你是千堆雪我是長街

So when I am tidying up my room today..i found this “101 Things to do before you graduate”

I’ve done exactly 40 out or 101 of them ~ 40% …

which is pretty accurate for I’ve completed 3 out of 8 semester ~ 37.5 % ….

hmm interesting !!

but some I couldnt or wouldn’t do probably , like

  • play DDR in the game room–> no more game room
  • See the fireworks on the 4th of July —> don’t think I will stay here for any summer
  • Get your name in the Tech —> well unless…choi choi choi
  • Spend a summer in Boston
  • Donate blood –
  • Get a discount on Bose products –> i won’t really buy bose products..
  • Introduce yourself to your orientation coordinators–> what kind of requirement is that?!

Spiral into Spring

Classes in Spring, in the order of difficulty...let’s see if I’ll still think in the same way in April :S :

6.041: Probabilistic System Analysis
My second Course 6 (i.e. EECS) class. Notoriously difficult psets, and even more difficult exams. There are lectures, recitations and tutorials. I have no idea how challenging it will go, for the time being I will just try to catch up…: S

1.060: Engineering Mechanics II (Fluid Mechanics)
After leaving MCS, I once swore that I will never ever touch Mechanics again. Surprise, surprise, here comes the 3rd round of Mechanics class in MIT. In Structural Mechanics class its all static..now things will flow omg. The professor is very humorous I like him. and its entirely chalk-and-board teaching, which is great.

1.020: Lab II
I never thought I have to worry too much about lab class. Well, not that it is difficult to ace, but it is time consuming in preparing the pre-labs, weekly lab quizzes, team meetings, plans etc. The class is on electronic signal conditioning/sensor and energy harvesting. First lab today, seems fun, have to keep my lab book clean and neat!

14.01: Principles of Microeconomics

People always said this is a very easy class. Really?? Becoz I dont think 14.02 is easy at all ..the exams and psets are so mathematical, the average is low.  I could have waive this class if I did well in IB though..haha but I didn’t.

15.501: Corporate Financial Accounting
Another class without powerpoint –they use those transparent plastic sheet and project xxx…what is that projector thing called?! There are fill-in-the-blanks in the lecture note..so jin….anyway….accounting is sth I truly want to learn too. coz I never quite understand those Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 reports. Hope it is as straightforward as I expect la.

Arbitrary Realm of Knowledge

3 points:

  1. 估下撞到邊個? 每逢禮拜三路線! 就三秒鐘,就是我三天的快樂糧食。沒有舉頭,慢一秒,就發現不到。

  1. Sense of alienation is killing. Too skeptical. Self-esteem is zero. Mental self-defense is infinite. Allergic to all the ‘others’ outside my intimate Circle of Trust. Data overflow in my mind. People, stop looking at me like that. Stop talking to me like that. Stop treating me like that. I would rather you leave me alone. No, I don’t want to tell you. No, I don’t want to know. Taking everything too seriously. But at least I feel closer to reality. At least it means that my friends and family have been too kind to me all along. This dark internalized fear of dealing with interpersonal activities is consolidating.
  2. 上五樓的快活很耐聽,《心的距離》讓我連想到陳奕迅另一首unplugged國語歌《狂人日記》。《狂人日記》比較收斂冷靜,然後慢慢升溫,層層遞進,有點長嘯問蒼天的激動。個人最喜歡陳演繹這句歌詞-很不羈 “我没有想过改变荒芜了的沙漠  我最疯狂的错 只是幻想童话的王国” 。《心的距離》一開始徘徊於灰淡的憂鬱情感,副歌開始越來越緊湊,然後突然震撼地爆發,特別是eason超具爆炸性的‘連環嘶吼’,歇斯底里地點出整首歌再深一層的情緒,推向高潮。而最愛的歌詞是“衡量你的心直線到我之間  沒有跨越的機會 ”,副畫面感,充分感受到這句詞所藴含的“乏力” 和 “不甘”,感染力十足。 (天音:so IB !!)

與查理斯河進餐

我後悔   在雪地上留下紛雜凌亂的足印
迴彎  轉角  回頭  打旋
我猶疑   踩出了條條沒終點的分枝小徑
冰點  凝結  體溫  融化
我惋惜   手心握不住那稍蹤即逝的邂逅

R.I.P. JD Salinger.
How he managed to exclude himself as an outsider for half-a-century after his peak of success.
How the killer of John Lennon grasped this book in his hand.
Long Live Holden Caulfield. You are immortal.