6/16/2007
Spend more time in the study-hall
It's been a long time since my last time to be in the classroom studying after class, study in the dorm never get too much efficiency. most of the time, we just sit in front of the computer, doing nothing but browsing boring bbs, blog, news, and posting vacuity or watching movies telling the same story like heroism or freak in the space. So, I decide to spent some time in the classroom from now on, maybe just half an hour, but there make more difference than stay in the dorm a whole day dealing with that F**** ** computer.
6/15/2007
NOT IN THE MOOD
Next Wednesday's exam of Simulation is only four days away now, but I am still not able to concentrate on reviewing…..Called dad and mom tonight, it's really nice to hear their voices, they were very happy receiving my call, now they live in the mountain alone, and they play cards during the night, wish they happy and healthy.
6/14/2007
Shooter
Watched a movie tonight, a scout was killed when executing military task because the headquarter abandoned them. The survival, which is the main role of the film, resigned from the army and lived alone in the forest with a dog. One day, a FBI officer invited him to evaluate a potential assassination may occur to the president of United Sates, he found the only possible position where the assassin may hide. But that sniper didn't realize that the whole thing was set up by the senator's crew who did many illegal things for wealth; he was set up to be the assassin and nearly killed by FBI. After his escape from the tracing of FBI, he did a series of impossible thing to revenge, and all the bad guys were eventually terminated.
Violence seems to be the eternal part of films, film with violence scene make people exited, thus the film company could raise more money, and also more crime in the real world.
Violence seems to be the eternal part of films, film with violence scene make people exited, thus the film company could raise more money, and also more crime in the real world.
6/13/2007
My Lucky Day
When we were going to Valeo APO, someone said that another five or six students in our school went to Valeo APO for the same interview as we did today, and they were told to wait for the offer after introducing themselves to the French interviewers. Today we did exactly the same thing in the first half hour, and then, DiDier, who may be the big boss, came in and terminated the self-introduction session, and asked us to tell our weak points starting from the other end of the table. That means I lost a chance to show myself, so I had to answer questions asked by those Frenchmen as many as possible to show myself. After talking about why Valeo and some other basic questions of a regular interview, four were asked to leave, Song Pang and I stayed for further confirm by a Chinese director, he asked us some questions in Chinese and then we left. Didier said we'll know the results in two days; hope they could keep their words.
I don't remember the name of that three French very clearly, Didier, Michel, Michelle. And two Chinese, Leo Wu, Wang Li. Unfortunately I forget the most important name, the director who may be my supervisor.
I don't remember the name of that three French very clearly, Didier, Michel, Michelle. And two Chinese, Leo Wu, Wang Li. Unfortunately I forget the most important name, the director who may be my supervisor.
6/12/2007
Haircut
Tomorrow will be the group interview at Valeo APO, get no preparation at all, anyway, I'll just do what I should do, be myself, that's enough. Went to haircut after dinner, for under too much pressure or else reason like low quality sleep, I'm losing my hair…
There's a funny thing this afternoon, when my roommate Qiang sent an email to a friend who has just taken the college entrance exam, I persuaded him to write in English to avoid coding error, the content of the email was simple: he found some social higher education colleges may suit his friend, and some recommendatory majors available. When typing that email, we had to use a Chinese English dictionary to translate the Chinese sentences word by word, it was really clumsy and joking, seems we both have such a long way to walk when improving English. Maybe some people will say English is not necessary for everyone, indeed, not everybody will use it after graduation, but the amazing information world on the internet will mean nothing to us if language is an obstacle.
There's a funny thing this afternoon, when my roommate Qiang sent an email to a friend who has just taken the college entrance exam, I persuaded him to write in English to avoid coding error, the content of the email was simple: he found some social higher education colleges may suit his friend, and some recommendatory majors available. When typing that email, we had to use a Chinese English dictionary to translate the Chinese sentences word by word, it was really clumsy and joking, seems we both have such a long way to walk when improving English. Maybe some people will say English is not necessary for everyone, indeed, not everybody will use it after graduation, but the amazing information world on the internet will mean nothing to us if language is an obstacle.
6/11/2007
Say Goodbye to Schneider-Electric
At about two o'clock this afternoon, right after the starting ring of class, I received a message from Chen Cong that he is accepted by Schneider just a minute before, I suddenly became very nervous, expecting my phone to vibrate, ten minutes passed, the phone showed no reaction at all, then I came to know that I was eliminated from the list. How frustrated and depressed….
