<p>Hey Nikki! I’ve been to Qatar last month; awesome country! You are a junior now? Try to find out as much as possible about the college and you’ll hopefully see whether you fit in and what the college might like about you.</p>
<p>I’ve done so much research about MIT for the past year hehe. Seems to be a great place, and their philosophy of ‘follow your passion’ and stuff fits with me.</p>
<p>Also, I live in Qatar, but I’m from India. :P</p>
<p>@nikki93</p>
<p>When you receive the contact information of your Educational Counselor (AKA your interviewer), you should email them and ask them if it’s okay for you to bring your laptop.</p>
<p>@Nikki93: What’s your favourite programming language? I know a lot of C, but I don’t have time to program, my programming skills are quite low.</p>
<p>@edoardo: I’ve worked with QBASIC, Python, Haskell, LISP, C++, Cg, C and ASM, and dabbled in IO, Ruby and Squirrel. I use C++, Cg and Python on a daily basis (the ‘core’ of my game is written in C++, with the ‘scripting’ in Python - think of it as a play with actors breathing, walking etc., that’s ‘core’, but what they must say/act, that’s ‘script’. Cg is for shaders). I find C++ to be a great general purpose langauge - I can get low and down-to-the-machine like in C (or even insert ASM in between) while being able to work as high-level as I want with the various abstraction layers you can create with object oriented concepts. I’ve found Python to be great for what I use it for - game scripting.</p>
<p>Some people say that Python is ‘more high level’ and C++ is ‘more low level’ - but I think this is just dependent on interface provided by the libraries you use. The standard library in Python tends to provide more with a higher level interface than the respective one in C++.</p>
<p>Anyway - beyond a certain point the language doesn’t matter much. You’ll find yourself using ideas that you encoutered while writing code in a language in another similar language. It’s like chess - just learning the rules doesn’t make you a master. The rules are simple. How you can use them to make it do what you want - that’s what matters. I find keeping code simple, clear, concise, and elegant is a lot more important at this level. At a higher level, design principles, algorithms etc. play a much greater role, and are usually something you’ll think about a lot more.</p>
<p>On an entirely unrelated note, have you check out [my</a> website](<a href=“http://nikki93.github.com/]my”>http://nikki93.github.com/)? 
Do check out the ‘Projects’ section, and my latest project, ‘GraLL 2’.</p>
<p>we all know scores are just part of the process. it’s still quite upset. it’s like accusing us of doing nothing worthwhile other than cramming for tests. no i dont buy the claim that we didnt do enough.
apparently we need gold iXo medals, if no ‘great difficulty’ came along our way. mit expects them from rich, non-urm, international applicants. mit has its research facility for america, not necessarily the world</p>
<p>well, it makes me feel better to think that MIT are just recruiting Mathletes or manual labour researchers for Putnam/UROP because the Ivies are also recruiting them abroad. just saying</p>