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another shocking policy set up by the chinese. i just read on hailey’s blog that her school is banning all students from owning computers in their dorms. i just don’t get what is the point of that. esp. for college students, how they should treat their academic studies is their own damn business. the school [...]

i was picking up an application form from a building in my university. while waiting for the lady to get me the form, i saw this basket of candies sitting in the waiting room. i was planning to take some but then i saw mixed with them were condoms. i just wasn’t sure any more. [...]

more to what i wrote previously (which i find now extremely boring), i’m searching for advice on how to write a good personal statement for my graduate school application. some tips on this page just make me laugh so hard. i can not believe that apparently people have made the mistakes before. * DO NOT [...]

there’s a lot more to say about this wacky visiting asso. professor from HongKong. he teaches my asian humanities: china class. he believes in too many superstitions (fengshui, yijing etc). for example, he puts a budda on his office window so the female ghosts won’t come and corrupt him (since he’s a scholar). he’s also [...]

can you believe this small 500 page book costs $100 – well that is the book i need to buy for my required abstract algebra course for my math major. good thing i ordered the cheapest used one from amazon. with shipping it’s $72, still cheaper than the used book price at my university book [...]

so my research project for the next semester has started early. i had a couple of options. i chose to learn c# and help building this IE addtion component like google toolbar for a specialized search engine for my professor. he warned me it’s gonna be hard. yes it will be challenging since i have [...]

WEB PROGRAMMING A ADV INFO/KNWLDG A CIV OF ASIA: CHINA A PROGRAM LANG CONCEP A- Hrs GPA 12 3.92 so i guess i got A- in that class i hate. not that i hate the material. i just hate the grading. oh whatever, it could have been worse. at least my over all GPA is [...]

delightful – i finished my last 7:30am final. i was struggling with one of the haskell problem on the exam but i think i nailed it at the end. 10 minutes before the end of the exam. the exam is two hour long. i finished everything except problem 4 by 8:30am. then i dived into [...]

school has been going great. in our perl class, we soon will be finishing the lessons on perl programming and dive into a research for the rest of the semester. i can basically do anything internet related research using perl. one of my ideas my professor liked is trying to research what kind of blog [...]

this is really pissing me off. did i ever pay attention or does it seem only starting this year UI started to charge ridiculous fees like: Computer Fee $94.00 Student Activities Fee $19.50 Student Services Fee $25.50 Student Union Fee $42.50 Building Fee $59.50 Student Health Fees $84.50 the first four are supported by this [...]