Transcend and Transform – 2010

My Mundane Existence @  2010 大事回照顧

A Year of Transition:
I added a major, I went to Japan for a dream-come-true summer
I visted 12 airports in one year.
I am a Junior, finally living up a normal campus-lifestyle, at my own will, after 2.5 years of chaos.

Just like any other year, 2010 could be truncated to: Spring-Summer (Japan)-Fall. For I am such a malleable person,  my mindset/behavior differed significantly in these 3 stages. I already forgot who I was in Spring..seriously. Anyway, just like any other year, I will just try to summarize  (factually,,,academic/career/travel) my year below.

song of the year: 飛女正傳 – Miriam Yeung

January:

  • Okinawa 沖縄. I like 自駕遊 and precious time with my parents and brother. I love the Churaumi aquarium! I always tell my friends that I dont have to go to ANY other aquarium anymore in my life after going to churami !
  • McCormick. moved out from Simmons to this all-girl dorm. Having a single room for the first time in my life! I love the enchanted window view..hv taken so many pics of it already in all 4 seasons.
  • Weeklong IAP classes. I was so happy that I could still register for 6 units of classes. My first course 6 class – Intro to MATLAB, and also a project-based class Delivering Energy at Scale.
  • Death of JD Salinger.

February:

  • Fluid Mechanics. Probability. Accounting. Microecon. Lab.
  • Archery. my 2nd PE lesson after Square folk dance XD
  • UA Committee of Sustainability + Alpha Phi 0mega. motivated to expose myself more to campus activities…got 1K grant for the light bulb exchange thing. maybe the only constructive impact i’ve ever made in these 3 years..
  • 1.oo TA. started my TA life…coz I really wanted some solid academic experience. probably mentioned many times already, but it was REALLY challenging :S …it’s like going to a battlefield. (someone complained to the professor that I was leaking out solutions…! totally not the case….luckily everything went okay.)
  • 6.041 a sophomore exploratory tragedy. 多番力輓狂瀾,最終屍沈大海。有時有恆心也未必成功T_T
  • IHI offer. it’s even happier than getting MIT offer ..i am still so thankful that MIT help realizing my dream!!

March:

  • Texas Hold’em. finally learned how to play poker … was bluffing days and nights on fb. 衝動是魔鬼!冷靜冷靜!
  • At the stage of revenge..was emotionally manipulated by JY till June.
  • Yale University at spring break. such a gothic school.

April:

  • Bill Gates seminar. Another notable person added to “BeyoniMeeting…” series XD
  • JPM W1nn1ng W0men. my first exposure to a real ibank and a real talented group of ambitious ladies.
  • Declared double major after the above event.

May-August:

  • BRASS RAT ! yay~ i feel kind of surprised that I still haven’t lost my brass rat : p
  • completed Salter’s Duck. after hours and hours of construction and modification..video here.
  • !!!!!!!!!!! JAPAN !!!!!!!!!!!!! please visit my old blog entries for details (lazy) …happiest beyoni ever ^_^ also did my very first face-to-face interview in my life hahaa
  • Shanghai. went to Shanghai, Hangzhou and World Expo with teresa ho :3 my best friend since 11 years old
  • Byebye Grandpa. grandpa passed away when I was in Japan. now I always pray to him :)
  • NEW WATCH after 7 years!!

September:

  • Microecon Theory. Linear Algebra. Finance Theory. Linguistics. Stats.
  • Completed PE requirements! Yoga and Archery.
  • Beyoni-cant-cook. bought a rice cooker with me ..but..
  • got my life-changing IPOD TOUCH!!!!
  • Escaped to Virginia for Lady Gaga concert, Monticello and Jenny liu <3
  • Visited Atlantic City for birthday celebration
  • started grading for 14.o1 and 1.oo ..$$
  • 吹水大排擋 , campusfood became a major part of my campus life too @_@

October:

  • PHOENIX CONCERT. my favorite band concert at Boston University! yo
  • B0st0n Career Forum!! got the newest ipod nano :p
  • BROKEN MACBOOK >__<. lived through a college life WITHOUT a laptop…have to study in computer room.  bought a new table lamp and monitor just for it.
  • infected face -.- (thanks bro for reminding), gotta sterilize all my blankets and x.

November:

  • Brown University. first time appearing on a (non-hong kong) newspaper!!
  • Tetris,iTrade,義海豪情。

December:

  • Cape Cod.
  • found out that I have a shifted lower jaw : <
  • after a friendship crisis..first time realizing I have no personality, talent nor interests.

My GPA finally stops falling with a straight-line depreciation rate of 0.1  …time to celebrate?

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