Apple Tech Talk 2011 - Berlin

Not much about the event but what happened before changed my life.

3 minute read

As all iOS developers know tickets for this year conference were booked almost immediately. At first, I thought that the scale of the event will be much bigger (however doing it in 9 cities is not piece of cake – if it all will be as well organized as the one in Germany). I’ve counted about 350 seats in the room where the KickOff part took place – as usual, started with some statistics – which is very typical for Apple.

Writing the college admission essay

The do's and don'ts of writing an admission essay from a foreign perspective.

4 minute read

Let me start with a little introduction. In 2010 I was about to graduate from the Military University of Technology in Warsaw (engineer degree - sort of bachelor degree but fancier) and I decided that I will apply to a few of ivy league schools - my grades were not outstanding, my English not perfect and financially it was impossible without scholarship but I thought, what the heck, I will try anyway. In Poland when we apply for a college we have to take some exams - basically what we do is we…