Getting even busier

Now, when I think about January time, I could not say that is the busiest time in MIT. So far, when Spring semester starts, only 4 weeks in, more readings, projects and research, the very solid busy schedule, putting your brain constantly thinking, evaluate...

After Zhiyong left, I felt emotional hard to make transition, but force myself to concentrate the school, as summer will be around the corner and I will be looking forward the happy moments. The readings are great, I could not skip part of it. The amazing parts are all those readings from different classes are quite connected, so, in order to finish it, I need to increase my reading speed, decrease my sleeping hours and say 'no' to all sounds-cool outings, which turn out very hard.

Friday, my classmates won the 2nd place in Muddy redesign competition. I went to cheer them up and had a dinner with them. Ever since I came back, starting my research paper, which lead me all the way till Sunday around 7:30a.m. to take a nap before Church. well, I got 5 hours sleep on Friday night, that was about it. I even have to skip Sloan Investment Management Conference Saturday which I registered a month ago, a Schumann concert, crazy classmate pub crawl and chinese hot pot festival(the end of celebration of Chinese New Year.) You may ask if that is worth it, well, I need to prioritize and be accountable for the task I was assigned, before I could go for fun or learn other additional knowledge. As you can imagine, my Sunday afternoon was my completely wondering time, which I just need to be away from campus, sort of drifting around Boston common, totally mindless.

Friends are great, who are there for you through your happy time, also be there for you when you are in need. After a very rich conversation, I was heading back to my apt. Meanwhile, there is a Flamenco music dinner SDMer organized. Hey, I have not eaten, dinner sounds good! It was a wonderful dinner, good meal, great wine, wonderful music, singing and dancing, then went back for a good night sleep.



Girls want to be with her; Guys want to be with her; Apparently she is also MIT graduate, doing research in CS. After she overheard me mention 'Ashdown', my campus apt. housing, she surprised us telling me that she graduated from course 6 (refer to EECS, a hard core). So, she does research during the day, dance and teach Flamenco at night!