一位在校硕士生在人生的十字路口徘徊。一位刚毕业的女硕士的父亲给他在美国的大学女同学打招呼,希望她们能帮他女儿找份工作。 我无意中看到这篇短文: How to Enjoy Your Decision http://www.huanqiukexue.com/html/newkj60stl/2013/0605/23242.html 可是,选择人生的路比挑选一粒巧克力要难多 ...
在美国,不负债,不太容易。 我是一个量入而出的主妇。除了房贷,不欠别的债。可是,我的银行一直想让我多贷款。这次,我可能会有计划地“上钩”。 What a bank does is to send you (blank) checks, with teasing rates (very low rate for the first year, say). I was always careful, because I was afr ...
站着说话,不嫌腰痛 。Because I am not a professor, I cannot have any students. All I write here is my "day dream," WHAT IF I were a professor and had funding to support one Ph.D student. How should I pick this student from more than five applicants? I will take each recommendation letter ...
This may sound strange at first, but it is true. A young woman asked me to check her application package for going to a university in the US, where she will spend two years doing her research as part of her Ph.D. thesis work. I noticed the name of her host in the US being a Chinese name, and ...
It was bad enough when some researchers started to use “data” to describe “(numerical) model output” a few years ago; now some scientists are saying “(numerical) projections are becoming observations…” Thank goodness, I don’t have to listen to such abuse of English words at a conferen ...
ps. Peonies are hard to find in Hawaii, so I collected these photos from the Web, to remember my younger brothers and sisters who vanished overnight...
The internet in China is definitely in its developing stage. I have wasted so much time waiting to get one email out at a time... All these will pass in two days, not that the internet will be developed by then, but I will be out of here for a while.
or making (some) people less depressed. If you are too worried about something that you have no control over, the best thing to do is to keep yourself fully occupied. Anyone who knows me knows that I am not religious. If God could help LP, I would worship him from now on...
My brother doesn't like the food on the train. I always thought that he was being too picky. Well, I finally got fed up with the set meal on Gao Tie (because I took a day trip from Beijing to Naning and had to eat it twice in one day). It was not the price, but the taste of the food. No PIG sh ...
Gao Tie from Shanghai pulled into the railway station Beijing Nan on time at 11:30 pm. The rest is nothing by nightmare. Some neat women didn't want to use the toilet on the fancy train (because it was messy), but had to use much worse facility at the station. It was so bad that it remin ...