Cash is King…Euler is King?

回校至今竟還能堅持早睡早起的良好習慣,每早更有時間吃個oatmeal當breakfast。凌晨跟某君webcam後即呼呼大睡,在鬧鐘響前自然醒來,本人亦嘖嘖稱奇。but某君說得對,到weekend都要keep住,禁止午睡!(但亦因為每天都食早餐,到星期四已經把dining plan one week 的quota 吃光了,meal plan balance for the week = zero -_-)

雖然已經是final semester,只讀4門課 (Fluid Mechanics | MATLAB Modeling | Business Analysis | Chinese Web Culture),但頭幾天卻extremely exhausting。好多瑣事要去處理,而最費神的是要walk up to strangers 跟同班同學自我介紹,otherwise就沒有人跟我對pset答案了。累

今天放學急急腳走出班房,竟然有人從後大叫:“f10n1!“,as an outcast I was kind of surprised。原來是前幾天認識的M.Fin,
他走上前問“do you have a team yet?有無人同你一組?”
我還以為他的team缺人,就冷冷地說“我有team啦sorry”。
然後他說:“哦,咁就好啦,just want to make sure! 咁我去上堂先啦`”
那一刻真的好感動!原來他擔心我在MBA class無人同我一group >_<
在MIT難得的溫暖!

讀多了Sloan管理學院的課,再到Parsons Lab讀主修的課真的不習慣。例如:在上課前,Sloan的professor會興致勃勃的叫一聲:“Good afternoon everyone!!“,然後整班MBA都會精神奕奕地回答 “Good afternoon!!”;在course 1的課就絕對不會發生。更嚴重的是,重上fluid mechanics這類課,很像失憶了一樣。隔了兩年,對慣了WACC,連F=ma都頓感陌生,引來以下的對話。
“學完d野呢,好似d水經過一隻鴨d毛就過左,個個成語係叫做咩?”
爹:流過鴨背?唔。。。”
答案係水過鴨背 ,以上對話內容就是一個學成語而水過鴨背的好例子了。

最後想提一提的是,今天填form在“country“一欄填上”Hong Kong”。對方問: “Are you sure Hong Kong is a country? Or is it a city?” Really? Do you really want me to explain that?

Life as an outcast

最令我得戚的對話
我:我是香港來的。
北京交換生:喔? 你也是來MIT的交換生喔?來多久?
我:不是,我*真的*是這裡的學生,讀了4年了。(like a boss~)

2nd day of class
9am出門,-5度!冷冷冷

今天終於要再上engineering的課了。
明知這些kinematic viscosity, phosphorous contamination,
bernoulli equation, thermodynamics 與我的未來是零關係,
但還是得好好給耐性去讀,人生吖~/_\

oh原來我sloan的textbook如果借舊版的話,
可以借整個學期的,四年來第二次享用圖書館服務(^.^)

hai~開學就有好多logistics issues奔波 ,煩

不打沒勝算的仗

First day of class, I only have one class today from 2:30-4:00pm. still an interesting day to write about!

My two favorite places…magical and enchanted :)
BOS & HKG

 

(1) 新房,大了差不多一倍,比香港的房間更大,
充足陽光!同一房租卻有更高享受,很多事情都要是要爭取的!

(2) 今天終於看看各科的syllabus,非常期待 Chinese Web Culture
這一課的架構有點像IB Chinese A2 一樣。
生字表有:山寨,脑残,俯卧撑,打酱油,甚至“艳照门”也有
而且上課會看電影,包括: 鏗鏘集, 超級女聲,建黨偉業,非誠勿擾

(3) 四年來,第一次使用MIT的library service!!
yes 我是從來沒有在mit的圖書館借過書的 XD
但Sloan的textbook無論係new, old, kindle, eBook version都貴到喊
所以終於!使用了圖書館的教科書2-hour loan 租借服務。
對,只可以借兩個小時。我就把握時間, 把整個semester的課後練習
都抄下來

and professor approve了我可以以pass/fail 來讀這課,實在可喜可賀
無壓力開心上課!

上課第一天就吃了popeye chicken 和 bubble tea 賀一賀佢,
在MIT裡,只有canteen的人會叫我做“家hey”,非常親切~ :)

School start!!

搬進新房間,床在窗邊
明月高高掛,很圓很圓

Registration day…busy morning already!!

  1. Changed to an L-shape room now, biggest in the dorm!
    I am the no.1 on the priority number wohoo!! (coz im oldest in the lottery..haha..not easy to rank #1 in MIT lol)
    Happy, now I will have two windows in the room , and riverside! :3
  2. Seems I am not allowed to take the Chinese class after the sudden Chin placement test…hahaha /_\
    I may take ‘Chinese Youth Web Culture’ instead..the prof got high rating 6.8/7.0
    and I have done research on Tencent before too..+ im a weibo user…should be nice?
  3. Met with Prof. Suss :D again he told me he has worked in HKUST before (he told me everytime I met him XDD)
    Now I can tell him my bf is a HKUST graduate too =P
    He said “wow you have a very respectable Fall semester…esp. half of them are grad classes!”
    haha indeed that was one of my best semesters ^^v hehe anyway
    He said he would set up a graduate reception for his advisee’s families y in his office!!
    and can take pics and stuff like that
    wowwww im so excited……..when all my families are here for my graduation!!!!
  4. FINALLY~! registration has finally turned electronic.….
    what a shame for MIT that we were still using paper and pen for reg in the past 3 years…
    good to experience it at least for one semester :)Now i have to get medicine + go to Chinatown for chicken rice to kick-start my semester =P

怪怪地

親手填上顏色的時間表..
Feeling 50/50 about the semester ahead…….
Not sure if I have the motivation to study fluid mechanics again..
a class that I dropped in sophomore year…T_T

最近特別有感,其實這個世界沒有一個完全正常的人
亦沒有一個完全正常的家庭
大家都有他們“怪怪地”的陰暗面或缺憾
而怪在那裡?time will tell ~
所以人靠包裝,相處靠包容;
在人際關係上要做到面面俱圓,
就取決於你的交際手腕/EQ的高低了