https://brightonxu.com/tags/debrief/Recent content in Debrief on Brighton's BlogHugozh-CNFri, 06 Feb 2026 03:30:00 +0800https://brightonxu.com/posts/en/2026-02-06-mcm-icm-review/Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:30:00 +0800https://brightonxu.com/posts/en/2026-02-06-mcm-icm-review/<div class="article-description" style="text-align: center; font-size: 1.3em; color: #555; margin: 20px 0 30px 0; font-weight: 500;">Well, at least we finished.</div> <p>There was no particular reason for it — I&rsquo;d never touched math modeling — I was simply invited to the MCM on short notice. I skimmed how the contest worked, felt it was a decent fit for my tech stack, and said yes. Fully aware that the result would do almost nothing for my grad-school applications, I barely prepared beforehand: a rough search of the contest&rsquo;s usual playbook and other people&rsquo;s debriefs, and then straight in.</p>