明天还会起风

北京的冬天来得太快，一场雪把还没来得及凋谢的菊花绿叶都覆上了白。这是我在北京一年多来的头场雪。

在我逐渐公式化的思维当中，最温情的那部分始终保留着，但却越来越沉默了。

其实自从我高中之后，它们就慢慢地不再说话了。

昨天在校内上看到了曾老师去世的消息。虽然是意料之事，但仍然忍不住哭了起来。高中三年的所有的痛苦的、美好的、平淡的回忆，随着最温情的思维的复苏，也都不听话的一个接一个的蹦了出来。

Prof。Kaufer说，学新东西终究是一个痛苦的过程。

不管如何痛苦，也不管结果如何，我虔诚地相信，属于我的未来很大，属于我的世界很大，属于我的天空也很大，总有一天……

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/professors-guide/2009/10/21/10-steps-for-thinking-about-graduate-school.html

I think I need to be more excellent than before, be more mature than before.

Although the scholarship result is not satifying, I have to set off again! To the even more brilliant future!

Never, ever quit

这个学期是对我的舒适圈的继续扩大。

Biochemistry 和Biomechanics 还有 Human Anatomy and Physiology这三门课用了全英教材。还有比较不好对付的物理实验。当然了，还有德语二外，10G，准备参加宋老师课题组的组会，继续看Science和Nature。

这几天晚上大概2个小时能看20页左右的课本，生化的单词基本上不成问题，但解剖学的还是挺吃力……什么上皮组织，真皮组织，软骨，等等的。

一周下来挺累，包括GRE的单词仍然背得比较慢这件事。

不过我很开心，当然拉，我要继续向小树学习。随着我在学术上的道路越走越远，我其他方面不能因此成为了短板呀。

在三亚的某间可以看得见海的房间的一角，写东西。

GRE的作文已经让我恶心的不行了。ARGU的逻辑错误正在merged with my own illogical logic, but I have no problem in thinking in English now, instead of coming up with Chinese and then translate them into incoherent English. A good improvment( btw, Ms Garfield has already praised my English expression but now it is nothing to be proud of---because English remains the easiest language ever prevail in history and I decide to try my hand on German0--Deutsch.)

可能没有别的机会再这样自由的写这段实习经历了，毕竟正在赶工的Internship Report并不是什么可以自由书写的平台。

在IBM的这一个月里，我分别待了两个项目组，一个是建行的，另一个是中石油的。活不多。每天有空的时候还能泡在网上。但是这两个项目究其本质都是非常复杂的，涉及到大范围的信息化网络化的问题。比如说中石油的加油站管理系统的项目，就涉及到了全国17000个加油站的信息化（就是包括液位仪、收银系统、加油系统、POS机系统，从每一个站到总部之间的一切的信息化。有很多公司参与，包括HP，IBM，中石油规划院，Retalix（一个以色列的公司），捷德等……有一堆系统，卡系统、OPT系统、ERP系统、HOS系统……）

几个派给我的任务都是用Office的软件处理的，第一个是Excel，另一个是Word。

前天去了中国石油的总部大楼开会，被震撼到了……

还有就是每天得穿正装，要化装（至少是粉底），比较累。习惯了穿裙子啦：）

建行的项目是在盈科大厦（IBM中国总部）做的，中石油的项目是在石油规划院的农大金码大厦里做的。

本来以为不带薪，结果发现不仅能有薪水，而且所有的打车费用都可以凭小票报销，呃………………我挺开心的。

好拉好拉，我要赶紧去写报告了。

我想要一台新的笔记本；

寒假想去日本和澳洲；

新学期要把GRE狠狠攻下，十一打算闭观修炼这个——我的目标是：750+800+5；

决定修读数学二学位；

寒假还要把托福搞定；

大二要进实验室揽活干；

大二暑假想去Summer School。

哎，踏踏实实从现在做起吧

I need to deposit my funding (from my Daddy) 1000 per time.

I will work harder in the new semester.

Issue 6  “The most effective way to understand contemporary culture is to analyze the trends of its youth.”

