November 2011

How To Ace Your SAT In The Least Time Possible

November 19, 2011

A lot of students stressed out when it comes to SAT. This happens to most Malaysian students because well, it is outside of our comfort zone. We are not used to the US education system and suddenly have to take this exam to study in the US. If this doesn’t apply to you, well, lucky [...]

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The Formula That Killed Wall Street

November 18, 2011

I’d chanced upon a very interesting read about the cause of the financial crisis from Wired. The author suggests that misuse of David X. Li’s Gaussian Copula formula is to blame. I highly recommend reading the full article. Here is a short except from the article that particularly interest me. Li’s copula function was used [...]

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US University Application Timeline

November 18, 2011

Now, this is where things get a little tricky. I could not emphasize enough how important it is to keep thing organized. So, what I did in the past was to prepare a spreadsheet (you can do whatever that fits you). Inside, I set up everything with details and the deadlines. I will create another [...]

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US Education–What Makes It Different From Others

November 15, 2011

The information here are mostly from my personal experience. I had went through the whole process back in those days, and also from other applicants that I helped out with – my friends and aspiring applicants who contacted me. I started this because I want to see more Malaysians apply to the US, in particular [...]

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Have Laser Sharp Focus by Coming Back from the Brink

November 3, 2011

My mother used to tell me, “If what you are doing is worth doing, then do it with your best effort.” And how are you supposed to bring out your best effort? By having a laser sharp focus, concentrating all your energies into executing the plan until it bores fruit. When I was in college, [...]

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The Fall of MF Global and the Greece Issue

November 1, 2011

MF Global Holdings is the latest of the high profile bankruptcies that I had been reading on. In many ways, its fall was quite similar to Lehman Brothers. I attributed its collapse to two main cause – overleveraging and weak economic environment. MF Global was a brokerage firm. It was supposed to execute orders for [...]

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