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I'm the Bluegyptian. AMA
By Ahmadsm2005, history, 16 months ago, In English

You might have heard about the "Bluegyptian". This is me! Although I am orange on CF, I am forever blue in reality. Ask me anything!

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why do you not participate in any contest since February 2022?

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    afraid to lose master

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      Same as you. Afraid to lose div3-gained expert.

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        well maybe but I am trying to become cm soon, I am solving problems offline

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    That is a good question. Since August 2022, I have been busy with my final year(where I took 3 A levels in my final year) + college admissions wasted a lot of my time. I simply felt that I am not that fit for Div 1 as I was not practicing like before. Though, I often enter Div 2/3 unofficial. But as I have been free for like a month, maybe I should consider re-joining Div 1's!

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      English A-Levels? Maths, FM, CS? Do you not find these extremely easy?

      (will you go to British Uni?)

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        Maths, FM, CS, and Physics(4 A levels). I found A.L maths, CS relatively easy. A.L Physics was good and A.L Further maths wasn't that easy as I took A.L Cambridge board Further maths.(should have taken A.L Further Maths Edexcel. It has decision maths I could've took it instead of Mechanics 2(or it is called Further Mechanics in Cambridge)) Btw, Cambridge modules are ALL harder in terms of problems/questions difficulty unlike Edexcel which has only its further pure modules are harder(and you take extra A.L maths modules(mechanics, statistics, decision)). The real challenge was that I took in my last session A.L Further maths + A.L physics and that session was only around 6-7 months long and I am always targeting all A*s in all subjects(might miss the A* in further maths tho due to its extremely high A* curve).

        I won't go to British Uni but taking GCSE A levels is a good choice in Egypt as APs are quite unpopular here and not accepted in Egyptian Unis(my safety choice in case I wasn't accepted with full scholarship/financial-aid abroad) and Egyptian national education is quite inflexible and weaker in terms of academics strength in uni applications. I got into KAIST tho with full scholarship and waitlisted at CMU-Q(Carnegie Mellon University Qatar)(expecting full ride if I got in from the waitlist).

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          Good shit man! Enjoy Korea (if you end up there) and have a happy and healthy live. There might be language barrier. (Edexcel D1 is a bit boring.)

          The UK is a rather nice country with quite good universities and is welcoming to foreign students. I would wholeheartedly anyone to apply to Oxford or Cambridge and others.

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            Thanks! In fact, KAIST studies is in English and only one of the requirements is just basic Korean language to be able to make simple interactions with Koreans who don't understand English.

            The issue with UK is that it rarely gives full financial-aid or full scholarship. I think Oxford gives only to 4 Arab per year full scholarship which makes it hell competitive. I think Imperial College London also gives to only 10-20 internationals full scholarship which is again competitive. KAIST gives to any accepted international student full scholarship to encourage diversity.

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How did you manage to survive without indentation and what convinced you to indent your code?

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    You won't believe it if I told you xD as it is a really silly reason. I took A level computer science in October/November 2022 session. I realized that there is a practical exam where you have to either code in Visual basic or Python or Java. ONLY one of those. So I picked python as it was the simplest one of those 3 options(and visual basic is a semi-dead language with weird syntax). Unfortunately, I got used to code with indentations as python forces me to indent and from then, I couldn't revert back to my original style! I now realized that indenting code feels better for the eyes.

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is egypt developed?

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    No, we live in huts in the Sahara desert by the Nile.

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      That doesn't make sense, you mean pyramids right?

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    Seriously speaking, there are cities which are developed. I live in Alexandria, which is the second biggest city in Egypt or at least the second most populated city in Egypt. I can't say that it is a fully developed city as it has obvious flaws.(very poor rain drainage system, poorly developed government websites, automation isn't common, some parts of the city are poorly built and built without planning, ...) But this doesn't mean that it is completely undeveloped. Most citizens are living in apartments with most appliances available to everyone here(refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, televisions, good access to the internet(up to 100Mb/s and the common plan is 30Mb/s. Unfortunately, a lot of areas in Alexandria never reach 30Mb/s due to outdated cables(built tens of years ago)))

    As Healthcare, expenses and cost of living, healthcare in Egypt isn't expensive BUT public sectors healthcare is USUALLY(NOT ALWAYS) not good. Private sector healthcare is better but more expensive. Food here in Egypt is quite cheap compared to first world countries but Egyptian citizens median income per annum is very low compared to first world countries. Apartments here aren't that expensive to buy compared to a lot of countries outside. But due to the EXTREMELY low median income, an average person would take more than 10 years of working to buy a good apartment here in Alexandria. The lower percentile(bottom 25%) might take more than 20 years of working to buy a good apartment in Alexandria!

    As for education, it is usually split into some categories. There are public schools and those are the most common here(they are the cheapest in Egypt). Usually these schools are split by gender after grade 6(for Azhar schools(explained later) and grade 9 for public schools) meaning that there is no co-education in these schools after the specified grade.

    There are private national schools. Higher fees and the same education as public schools except that they take more advanced English(as only very basic English is taught in public schools) plus they usually take a 3rd language(French or German or Spanish I think). Those schools some of them are co-educational and some of them are not.

    There are the Nile schools. Exactly like the IGCSE/GCSE A level system but more inflexible. They are endorsed by Cambridge International Examinations. They are more cheaper than International schools.

    There are private international schools. Even higher fees than private national schools. There are the I.B, IGCSE/GCSE A level, American systems in these private schools. Some of these schools give scholarships though which is a nice thing if you cannot afford them but you are academically strong.

    There are Al Azhar school which is similar to public schools in terms of fees and education except that they are more oriented towards Islamic studies.

    Finally, there are STEM schools. Boarding schools which are more rigorous than public schools and harder to get accepted into them. Usually, they cost as much as public schools.

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      these schools are split by gender after grade 6

      my sympathy towards egyptians

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        Lol. Btw, richness is correlated with more westernized mindsets(including cultural difference between genders) here in Egypt(less girls would wear hijabs or they wear it relative to poorer areas(correlated) more late for Muslims, more students dating or having a relationship, and more exposed clothing). But some rich people don't do that it is just a non strict correlation no more and the vice versa is also a correlation not a strict one.

        An example is that the most expensive schools that is located in Cairo, opposite genders hugging, entering relationships/dating/... each other is normalized between students. In my school, entering relationships/dating/side-hugging(side hugging not necessarily normalized and more dependent of the current students who are all in the same year) is normalized(but hugging is not normalized) between students. Considerable amount of students from public schools don't even normalize hand-shaking opposite gender peers/students but again there is the vice versa case.

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