Summer Sessions

Time flies by, it's already time for summer classes starting at May 31st, today. I went to my only class Fundamental of Circuits I this afternoon, had 3 hours of lecture there; it is awfully long hours for three times a week from next week on. Yep, we left early as a special "gift" from the Prof. who wanted his students to get used to the class, and like to be in his class as recorded by himself. Anyway, this class can be quite fast-paced and challenging, we will be compressing a 3 or 4-month classes into a little over 40 days in summer, so I have to be both physically and mentally prepared, otherwise I will fail myself which is something that sucks. Okay, having said that I need to study new materials in EE book now, and I sincerely wish you all a great summer either in summer sessions or in vacations.

Why not have more dollar pizza stores around?

Today, I was at work then around 2:30 in the afternoon headed downstairs with Suzhen to a newly "discovered" decent dollar pizza shop in the nearby block. It was my second visit there in continuation of yesterday's, well yeah I love their pizzas! They're so damn good at a price of 99 cents, would you resist a good slice? The slice, unlike the usual fatty ones sold elsewhere in the city; it was thin with light cheese on top of crispy crust. Delicious stuff don't mind me to mention it one more time.
By "fortune", I saw the cook in the open-kitchen-he looked Chinese-like, my colleague suggested he might be the owner. Whatever he was, I want to thank him for running a shop like that. Don't laugh at me. Food business at universities is one of the most profitable industries, they are ripping us off like a wild bull off control; while students are panicking over the highly-over-priced lunches averaging at $6 or 7 or more, business owners are laughing like devil behind the stage, squeezing out every little penny out of our pockets. Recently, I ran to Columbia University for an errand; I found the food there were cheaper than at my school. The result was - I was shocked.
In downtown Metro Tech area, business firms are all over the place. The white-collared ones may or may not mind the prices, this is probably one of the motives and semi-reasonable excuses for businesses to raise the sky-rocking prices.
Now, look at the dollar pizza shop. Owners of such kind are not benefiting much from its prices but indeed they attract more traffic than anywhere else, I mean people are cheap (in front of good food) in certain circumstances even if they were making a lot of money everyday. We should enforce the idea of dollar pizza shop and make food resources more acceptable to students, and to public. People are of course too greedy to stop making money from day to day, I understand it is not their fault because someday we might as well join them. Anyways, the sense of feeling deprived at school made me write this whole thing. But do keep this in your mind.

Tips to Survive at College

No matter which college you will be attending, let it be CUNY, SUNY, or Private schools. Be prepare to do the followings if you want to survive... and do well:
1. Studying (alone first);
2. Make friends (realize studying alone isn't efficient enough);
3. Use tutoring services (you already paid for this in your bill, so why not use it?);
4. Eat healthy, sleep well (no sleeping in class though...);
5. Exercise regularly (don't overstress yourself please, college can be fun of coz with good grades...);
6. Prepare for tests that count for 20%, 25% or even more of your final grade (not in high school now);
7. Learn to like your courses though some might be extremly boring;
8. Talk to Professors, it is neccessary to maintain good networks with them (extra credit possible);
9. Change course immediately if the Professor sucks(i.e. bad English accent, etc);
10. With good grades in certain classes will make your feel more confident & like a genius! So collect all A's.

C++ Course Tutorng Available for LESP Grad attending Poly

To those LESP Grads this term who are attending Poly at the Fall 2007,

I've decided to sign up for a C++, CS1114 tutor position at either TRIO or HEOP program, to those of who will be taking this course, feel free to contact me if needed. I will be more than glad to assist students with neccessary information to pass this course. CS major and CompE/EE major will take this course during their first term at Poly.


P.S. Rumor at Poly spreads out that CS courses are GPA killers, I strongly encourage students to ask questions and use all available resources at Poly. Best regards.

Spring 2007 Semester Summation

2nd semester in Spring 2007 is a month shorter than Fall 06, I really wasted most of time fooling around in contrast to utilizing time for studying. This loafy daily routine got me not very ideal grades on couple of mid-term exams already, what do I do now? Blame not what I did, but make it up so I won't regret any further. Afterall, I am still the guy who is looking to collect all kinds of A's out there, don't mistake me as a greedy person. But if it wasn't for the sake of worring my GPA, I wouldn't be aware of my situation now.

Invincible

Let the crowd laught at you,

Let the darkness surround your internal lonliness,
Let the heat and cold attack your weak heart,
Let every moment of your life be your wicked enemy.
Be who you are and face every enemy in your life,
Feel what your feel, say what you like to say,
Dare to speak up,
And only afraid not to admit fear,
Show the world of your strength,
Tame every challenge got in your way,
Make the star of the sky shine upon YOU.

Face of People

Different people come to your life. Some come for a reason, some come for a season, some come for a lifetime friendship. They are not judege by your eyes, but rather than with your heart. See carefully for yourself, decide who are your true friends, appreciate them before you regret after they are gone. Life rolls on forever on this endless circle of road.

Courtesy of Quoteland.com

Life is our teacher. Life communicates with us all the time and it is a lessonto see how life continuously have led me to the people I need to met, to thesituations I need to experience, and to the places I need to be. There has neverbeen any real reason to worry since all small individual rivers are already ontheir way to the ocean, to the Whole. It is not about swimming, it is aboutrelaxing and to float with the river in a basic trust that life already leadstowards the sea of consciousness, towards the Whole.�

- Swami Dhyan Giten

Guidelines for General Scholarship Essays

Okay, it is time for you to apply for college, but don't really have a clue about scholarships? What do they really want in your essay? This guideline will sure serve you the purpose of revealing the myth of scholarship. (if I am entrusted by you guys)^^

General scholarship essays want:
1. Little bit about your background, usually include a little bit information of financial disadvantage occurance in you, if you were rich you wouldn't apply, right? Don't overdo in this section as it may appears irritating to scholarship committees.

2. (Most important part)What inspired you? Who inspired you the most? What kind of characteristic does that particular person have that fascinated you? Why were your inspired by that person?
Remember, this part of your essay you MUST state the motivation behind your hardwork (I assume you all do have such motivation), examples are your parents, friends and etc. Or better to say solve a society issue. The purpose in here is not to force you to talk about a special person, but you need to be able to communicate with committees about your inspiration to achieve.
Q: What if I really want to earn a better life for my family and nothing else to say? Is there any way that I can focus on both self-interest and public interest, and not to be looked as self-fish?
A: Smart question, the answer is yes. Recommendation is to merely state self-interest say you want to earn a better life, then tend to focus more for the society say you see the same problem apply to the society and you want to help out. The reason why this balance is important is because in reality, those committes want to see you as a social hero not as a self-fish.

3. Now, if your essay was able to seize committees' eyes to keep on reading; that is your Part 2 above was well described and caught their eyes on your paper. You now need to tell something about your college goal, what will you do in college that will eventually lead you to make a contribution to the society?

4. At the end, there are millions of students apply for a popular scholarship. How will you be able to stand out from the rest? Trick here is not to boast around, but confidently tell committees that you believe you will succeed with the help of scholarship to overcome financial problem!

P.S.--I hope this guideline helps you guys to apply for scholarship and hopefully every one of you will win some decent scholarships, and don't forget to save me some money if you do! For I not post any charge on you! ^^ j/k This guideline applys to I would say 40% - 50% of scholarships around except for those technical ones that require you to do research and stuff like that really hard to win. This is also the guideline I followed before.