навыки английского и математики. Поэтому если вы ещё "молоды", и у вас ещё есть пару лет до этой головной боли, начинайте уже читать много книг на английском и практикуйте свои знания написанием небольших историй (конечно же на английском). Но если у вас очень мало времени, то есть сейчас уже Июнь-Июль, то могу сказать что сильно вы подготовиться к эказмену уже не сможете. Вы уже должны зарегистрироваться на сдачу SAT на его оффициальном сайте (https://www.collegeboard.org/), так как период регистрации заканчивается задолго до экзамена. Так как вам осталось совсем немного до экзаменя, чтение книг и написание рассказов сильно не помогут. Берите книгу SAT, и готовтесь по нему. Устраивайте для себя очень много тестов. Готовтесь день и ночь, возможно у вас не всё ещё потеряно. Чтобы вас промотивировать, скажу, что я тоже начал готовиться примерно в конце Июля (сдал конечно не супер, но не очень то уж и плохо). Кстати книгу не обязательно покупать. Поищите, возможно вы его найдёте, но я бы не пожадничал иные деньги на эту книгу.

SAT Subject Test - тест на подобие предыдущего, но уже проверяющий знания в других областях (в таких как математика, физика, история, испанский и т.п.). Вопросы будут немного углубленнее, но если вы хороши в каких то областях, то обязательно сдайте SAT Subject Test. Он будет дополнять другие ваши результаты и будет большим плюсом (конечно если результат хороший). За раз можно сдавать сразу по трём предметам, так что можете попытаться. И не бойтесь того что вы не добьётесь результата и это пойдёт вам на минус, единственное что вы потеряете это деньги и время, а плохой результат можно и не отправлять (никто об этом так и не узнает :D).

TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language, Тест на знание английского языка как иностранного) — cдача которого обязательна для неанглоязычных иностранцев для поступления в вузы с английским языком обучения. На него тоже нужно регистрироваться заблаговременно (https://www.ets.org/toefl). Есть два вида TOEFL: iBT & PBT. Желательно нужно сдавать iBT, так как PBT уже во многих университетах не принимается. Здесь работает тот же принцип что и для SAT. Купите или найдите книгу, учитесь, практикуйтесь и ещё раз практикуйтесь (на компьютере конечно). Здесь я могу посоветовать хороший сайт. Здесь вы можете найти очень полезные советы по подготовке к этому тесту. И помните, результат этого теста очень важен. Он должен быть желательно выше 100 (в худшем 90) что является порогом во многих универах США. Если вы набрали меньше, вашу подачу просто напросто могут не рассмотреть.

Допустим, с тестами вопрос решён. Что теперь? Где найти университеты и колледджи для поступления? И главное как и откуда подавать заявления? Информацию по многим университетам вы можете найти на самом сайте https://www.collegeboard.org/. А подавал я во многие университеты через Common App. Подавать во многие американские колледжи и университеты можно от туда, но конечно всегда есть исключения. Есть такие университеты, например MIT, подача на которые осуществляется через их собственный сайт. Найти их легко. Google вам в помошь. Главное, подавайте в разные университеты. Не цельтесь только высоко и не цельтесь только низко. Цельтесь во все стороны! Да, стоит попробовать пару наилучших, пару средних и пару более достигаемых университетов. Вы никогда не знаете что может случиться.

Ну а что касается на счёт самого процесса подачи: я почти уже ничего не помню. Но дам вам совет, начинайте всё заблаговременно и не повторяйте моих ошибок. Я провёл время перед компьютером заканчивая и отправляя свои эссе и документы, вместо того чтобы встретить новый год. Поверьте, ощущения не из самых лучших. Вам придётся писать очень много эссе, переводить очень много документов, искать учителей которые бы могли написать вам рекомендательные письма и т.д. и т.п. Важно отметить что это не из тех дел что можно закончить за 1-2 недели. То есть закончить то можно, но вас там уже вряд ли примут. После написания эссе, вы его измените раз 100 и возможно под конец даже решите что хотите написать что-то совсем другое. В общем времени у вас не так много как кажется и вы не должны откладывать всё на потом.

Ну а под конец, хочу дать немного информации про самого себя. Учусь я в Германии, но почти ничего не знаю про обучение в Германии (как бы ни странно это может звучать). Дело в том что учусь я в частном университете, где всё обучение на английском. Этот университет более американский, чем немецкий. Так что если возникнут вопросы про немецкие вузы и про поступление в университеты в Германии, вы знаете к кому НЕ обращаться :D

Вроде всё что помню написал, возможно время от вермени буду пост подправлять, если вспомню что-то важное. Написал я этот пост в большой спешке, так как моя учёба в разгаре и времени у меня не так уж и много.

Желаю всем вам успехов в поступлении и добра,

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