My mind went back to that day in that room, we applicants seated around the table, discussing which should be put on the top of the surviving list and which in the bottom. My reaction was horrible enough to scare everyone in that room, but I didn't realize that until back in Shanghai. I stick to my point all the time with a very very loud voice like arguing with enemy in the street, I was fulfilled with concepts like basing on the truth and logical thinking, which I had learned in BBY before that discussion. As everyone could imagine, I showed a personality without cooperation sense and an impression of hard to work with. But after performing so badly, I still thought they may provide me an offer, what an irrational idiot…
The professor taught us human resources once told us that 90% of people tend to be over confident, now I think he is right. When I was still in primary school, I used to have exactly the same feeling as I do now. There were about 50 students in my class, and I felt I could rank top 10 after the final exams, because I was NO.7 in the former semester. I will never forget the day when we went back to school for the results. My home was about 10 miles away from the school, and there were no bus between them, I got up very early in the morning to walk to school. Usually it was a long way which I hated so much that I always hoped there would be a bus soon, but on that day, 10 miles seemed like just a hundred meters. I could even felt the smell of the flowers on the sides of the road which I never noticed before. All these differences were just because I took for granted that I would get awards from the principal after I arrived in school.
I was a little late when I arrived there, all the students had already seated in a square, and the principal was speaking with a microphone. I found my position, waiting quietly for my prize, then that's how it happened. When I was waiting there with a big smile in my heart, a classmate turned back and said some words with a low voice shocked me like heavy thunder in a sunny day. "You're the last third." These words almost broke my heart like four bullets right at the target. I felt a blank brain and even unable to stand stable, all surroundings started getting away from me and even myself stopped existing in the world at the moment….
It took me a summer to recover from the depression and I learned my first life lesson: the more we expect, the greater we may get hurt, so never take things from granted without considering relative facts like how much we have contributed.
My mind went back to that day in that room, we applicants seated around the table, discussing which should be put on the top of the surviving list and which in the bottom. My reaction was horrible enough to scare everyone in that room, but I didn't realize that until back in Shanghai. I stick to my point all the time with a very very loud voice like arguing with enemy in the street, I was fulfilled with concepts like basing on the truth and logical thinking, which I had learned in BBY before that discussion. As everyone could imagine, I showed a personality without cooperation sense and an impression of hard to work with. But after performing so badly, I still thought they may provide me an offer, what an irrational idiot…
The professor taught us human resources once told us that 90% of people tend to be over confident, now I think he is right. When I was still in primary school, I used to have exactly the same feeling as I do now. There were about 50 students in my class, and I felt I could rank top 10 after the final exams, because I was NO.7 in the former semester. I will never forget the day when we went back to school for the results. My home was about 10 miles away from the school, and there were no bus between them, I got up very early in the morning to walk to school. Usually it was a long way which I hated so much that I always hoped there would be a bus soon, but on that day, 10 miles seemed like just a hundred meters. I could even felt the smell of the flowers on the sides of the road which I never noticed before. All these differences were just because I took for granted that I would get awards from the principal after I arrived in school.
I was a little late when I arrived there, all the students had already seated in a square, and the principal was speaking with a microphone. I found my position, waiting quietly for my prize, then that's how it happened. When I was waiting there with a big smile in my heart, a classmate turned back and said some words with a low voice shocked me like heavy thunder in a sunny day. "You're the last third." These words almost broke my heart like four bullets right at the target. I felt a blank brain and even unable to stand stable, all surroundings started getting away from me and even myself stopped existing in the world at the moment….
It took me a summer to recover from the depression and I learned my first life lesson: the more we expect, the greater we may get hurt, so never take things from granted without considering relative facts like how much we have contributed.
Say Goodbye to Schneider-Electric
At about two o'clock this afternoon, right after the starting ring of class, I received a message from Chen Cong that he is accepted by Schneider just a minute before, I suddenly became very nervous, expecting my phone to vibrate, ten minutes passed, the phone showed no reaction at all, then I came to know that I was eliminated from the list. How frustrated and depressed….
