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?