契機


  • 脫離社會常軌,盡量把身體縮到最小,盡量變透明,也有很任性的一面。不過就我所知,他對工作不是不負責任的人。
  • 凌晨四点之前,青豆一个人在家里再也待不住了,便穿上凉鞋出了门。短裤和背心,就这么一身打扮,漫无目的地走在黎明的街头。走着走着,感到喉咙发干,便走进通宵营业的便利店里,买了大盒装的橘子汁,一口气当场喝光。
  • 一回過神來,才發現大學生活不經不覺只剩下三個學期。幼稚園到現在,對開學都非常期待。令人雀躍的包書膠的香味(話說回來,現在都沒有包書的習慣了,可能都變了hardcover的緣故),一本本載滿新知識的教課書,開學前,非常珍惜小心的偷偷翻看一頁一頁的標題文字,上學真好,吸收知識真好。
  • 大學的新學期意義重大。學習之餘,更是証明自己,鍛鍊意志恆心的契機。對於我來說,更是翻身的機會。回首,每一個學期都有各方面的遺憾,新學期就像新的一年,是名副其實再接再厲的蛻變時機。剩下三次。
  • 如果我毫不保留地依序我自我的意願,nothing will ever happen。我會選擇捲起來,對世事不聞不問。可能只有你才可一語中的指出我“個性是自我中心,屬於自己過得好別人無所謂的性格”,對於以上指責,我欣然不否認。
  • 在美國宿舍睡不著的話,我會合起眼,幻想自己正躺在香港家裡的雙層床的樓上,爸媽就在主人房扯鼻鼾。
  • 在浴室心緒不寧的話,我會合起眼,幻想自己正在日本横浜的宿舍浴室,正在沖一個不趕不急的澡。
  • 不再屬於任何團體了,卻不感半分可惜。到底身為核心有多充實,我不記得。但化為可有可無的附屬一員,卻獲得了無比自由。

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?

Goodbye.

Fall 2010 !!!  I love all my classes this semester :)
and will always remember the moment i spilled my whole espresso on my cheatsheet…*0*

after this semester:

  1. GPA should have gone up by 0.1 if everything goes right !!! fingers-crossed!
  2. could read IPA from dictionaries ! useful for life
  3. could work comfortably with matrices ..though i screwed up the final ._.
  4. have a basic understanding of stock, options, fixed income, risks, CAPM…
  5. could do hypothesis tests
  6. could do downward facing dog in Yoga class…
  7. FINISHED my PE requirements…very significant!

Japanese 6, Civil Evaluation, Optimization, Corporate Finance, Options ….
I love my junior year ^^

Year 3饑寒交逼的一天

  1. 昨天跟友人到chinatown吃shabushabu,飽暖思睡,才十點多,回到房間跳上床就立刻睡著了。
  2. 早上被哥哥打來的電話吵醒來,說著無聊的話題,講了一個只有我們兩兄妹才明白的gag,笑了兩分鐘。
  3. 外面charles river景色很美,藍天白雲樹枝,拍了一張照。
  4. 然後ss打過來,又是閒聊無聊的話題,不小心又講了很久,5個人的family plan內,不能久聊。
  5. 洗澡,到student center吃午飯。老闆連續三年都例牌的說“靚女,今日又食牛呀?’,‘係呀,同埋珍珠奶茶唔該”
  6. 到athena cluster print lecture notes,也是例牌地ajax, python, pulp, metis, fiber (都為printer的名稱)全部廢晒,燥底。
  7. PE堂,這一次是archery補課,所以會見到bunkie,突然湧現了很多在日本一起玩的時光。好期待星期四把所有pe課K.O.。
  8. 去上finance theory,這個學期的功課全都拜託這位非常有才華的師妹,哈哈。efficient market hypothesis說trading might be hazardous to wealth。我想對health也是吧,容不易心臓麻痺(しんぞうまひ)。
  9. 去stata center的8樓見我的ta聊final paper。我覺得我的ta很像500 days of summer 的Joseph Gordon-Levitt <3。office的白板上寫了一句“this whiteboard is useless”。
  10. 然後由5pm到1am到留在我的新蒲點,24-7 quiet study room。目的是把final paper 改好,submit,然後review一下final的東西。
  11. study room實在太正 (見圖) i)沒有人,好靜,沒有聽歌隔音的需要。 ii)乾淨,沒有餅乾碎,沒有臭味。
  12. 溫先生說他在窗外跟我揮手但我完全無視XDD I am so sorry。但因為你,我知道如何簡單地derive butterfly spread了!
  13. 越來越冷,8點多才發現原來還沒有吃晚飯,走出去饑寒交逼,地上的水都結冰了!!我一邊走,冰冷的寒風呼呼一邊迎面吹過來!!我這個時候才驚覺,一些人會冷死不是開完笑的!!我一邊走,才發現甚麼餐廳都沒有開!!可怒也 (音: call lao yeah~) 吖我快沒有力走下去啦。。
  14. 最後我跑進了kendall square的cosi,叫了一杯熱巧克力,一個我也忘了是甚麼。
  15. 這個時候,爸爸打過來趕緊報告媽媽考試拿了100分!然後我說不夠媽媽厲害,我今天派的midterm也只有97分。哈哈。我說我快冷死了,爸爸又說,為甚麼不穿freshman開學時買那套(重十磅)外套,好貴的。
  16. 吃晚飯後,包裹著暖暖的巧克力,縮起脖子,回去繼續讀書了~~~bot88

