Baining Zhang

Baining Zhang

Sophomore at HKUST

Habits I learned from STEP

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I should recall what enabled me to do STEP problems nearly a year ago.

  1. One equation per line

  2. Clear, big writing

  3. Leave space between letters and lines

  4. Read the whole question before attempting

  5. Rest for a few seconds after finishing a question to clear your head

  6. List methods that you thought of and attempt them one by one

  7. What can’t be solved by computation, can be solved by double the computation

  8. Don’t try to judge if your method will work

  9. If you follow the above, you should make little mistakes. Believe in yourself!

  10. Drink more water

Post Midterm Brights

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Third blog post within one week! By the way I love post-midterm UST. The campus is a lot more empty.

My First HK Probability Seminar

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Yesterday, I attended my first Hong Kong Probability Seminar. Gefei Cai, from Peking, spoke about the 3 point connectivity problem in 2D critical percolation.

Week 1, Year 2 Fall

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Going into Year 2, I am rather uncertain about my goals this year. On the one hand, I have already started working my way into the field of statistical mechanics and random geometry. Yet, I lack the necessary prerequisites to get into some of the more ‘pure’ fields. The biggest roadblock is certainly stochastic processes and stochastic calculus. Complex analysis is also necessary, but I feel like somehow I can intuit my way through this while checking some references.