Calm down

AH~~~~~~~~~~~~
I regret not preparing TOEFL early, 5555...

It seems many Canadian Universities provide Msc programs with scholarship and no GRE requirment, but my pity oral part score cannot fulfill any!!! :sad: Now that the only I can say is TAKE IT EASY, EASY AND EASY.

p.s. I installed Ubuntu 7.10, a new version. It's much more stable than I considered. I'm trying to drop XP and move to Linux, facing the biggest problem --QQ. Tencent doesn't release any Linux version of QQ and changes the protocol frequently so as to prevent others' development on QQ client. Narrow-minded!

BT Porposal

Yesterday I checked the web of KTH and found an unhuman request of MASTER's material at a corner -- Thesis Porposal... No one knows how to write this cause there is no information about it on the web except the title! The more awful is that the program I apply is distributed systems, so I have to write a technical paper I've never known any detail! God!!! Perhaps distributed AI will be the only choice.

First En-Post

Considering my tight schedule, I've decided not to take TOEFL once more. It's really a huge project to prepare the material like personal statment, research proposal and recommendation letters. I sent my 1st version PS to Penny and she said the expression cannot be poorer than that...:( I know I know, writing and speaking, I have to keep hard working on them. It's one-way street, NO WAY to come back!

915T出分

今天912和915一起出的,29+24+18+21=92。虽然不算好,但是还是出乎意料的。

我这3年没碰英语的水平,突击一个月估计也就80......没想到总分还不错,对于没单项要求的非北美地区应该是够了。但还是要再考一次,因为UK的一些学校有BT单项要求。写作还好办,开始发愁口语了。

anyway, a little surprise :-)
Working hard, no regret!

中秋

记忆中中秋和我生日一直都相差不远,不过这次xiaoyan mm的生日正好赶上了中秋,晚上准备赴宴,hoho。

前些天忙建模比赛,熬夜2天写了20多页的人口预测模型,还是感觉有点扯,结果未知。我想下回不会参加建模比赛了,减寿。其间去了HKUST的面试,全英文但发现教授口语也不大好,问了好多复杂度的东西可我根本没专门修过算法分析......准备去查一查NPC、图灵机等的精确定义。

感觉前一阵压力很大,想想多数是自己给自己的。其实这样如何那样又如何呢?
相信未来会很好,就像北京秋天的阳光。

HKUST's interview

今天接到了HKUST的邮件,22号的interview,在清华。

那天我还在数模比赛啊......现在倾向于去香港的Mphil或者NUS的PhD/MSc,还要再和家里面商量一下,所以HKUST的PhD当是长经验吧,虽然他家的CS据说是最牛的...

选择

周六考完iBT,这次慌慌忙忙准备了1个月,兴许还要再考一次吧......

回到学校,大家纷纷忙着保研的事情,我就捉摸着申请的事情,又是一个头疼的选择。没有G,我的申请只能集中在香港、新加坡,犹豫在是读Master还是PhD。

PhD会有奖学金,但是需要在那里学5年,中途转成2年Master还有些风险(或退学或自费),5年的科研会不会把我逼疯啊?Master又分为两种,by course(MSc)的1.5年,主要是上课,没有奖学金但是比较容易申请,by research(Mphil)的2年,主要做研究,有奖学金但是比PhD还难申请,据说这两种Master在找工作上是基本没区别的。

我打算毕业后工作,不想再搞研究的,但是Master又很难有奖,真是矛盾啊。昨天看到新加坡国立一年花费<10万rmb(包括学费生活费),比香港便宜好多,这样应该工作1、2年就能挣回来了罢......但是又不想父母破费......

迷茫ing~