Settling in MIT

With Surya, who is doing a Comp Sci PhD at MIT 

Boston Lights. 2 Oct

MIT Singapore Students Society Welcome Reception on 25 Sep. From left: Ang Jie Jun, Li Anqi, Lim Min, Jit Wu (Harvard), Surya

With fellow Singaporeans

Cruise event

Ashdown House

Offer Letters from MIT and Cambridge

 

Masters Applications and Admission Results

Undergrad Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Major: Mathematical Sciences (Class of 2017)
GPA: 4.97 / 5

GMAT (taken in Oct 2020):

Overall Score: 720
Quantitative: 51/51
Verbal: 35/51

Reasoning: 8/8
Analytical Writing: cancelled due to covid19

Program Applying: Master of Finance

Applied to:
Cambridge: Accepted on 17 Mar (with interview & test)
MIT: Accepted on 12 Mar (with interview & test), Attending!

Oxford: Rejected on 10 Dec (without interview)

Princeton: Rejected on 6 Mar (with interview & test)
Stanford (Computational Finance): Rejected on 26 Feb (without interview, did not take GRE)

HP Spectre

Lim Min just bought a HP Spectre from COMEX 2018.

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* 7th Gen Intel Core i7-8550U (1.8 GHz base frequency, up to 4 GHz with Intel Boost Technology, 8 MB Cache, 4 cores)
* Windows 10 Home 64
* 16 GB LPDDR3-2133 SDRAM (onboard)
* Intel UHD Graphics 620
* 512 GB PCle NvMe M.2 SSD
*13.3" diagonal FHD IPS micro-edge WLED-backlit touch screen with Corning Gorilla Glass NBT (1920 x 1080)
* Full-size island-style backlit keyboard
* 1.11 kg
* 2 Years International Warranty
Bundled: McAfee LiveSafe

Cost: S$2439 (original $2899)

Dean's List Academic Year 2016/2017 - Mathematical Sciences

Linkedin Lim Min and NTU

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Linkedin NTU

NTU Convocation 2017

Photos in Graduation Gowns

NUS and NTU 2016/2017 Semester 2 Exam Results

Lim Li's CS honours module

Lim Min's Final Year Project grade and her 6th consecutive perfect Semester GPA. Her final GPA is 4.97.

Student Exchange at NUS

Lim Min is currently having student exchange at NUS, besides working 3 days a week at Garena for her internship.

She is taking the following 2 modules:
LSM2251 - Ecology and the Environment
This module introduces students to the science of ecology and its role in explaining environmental processes. It covers both the major concepts and their real-world applications. Topics include organisms in their environment, evolution and extinction, life history strategies, models in ecology, population biology, ecological interactions, community ecology, ecological energetics, nutrient cycling and landscape ecology. Lectures will include both global, regional and local examples and concepts are revisited during practials, field trips and project work.

MA4251 - Stochastic Processes II
This module builds on ST3236 and introduces an array of stochastic models with biomedical and other real world applications. Major topics: Poisson process, compound Poisson process, marked Poisson process, point process, epidemic models, continuous time Markov chain, birth and death processes, martingale.

Garena Singapore Internship

Lim Min has just started her internship at Garena Singapore.

The internship at Garena Labs will be from Jan to May 2017, 3 days a week, as she still has one more module to clear before her graduation from NTU in Aug 2017. She will start her fulltime job at GIC Singapore from end Aug.

About Garena Labs Internship Programme (information is extracted from Garena's website):

Garena Labs is the company’s R&D department. It consists of a team of highly experienced and talented developers with strong technical capabilities and a keen eye for detail. At Garena Labs, we design and build software to serve over 140 million users across Southeast Asia and Taiwan. We develop innovative products and services that make a real difference in society and continuously challenge ourselves to push new boundaries in entertainment, social, commerce and financial services sectors.

Talented engineers are the driving force for Garena to grow further and the introduction of Garena Labs Internship Program serves to unleash the potential of bright young talents. As such, we are looking for candidates who are exceptionally outstanding, who take coding seriously and understand computer programming as a science.

As a software engineer intern, you will gain first-hand experience working on Garena’s leading platform to enhance user experience. You will also have the opportunity to work alongside top engineers to gain valuable insights on how to build a scalable and high performance software platform. This is a highly rewarding role as your contributions will directly impact the lives of millions of people in the region.

Individuals with outstanding performance will be invited for a full-time position at Garena.

For more information on the various Garena's internship programs, refer to here.

Welfare for Garena's employees - plenty of food supplies (see below) and dinner is catered for anyone working overtime.

NTU 2016/2017 Semester 1 Exam Results

Lim Min's Final Year Semester 1 Exam Results:

Another Semestral GPA of 5.0

Photos from Heidelberg, Germany

Off to Heidelberg, Germany

Lim Min's friends sending her off at Changi Airport.
From left: Alexandra, Jia Rong, Debra and Lim Min

Lim Min is participating in the 4th Heidelberg Laurette Forum (HLF) held in Heidelberg, Germany, from 18 to 23 September 2016. Hotel acommodation and forum costs are sponsored by the HLF organiser, whereas her air tickets are paid for by NTU SPMS.

About the HLF

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is a one-week event combining scientific, social and outreach activities. The winners of the most prestigious awards in Mathematics and Computer Science, the Abel Prize, the Fields Medal (including the Nevanlinna Prize for contributions in “Mathematical Aspects of Information Science”), and the ACM Turing Award are invited to participate in the Forum.

Each year the Scientific Committee of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation decides on a topical focus for the upcoming forum. This is done in close communication with the laureates.

Once the focus has been defined, applications from young scientists for participation in the forum are solicited. The first phase of the application process is primarily handled by the award granting organizations, supported by the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Mathematisches Forschungszentrum Oberwolfach and by Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics. The candidates proposed by these organizations will be reviewed by the Foundation’s Scientific Board, which will make the final decision.

Programme

Associate with GIC Pte Ltd

After her 10-week internship (end May to early Aug 2016) with GIC, Lim Min has been selected to join the GIC Professional Programme as an Associate. Four other fellow interns have also been similarly offered a permanent position with GIC.

She is now in her 4th/final year at NTU Mathematical Sciences, and will start work with GIC's Technolgy Dept upon graduation, in end July 2017. The salary is confidential; I can only say it is rather attractive.

Dean's List Academic Year 2015/2016 - Mathematical Sciences