Archive for October, 2008

31st of October, 2008

Young Computer Scientists

Posted by admin in All at 4:58 am | Permanent Link

I was asked how my older son got into programming and computer science.
He took the C programming series at the Stanford EPGY when he was in middle school and took AP Computer Science AB at high school freshman year.
At 9th grade, he got interested in competing at USACO, www.usaco.org. He went [...]



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28th of October, 2008

Opening Lines from Essays of Stanford’s Class 2012

Posted by admin in Academics, College Application at 5:30 am | Permanent Link

This is an interesting article from the latest Stanford Magazine. The admission officers shared some of their favorite opening lines of college application essays from students who were admitted.
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2008/sepoct/features/essays.html.



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28th of October, 2008

Yu Min-Hong’s Speech at Beijing University

Posted by admin in All, Values and Characters at 5:15 am | Permanent Link

My friend Yanqiu forwarded me this link. She thinks this speech is very similar to Steve Job’s “Stay Hungry, stay foolish” speech at Standford. It also tells EQ/AQ is more important than IQ. The speech is in Chinese.
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4711b54e0100ayhp.html?tj=1



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