Cape Cod

went on a road trip to Cape Cod (finally)!

// MC Jin x Bow Tie ‘s song. such a big PR failure for the HKSAR chief executive office.
(1) hk ppl are full of hatred….and won’t appreciate….but the most unpopular word “hei lau” and donald tsang would only jus trigger ppl to bao cho….
(2) MC Jin is not particularly popular….ppl won’t like the government becoz ppl like MC Jin. Ppl now hate MC Jin instead…so it would be best if he could find people like Eason Chan or 群星…so ppl won’t be as pissed ?

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 ^^

benefit of the doubt

 

In 5 semesters, I have taken (jarp bud lung..) classes from:

Course 1     Civil and Environmental Engineering x n (my major)

Course 2     Mechanical Engineering

Course 3     Materials Science and Engineering x 0.1 (audited ‘modeling and simulation’)

Course 4     Architecture

Course 5     Chemistry    x 1

Course 6     Electrical Engineering and Computer Science x 2 (i’ve actually taken 2 course 6 classes!)

Course 7     Biology    x 1

Course 8     Physics    x 2

Course 9     Brain and Cognitive Sciences    (maybe i would take a psycho class at some point)

Course 10     Chemical Engineering

Course 11     Urban Studies and Planning    x 2 (my 2 UROPs are with course 11)

Course 12     Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences   x 2 (my undergrad seminar + an energy class in IAP haha)

Course 14     Economics    x 2

Course 15     Management    x n (my major)

Course 16     Aeronautics and Astronautics

Course 17     Political Science x 1 (so-called japanese politics)

Course 18     Mathematics    x 4 (!) (taken all 4  that could be waived = =)

Course 20     Biological Engineering

Course 21    Foreign Languages and Literatures    x 3 (probably more coming up)

Course 22     Nuclear Engineering

Course 24     Linguistics and Philosophy    x 1

 

  • 在讀type I error type II error 的時候,原來電視劇裡常常有說的“疑點利益歸與被告”statistically 是這個意思。
  • 其實讀marketing courses 應該挺有趣的~at the end of the day Advertising/PR/branding/reputation/credibility 才是皇道。這個marketing-driven的社會,沒有暴光率沒有知名度沒有brand value就沒有client。吸引不到人去invest去sponsor就一切等於零。但呢d野都seems幾common sense ?只要可以brainstorm同pitch到正idea的人就可以做得好好。(我好像(直頭)講緊廢話hahaa。但seriously,由sale自己,sale一個product,一個idea,一間公司,要突圍而出談何容易。代言人賺gum多錢不無道理。)
  • 有云”女子無才便是德”,但小女子乃無德亦無才。這個秋冬終於realized到我是
    • (1)無德無品
      (例如:喜歡主動幫人?有愛心?準時守信? 有耐性?有交代?誠信? 有口德,不說三道四?做事光明磊落,不得過且過?責任感?專一?有情有義氣?勤奮?不會不擇手段不功利主義?嘩 真係一樣都無。)
      (有云”朋友是一面鏡子” 。因為一樣quality都想不到。於是鼓起勇氣問了幾個可信賴的朋友。大家都巧妙曲線回答:“跟你做朋友就不是單單因為你的人格。”  “你不是壞人就好了。”   )
    • (2)無才無天分
      (例如:學業就不在話下,體育?音樂?寫作?琴棋書畫樣樣“叮”。)
    • (3)無興趣
      (unless中意有型o架仔都算係興趣)
    • (4)無樣

Wall Dream

這個學期多了在Sloan building出沒,身邊的同學都經常討論到這個話題 -investment banking or consulting? 一聽到這兩個關鍵字,大家都開始雙目發光,如數家珍般比較分析兩者的利與弊,朗朗上口地解釋著面試般的答案“我覺得ibanking比較適合我,因為我喜歡fast-paced的multitasking business environment。” 或者 “我覺得我適合consulting,因為可以expose to a broad range of industries,而且exit opportunity比較多。”  以前遇到這些對ib/consulting如此瘋狂著魔的人,會反感不安。這個世界只剩下兩個行業嗎?其他的就難道不值一提?

(i) 有見畢業生都一窩蜂投身銀行界,年初Bill Gates 在最頂尖的大學-Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, UChicago, MIT-舉行了一連五場的演講。重點是說biggest world problems need the brightest mind to solve。世界急需人才,但可惜都被投資銀行吸走了。演講完後,一位印度女生點出:”畢業後投身到科研教育的人的確越來越少,但那是因為做投行明顯financially preferable。這是事實“。那時這位世界首富也無言以對,坦言如果是自己也會選擇做投行,那唯有推動corporation-level多做一點公益。

(ii) 在日本,我在一家重工業公司的研究部工作,下班後跟同事們去喝酒。老闆邊喝著焼酎邊說道,我們做r&d 的,做manufacturing的是真的在做tangible 而且是permanent的貢獻,做銀行的只是為很少部份的extremely wealthy individuals 打工,在做intangible的cash flow cash transfer。他拍了拍桌,望著我說,你絕對是做科研的材料。那一刻,我是多麼肯定我會”棄暗投明”。

(iii) 哥哥在報紙的專欄裡寫過美國west coast跟east coast的大學分別。east coast 的同學們目標一致,無論你讀的是數學工程哲學,興趣無論是文科理科,最後end up 都緊抱著聖經:wall street journal, financial times 或者是vault guide to financial interview。沒有區分的理想,曾經令我咋舌。west coast 就比較多元化,同學會讀建築,讀歌劇演戲,讀social work,為夢想奮鬥。

不經意,在正方反方的耳濡目染下,自己卻還是倒模同化為一個典型的east coast 香港人,狠很打我幾個耳光也不為過,但是至少,我清楚看見自己的生存狀態,而且至少,我並不以我的生存狀態為榮。