Outline:

+ Youths are passionate and are weary of the past which is out of their dominance

+Youths are sensitive and futuristic

-          There are other ways to understand contemporary culture

If there is a best way to understand contemporary culture, then what is it? One perspective is analysis of the trends of contemporary youths. I concede that there are thousands ways to study current society and some of them may be as effective as the way mentioned above, but by examining those ways and comparing the conclusion proposed by speaker, the latter may have several advantageous.

In most societies, people in their twenties seems having unlimited passions and innovation. If culture has life, it will need energy to survive, to evolve, and to flourish. Teenagers’ passion and intuition are the fuels of the surviving, evolving, and flourish culture. We need look no further than social networking websites to find an example. The idea of Facebook is generated by a group of Harvard University students. They shared their daily events, sorrows, and happiness through it, organized their activities through it, and linked the world through it. At first, membership was limited to Harvard students, and it opens to almost every country in the world gradually Although Facebook users are relatively young, it has become the symbol of our time. Many companies start to make advertisements on it, and news stations begin broadcast their news through it, and even Michael Jackson’s funeral is accessible to all Facebook users. Decades before, no one can say that the world will become a small village resulting from a website, but it is now. Without these Harvard University students’ and other youths’ imaginations and passion, a culture featured by Facebook and the like may have yet to form now.

Apart from innovations and passions, young people, seeking out for their identities, are usually unsatisfied with complying with old values and seniors. These new adults enjoy living in a world created and dominated by themselves, not their parents. That’s why teachers can never stop his/her students wearing eccentric clothes, listening to bizarre music, holding unorthodoxy beliefs. Conflicts generations are common and winner is often the young, because they are more energetic, adamant and narrow-minded than experienced seniors who understand it is time for elder people to resign from the game. Out of such compromise, youths have the stage ready to generate their culture, the contemporary culture.

While it is true that studying the trends of youths is the most effective way to understand current society, some other ways should not be neglected. In academia, many disciplines deal with how to understand a society as a whole and these theories prove to be effective as well. Quantified materials gained by survey, interviews with people from different backgrounds, and observations done in a field trips are examples of different approaches toward culture understanding. In terms of effectiveness, I hardly see any disadvantages of these ways compared with the one mentioned in the topic.

Therefore, in the final analysis, youth, with passion, innovations, and disobedience of past generations, can be viewed as a highly effective way to study temporary culture. This approach is not the perfect one which is nonexistent, so several other methods and perspectives should be incorporated.

Human society, according to some, is propelled by and only propelled by mistakes. While I consider this statement reveals an unspoken law of human society, the proposal unfairly limits the driving force of human society, and everything else, to mistakes. In various perspectives of human society, mistake, among other factors, plays an important role in human progress and discovery.

It is true that mistakes can lay the foundation for future developments, especially when it comes to science. Mistakes help scientists to cross out unfeasible ways and illuminate them to explore new approaches or phenomenon. For instance, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming “introduced” penicillin to the world due to the mistake that he left a germ culture plate open one night. The blue-green mould grew in the plate, discovered by Fleming the next day, was the first penicillin. According to laboratory regulations, Fleming’s mistake was possible to ruin the entire experiment (indeed the original experiment was suspended after the discovery), and yet, the wrongdoing brought fortune to the world in aiding those suffered from bacteria infection and advanced pathology studies. There are many other scientists who contribute to academia as well as general public by making mistakes, and it is hard to imaging research achievements with no mistakes “supporting” from behind.

Whereas mistakes can result in discoveries and progress in science academia, they sometimes do more harms than good. Why do we have tons of regulations? Some researchers believes that errors is in every human’s nature, and if these wrongdoing instincts express them freely, human society will soon be in disastrous chaos—car accidents spring up in every road, juries stop being scrutinizing and responsible, and social etiquettes die. Regulations maintain human society stable by ensuring that citizens have to pay heavily if they make some mistakes. Thus, mistakes sometimes can be unwelcome, while contributing no discoveries and progress to the world.