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1:28:55 AM Cheung: so fast

1:29:02 AM Cheung: is it ur junior year already

沒有大起大跌,無驚無險,year 3就這樣過了一半。
這個學期是最正常的,也是我第一次體驗到的正常學期。如果頭兩年沒有這麼多光怪琉璃,我好肯定我freshman fall,本應就像這個學期般──享受獨處的空間時間,到處旅遊探望朋友,要讀書時就乖乖在student center讀書,肚子餓時就找同聲同氣的同學們出去chinatown吃飯,或者煮一個公仔麵看著土豆。這般自給自足自娛的格調,沒有先例。

記得頭兩年情緒非常不穩定。兩年前,受不起壓力會大哭尖叫,自摑,鉛筆也弄斷過幾枝。一年前,在三星期內第六次說絕交,嚴寒下我赤著腳衝出simmons跑到killian court,坐在被雪染百的草地上不停哭不停哭。要同時兼顧著六門課,一個research,和這個突如其來的精神崩潰,受不了。

就這樣一年過去了。從日本三個月實習回來後,心態改變了不少。從法國同事學到,世上沒有甚麼是too big a deal的,想要做就做,不要讓自己後悔,不要hesitate,但也不要勉強,人生短, 理應及時行樂。Research上的achievement,自信也從新built up了。最重要的是,得到這快樂遊歷的充電,整個人也正面 brighten up了,沒有這麼tense up。

這個學期只是讀了四門課,兩門PE課,所以日子都比較輕鬆 。睡眠時間都亂了,但回想李寶椿時代都是這樣,就覺得沒有大不了。一開學就去了virginia,去了atlantic city,去了brown,去了yale兩次。短短三個月,總共都host了十多位來boston玩的朋友。會哭的時候都是看日劇的時候。會生氣都是自己懶過頭所致。

其他的,經歷了了兩次phone interviews,六次面試。那一天forum 9am-10pm marathon式的一關一關考核,好難忘。 經過這一役,就像打了強心針一樣。原來狀態好的時候,真係可以幾好。

餘下的路還有很長。但這個學期就只剩下兩個星期了。高興這個sem我終於可以開始用我自己的生存方法,我選擇的生活方式,去從新認識,應付MIT。繼續socially awkward下去。

旅の始まりを 今も 思い出せるかい
これが僕の望んだ世界だ そして今も歩き続ける
選んできた道のりの 正しさを 祈った
旅途的最初 如今 依然能回想起來嗎?
這就是我所希冀的世界,現在我依然要繼續走下去 。
我祈求我所選的路途是對的。

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告げる現在地 動き出すコンパスさぁ 行こうか。 ロストマン
用力向那一天的背影揮手道別,
開始動起來的指南針,來,我們出發吧,lost man。

踏み出す足は いつだって 始めの一歩。
踏出的每步 無論何時 都是開始的一步。