My mind went back to that day in that room, we applicants seated around the table, discussing which should be put on the top of the surviving list and which in the bottom. My reaction was horrible enough to scare everyone in that room, but I didn't realize that until back in Shanghai. I stick to my point all the time with a very very loud voice like arguing with enemy in the street, I was fulfilled with concepts like basing on the truth and logical thinking, which I had learned in BBY before that discussion. As everyone could imagine, I showed a personality without cooperation sense and an impression of hard to work with. But after performing so badly, I still thought they may provide me an offer, what an irrational idiot…
The professor taught us human resources once told us that 90% of people tend to be over confident, now I think he is right. When I was still in primary school, I used to have exactly the same feeling as I do now. There were about 50 students in my class, and I felt I could rank top 10 after the final exams, because I was NO.7 in the former semester. I will never forget the day when we went back to school for the results. My home was about 10 miles away from the school, and there were no bus between them, I got up very early in the morning to walk to school. Usually it was a long way which I hated so much that I always hoped there would be a bus soon, but on that day, 10 miles seemed like just a hundred meters. I could even felt the smell of the flowers on the sides of the road which I never noticed before. All these differences were just because I took for granted that I would get awards from the principal after I arrived in school.
I was a little late when I arrived there, all the students had already seated in a square, and the principal was speaking with a microphone. I found my position, waiting quietly for my prize, then that's how it happened. When I was waiting there with a big smile in my heart, a classmate turned back and said some words with a low voice shocked me like heavy thunder in a sunny day. "You're the last third." These words almost broke my heart like four bullets right at the target. I felt a blank brain and even unable to stand stable, all surroundings started getting away from me and even myself stopped existing in the world at the moment….
It took me a summer to recover from the depression and I learned my first life lesson: the more we expect, the greater we may get hurt, so never take things from granted without considering relative facts like how much we have contributed.
My mind went back to that day in that room, we applicants seated around the table, discussing which should be put on the top of the surviving list and which in the bottom. My reaction was horrible enough to scare everyone in that room, but I didn't realize that until back in Shanghai. I stick to my point all the time with a very very loud voice like arguing with enemy in the street, I was fulfilled with concepts like basing on the truth and logical thinking, which I had learned in BBY before that discussion. As everyone could imagine, I showed a personality without cooperation sense and an impression of hard to work with. But after performing so badly, I still thought they may provide me an offer, what an irrational idiot…
The professor taught us human resources once told us that 90% of people tend to be over confident, now I think he is right. When I was still in primary school, I used to have exactly the same feeling as I do now. There were about 50 students in my class, and I felt I could rank top 10 after the final exams, because I was NO.7 in the former semester. I will never forget the day when we went back to school for the results. My home was about 10 miles away from the school, and there were no bus between them, I got up very early in the morning to walk to school. Usually it was a long way which I hated so much that I always hoped there would be a bus soon, but on that day, 10 miles seemed like just a hundred meters. I could even felt the smell of the flowers on the sides of the road which I never noticed before. All these differences were just because I took for granted that I would get awards from the principal after I arrived in school.
I was a little late when I arrived there, all the students had already seated in a square, and the principal was speaking with a microphone. I found my position, waiting quietly for my prize, then that's how it happened. When I was waiting there with a big smile in my heart, a classmate turned back and said some words with a low voice shocked me like heavy thunder in a sunny day. "You're the last third." These words almost broke my heart like four bullets right at the target. I felt a blank brain and even unable to stand stable, all surroundings started getting away from me and even myself stopped existing in the world at the moment….
It took me a summer to recover from the depression and I learned my first life lesson: the more we expect, the greater we may get hurt, so never take things from granted without considering relative facts like how much we have contributed.
6/10/2007
What Should We Do in College 2
Next Wednesday we'll have the final exam of Discreet Simulation. Mr. Yang is going to Melbourne, Australia for further education or else, so the exam will be taken two weeks earlier than scheduled. I hardly turned in any homework by now because of my internship, so I have to start from the very beginning, it's really tough…Arena is a common program in simulation area., I wonder if I will ever use it again after the exam, actually there are many courses we may never use or even remember after our graduation. But we have to learn it well, which sounds like boring, and it truly is. What we should learn in college? It's an old topic, but worth every college student to think seriously about it.