Not only do mistakes not necessarily lead to discovery or progress, but also the latter may not always come from the former. Rational thinking and reasoning breed discovery and move the world on just as effectively as some mistakes do. The New World was discovered by Columbus under careful planning and painstaking pursuing and Universal Gravitation was discovered by Newton under logical deduction and analogy. By using macro-control, China has made fast progress in domestic economy. If one emphasizes the merits of mistakes to much, he/she probably may neglect the broader picture of how human managed to struggle forward through history.

To conclude, it is safe to acknowledge mistakes’ contributions in advancing human society, but they cannot always give birth to new discovery or progress, nor can they be attributed as the single driving force.

Argument 6

The following was written as a part of an application for a small business loan by a group of developers in the city of Monroe.
'A jazz music club in Monroe would be a tremendously profitable enterprise. Currently, the nearest jazz club is 65 miles away; thus, our proposed club, the C Note, would have the local market all to itself. Plus, jazz is extremely popular in Monroe: over 100,000 people attended Monroe's jazz festival last summer, several well-known jazz musicians live in Monroe, and the highest-rated radio program in Monroe is 'Jazz Nightly,' which airs every weeknight. Finally, a nationwide study indicates that the typical jazz fan spends close to $1,000 per year on jazz entertainment. It is clear that the C Note cannot help but make money.’

This argument proposes that A jazz music club in Monroe will be a profitable enterprise because of reasons like " the nearest jazz club is 65 miles away" and "jazz is extremely popular in Monroe" and so on. While it is reasonable at a first glance, this argument suffers some critical flaws that seriously undermine its conclusion. The main flaws of the argument will be discussed respectively.

First, this argument relies on a gratuitous assumption that 65 miles away is a distance far enough to secure C Note jazz music club's customers. However, this assumption is improper generalized because the argument fails to indicate the size of the city Monroe. If Monroe is a super cosmopolitan city which is the largest metropolitan in the world, a distance of 65 miles may only mean several blocks away. Even if it is out of Monroe dwellers neighborhoods, zealous jazz music fans can be enthusiastic enough to travel 65 miles only to attend a jazz music club night just as most Michael Jacksons' fans do. Thus, without identify the size of Monroe city, the author cannot convince me that a 65 miles away jazz music club will not be able to compete with C Note club.

Second, the argument assumes that jazz music is popular in Monroe based on the fact that over 100,000 people attended Monroe's jazz festival last summer, several well-known jazz musicians live in Monroe, 'Jazz Nightly' is the highest-rated radio program in Monroe. However, these facts cannot explain the author's generalization. Does 100,000 people mean a majority of Monroe residents? Do the well-known jazz musicians live in Monroe full-time and willing to contribute to C Note club? Does radio programs audience have the time enough to listen to podcast from morning till night? The argument, whether intentionally or not, overlooks these crucial factors.100,000 people may only accounts for 1 percent of the total population in Monroe; well-known jazz musicians may serve in jazz music clubs in other cities; 'Jazz Nightly' may attract audience simply because it broadcasts during the rush hours when people are stuck in roads. Therefore, in order to substantiate its statement that jazz music is popular in Monroe and support its proposal that C Note will be a success in Monroe, the argument should answer those questions mentioned above with detailed figures.

Last but not the least, the argument confuses different concepts of economics. Profit has no relationship with popularity. When saying a enterprise is profitable, we imply that the total income outweights the costs. Cost is dependent of many complicated factors like employees, transpotations; income is also relating to elements like service, prices. Populour enterprise is not profitable if it have to spend more money than it has earned in order to sustain its popularity. Hence, without identify all of the economic factors concerning the club, this argument's conclusion is entirely ungrounded.

In conclusion, the arguer fails to substantiate his/her claim that C Note club will be profitable. The reasons listed in his/her analysis is insufficient to support the statement. To strengthen the argument, the author should specify the size of Monroe city, provide comparable data concerning Monroe citizens, those well-known musicians and Jazz Nightly's audiences, and suffice the economic factors of the club's operation.