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Being a high school sophomore from Europe, one of my most important goals is to go study in USA. I have been deciding between Stanford and MIT and decided for the latter.

But as I browse various websites, I see people saying, study hard, forget about your social life, etc … It bothers me, what exactly is it that you have to study so hard. I mean the only thing you really have to be prepared for is SAT. Do the members of the admission board only check what’s your overall SAT score or on score that’s relevant for the course. Isn’t it true that Maths and, say, Physics is much more important at MIT than Critical reading or Creative writing?

I’d started reading those child books in 1st year of elementary school – almost what every child does I guess. However my passion for books faded away as I started to use computer more extensively.
I’ve hardly read a book a year in later stages.

Now that I finished freshman year in high school I started to realize to only way to learn language is – reading. So I started reading once again, this time in English (Slovene is my mother tongue) and have read plenty so far but they were all fictitious and I reached for some philosophic books, too. Well, one so far and I still haven’t managed to read it through, it’s quite hard to read – it’s The Communist Manifesto.

It’s a long journey, getting back into reading. But it’s worth it.

I separate PHP in two different parts, the regular PHP and OOP.

Once you learn the regular PHP – using loops, functions, connection to database, wrapping those inside classes will be a piece of cake