We always do things for no particular reason; we just do it because there are many other people doing it. We never stop to have a little thinking of what we should do and how to do it. We learn by reciting instead of doing. There's a joke said that a Chinese student answers regular interview questions like "why do you want to join us" quite fluently in English, but when the interview asks "what did you do this morning?" he becomes speechless, because he recited the "standard" answers to the all possible regular questions that could be asked but unable to speak daily English. I think before we start discussing what should be learned in college, we have to distinguish knowledge from ability. I heard a lot about the difference between Chinese class and American. In China, students just sit down there listen whatever the teacher is saying, even when they have questions, they barely say it out, most of them will keep their questions in their mouth until the class is over. There is almost no communication or interaction between the teacher and students. Students who pop up a question without raising his hand first will be considered impolite, even rude. The situation in America is right the opposite, the class is more active and open. They don't have to recite so much, but they think and act much more than Chinese students. It's widely accepted that Chinese student are much better at taking exams than solving practical problems. I think the main reason is that we gain too much knowledge, but few ability and skills in class. If we want to learn more soft skills, we have to take part in extra-curriculum activities, because we know there is little possibility we get it in class. That's the reason why students more active with social activities generally perform better in society than introversive study-only students. I think we should put more attention on developing our social skills before we jump out of the tower of ivory into the real society.
As extend of my last blog: learning extensively may provide us with more knowledge while learning intensively could make us expert in a particular industry. It's been a wide spread controversy over China for a long time. Some people say that China are having too many undergraduates who can do nothing but talking about theories when they graduated, China needs more professional students graduated from technical schools. The others claim that Chinese undergraduates should learn even more widely than they do now, because the world is getting smaller and smaller with globalization, we need people with more comprehensive skills and knowledge backgrounds. Well, from my perspective, we should not confine ourselves too much in a particular area when we are still in college, because we may still be unaware of our real interested industry, we should not get ourselves into an unknown industry just because we major in a relative topic. We have to figure out what is our real interest before we make the second biggest decision in our life after the college entrance exam. So, my opinion is, we should try our best to know more about our interested industries if working is the first option after graduation, auto, finance, capital, operation, logistics, etc. We can make the right decision when seeking for a life long career beginning job only when we have a right insight vision of the industry and where our interest and passion lay.
We always do things for no particular reason; we just do it because there are many other people doing it. We never stop to have a little thinking of what we should do and how to do it. We learn by reciting instead of doing. There's a joke said that a Chinese student answers regular interview questions like "why do you want to join us" quite fluently in English, but when the interview asks "what did you do this morning?" he becomes speechless, because he recited the "standard" answers to the all possible regular questions that could be asked but unable to speak daily English. I think before we start discussing what should be learned in college, we have to distinguish knowledge from ability. I heard a lot about the difference between Chinese class and American. In China, students just sit down there listen whatever the teacher is saying, even when they have questions, they barely say it out, most of them will keep their questions in their mouth until the class is over. There is almost no communication or interaction between the teacher and students. Students who pop up a question without raising his hand first will be considered impolite, even rude. The situation in America is right the opposite, the class is more active and open. They don't have to recite so much, but they think and act much more than Chinese students. It's widely accepted that Chinese student are much better at taking exams than solving practical problems. I think the main reason is that we gain too much knowledge, but few ability and skills in class. If we want to learn more soft skills, we have to take part in extra-curriculum activities, because we know there is little possibility we get it in class. That's the reason why students more active with social activities generally perform better in society than introversive study-only students. I think we should put more attention on developing our social skills before we jump out of the tower of ivory into the real society.
As extend of my last blog: learning extensively may provide us with more knowledge while learning intensively could make us expert in a particular industry. It's been a wide spread controversy over China for a long time. Some people say that China are having too many undergraduates who can do nothing but talking about theories when they graduated, China needs more professional students graduated from technical schools. The others claim that Chinese undergraduates should learn even more widely than they do now, because the world is getting smaller and smaller with globalization, we need people with more comprehensive skills and knowledge backgrounds. Well, from my perspective, we should not confine ourselves too much in a particular area when we are still in college, because we may still be unaware of our real interested industry, we should not get ourselves into an unknown industry just because we major in a relative topic. We have to figure out what is our real interest before we make the second biggest decision in our life after the college entrance exam. So, my opinion is, we should try our best to know more about our interested industries if working is the first option after graduation, auto, finance, capital, operation, logistics, etc. We can make the right decision when seeking for a life long career beginning job only when we have a right insight vision of the industry and where our interest and passion lay.
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