Author: impromptuz

晚安了 想感謝每一盞亮著的燈

  • Upcoming flights (subject to change)
    Dec 20: Fly to Hong Kong
    (home~family~good food~~can’t wait…)
    Jan 6: Fly to Fukuoka, Japan
    (time to realize the appreciated value in my JPY savings account + lots of authentic ラーメン in the winter + Bump of Chicken concert!!)
    Feb 2: Fly to Boston
    (for the very last time >o<)
    Jun 2: Dad mum bro fly to Boston for graduation ceremony
    (and Oasis of the Sea ..largest cruise ship on earth!)
    Mid-July: Training in New York
    . 
  • Found something I blogged back in July 2008, feel so good to be inspired by the 18 year old f10ni. haha
    “when uncertainty/ fear reigns..
    remember,
    1. Fear impedes action
    2. inaction = lack of experience
    3. lack of experience breeds ignorance
    4. ignorance guarantees fear
    i.e. a vicious cycle. “
    . 
  • Quote of the day from my PhD classmate in managerial psychology
    after our 50 MC questions final exam..
    “我已經33歲，有兩個孩子，為甚麼還要做multiple choices的考試喔！“
    .
  • 本來想同個朋友講“我走啦”，但literally講左“我要跑步啦(I gotta run)” ….orz

The Aegean Sea

我在這藍色天地下，躺在沙灘椅上，看書，回憶，喝雪碧。
海風輕拂，把書頁的角落一頁頁吹起。
我閉上眼，
與那溫柔含蓄的海浪聲為伴，
融化於
愛琴海的氣息裡。

（鏡頭一轉）

hmm..the guard just asked for my MIT ID in the study room..
Am I so hea that I look like a homeless person?@_@…………

  • team meeting
  • aptitude test
  • Final exam  1 + study
  • Grade pset
  • Enter grades + timesheet
  • Meet with minor advisor
  • Final report 1 due
  • Do data analysis for presentation
  • Rehearsal and practice for final presentation
  • Final presentation
  • final assessment due
  • aptitude test 2
  • minor advisor mtg fri 2pm
  • transportation pset due
  • Grade pset
  • Enter grades + timesheet
  • Final report 2 due
  • Final Exam 2 + study
  • Final Exam 3 + study

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Meeting Steven Chu

這兩個月見了第三位Nobel Prize Winner －美國能源部長Dr. Steven Chu。跟朋友在回宿舍路上，經過kresge，見到還有free lunchbox，就walk-in進去了。

短短一個小時內aggressively cover了clean energy sector裡面的幾十個小部分－solar energy, transportation, building efficiency, biomass harvesting,  blahblah…可能是學者出身的關係，內容都針著”Invented in America” 的研究突破。他還真的耐心地把一個又一個零零碎碎的research概要和charts推出來講兩句。(當中還用一個slide來解釋DC to AC conversion…well Dr. Chu here is not Harvard. Electromagnetism is a compulsory course in MIT!!)

Technical了一小時後，朱先生以Michael Spence最新發的paper作結。
“Invented in America” is not enough, to win the clean energy race, 要
“Made in America, Sold Worldwide”才可以說是完全勝利。

因為整個演講途中非常zzzz，沒有甚麼特別的感受。
唯獨他提到幾家中國太陽能企業的名字，甚麼wafer ASP，
都是我暑期工research過的，就勾起了我暑假的段段回憶了。（誤）

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You are all I long for, all I worship and adore.

  • 當我經過報紙檔，如果見到份本地報紙幾吸引，
    我會買一份。
    當Warren Buffett 經過報紙檔，如果見到份本地報紙幾吸引，
    他會把整間報社買下來。orz
  • Wowww we are just talking about airline revenue management in our transportation class and we are just talking about corporate senior unsecured debt and credit default risk in investment class and I just watched the movie The Aviator 2 weeks ago…(?) and here it comes American Airlines Chapter 11 bankruptcy this morning!!!!!!!~~LOVE IT !!!!!! soo jeng when a single news is so relevant to more than 1 of your classes!!!
    Lectures are extra intriguing and professors are extra cool when they can comment on these things immediately before news commentaries are out !! High jor!!
    這個故事教訓我們，不要用奶茶送藥，如果唔係會有feeling of ecstasy..no kidding.
    就連一家航空公司破產，都可以令我興奮得心跳加速睡不著（誤）。

Loans School of Management

I need to pick one more humanity class to graduate with the following criteria:
1. No morning class
2. Easy to get A
3. Interesting and useful for a lifetime
4. Don’t take Chinese 4 though its very tempting..dignity problem.
After 1 full day of contemplation ….finally came up with my final semester combination.

Modern Japan: Back in Freshman Fall, my blog said “Gonna take ‘History of Modern Japan’ in Sophomore Spring!” ..which never happened.

Spanish I :  By elimination. –>I want to take French I ..but time conflict. Don’t want to take Chinese, 浪費青春. Want to take Japanese in Harvard but they start Spring on Jan 23, too early. German is too difficult and I don’t see why I would want to learn German. At least I can roll the Spanish r..haaa.

This concludes my four-year college life sparkling with sweat and tears…T_T

~~byebye M1T!!!