Yide+Chen

01.10.2011
There are two things happened today that I wan to talk about. The one thing is that I had a new workmate in Nelson. Actually, I have a new colleague in my Sunday shift, and I talked to her delightfully even though we finished all the works until 9 pm. The other thing that I want to mention is my new roommate. He is from South Korea, and he is a nice man. However, he will change the room few days later just because the noise from the heater which bother him a lot. Yesterday I slept very late, and I did not sleep very well. My roommate waked up at 6 am and made a noise. He told me he cannot sleep in this noise from the heater. So, I only got 4 hours to sleep. It really becomes a big deal to both of us.

01.11.2011 Today, the most impressive thing is the EE lab. Actually, when I finished that lab, I felt that I really want to change my EE major. Before the lab started today, I did a careful preview, and asked questions to my friend. He has already taken this class. I thought it will goes east tomorrow. However, it happened out of my expectation totally. The first questions were not hard to answer, but in the last part of lab, we should finished the every step before asked tutor. Also, my partner was a Indian, and his English is decent. Therefor, we spent a longer time that other groups did. In fact, we were the last group that left the lab. Fortunately, we make friends with each other.

01.13.2011 Yesterday night I talked with my Korea roommate long time because both of us did not want to sleep. He shared the different experience in his country. We also talked about some hot issues like the situation of both South Korea and North Korea and cosmetic operation. Honestly, I like my roommate, and he is a nice man. From the day that we lived together, I detected that the one of a positive way to study English is to talk to a person whose English is also not his or her first language because you will not feel stressful when you talk to him or her, and you will feel comfortable. In fact, I came here almost 2 years, but I do not think my speaking skills improve enormous. Many people believe that when you achieve a speaking environment your language skills will make a progress. Now during this 2 years, we do have time to talk to American, but we still cannot understand them well or talk to them fluently. How hard is the English? How long will I talk to American freely? I confused.

01.14. 2011 Today, it is my first class that I did not catch up what my teacher said in the EE class. Honestly, I do not think that EE basic classes are very tough because they actually talk about some fundamental knowledge. However, because of my vocabulary and the class will go harder, some words that I did not understand affected to comprehend the class. In the afternoon, I took out of my notebook when I ate in the dining hall. After I read the note book once, I gradually understand what the teacher talked in the class. Now, I remember the time in OP. We did not need to worry about the class because the class are basic, and the teacher explained the everything carefully. Also, the classrooms were very small, every student had a chance to talk to teacher. However, even academic classes are harder, I will still try to overcome and improve myself during the tough time.

01.17.2011 There are nothing special happened today because when I waked up, the time was almost 2:00pm. I missed whole morning. Actually, I slept 6:30am in the morning after I finished playing Dota in the Internet. I still remember I promised to myself that even during the weekend I have to sleep no later than 1:30am because if I sleep late, tomorrow I will be exhausted whole day. Also, weekend is a good chance to hang out with friend, but I do not want to spend all of time on it. It still needs me to arrange a part of time for studying. In the afternoon, I ate with my girlfriend in China King which is a Chinese restaurant, and most of my friend like to eat there. In this restaurant, there are two kinds of services. One is buffet, and the other one is order the food. Today, I chose buffet, and she ordered a noodle. Actually she really loves noodle, and we enjoyed food together.

01.19.2011 It was really a exhausted day today. 4 hours sleep cannot maintained my energy. Actually, there was really nothing special happened today. I played computer game again today before I took nap. Sometime, I knew it waste large amount of time, but I cannot control myself when I really want to play it. Honestly, it do affects me. Sometime, my girlfriend talk to me in the phone when I was playing game, and I will be very impatient. So it becomes the origin of our argument. Sometime my friend is waiting for me to do sth together, but I did not finish the game. Therefore, I was late several times. Also, it delays my plan even against my plan. I intended to recite English words everyday, but I want to play computer games as well. In fact, I really hope that I can quit this bad habit soon.

01.20.2011 Today, the snow comes again, and it is heavier than before. I still remember that I fell down in the front of Morton. I think it happened last week. After I finished Mathe class, I went back to the dormitory as usually. However, I did not noticed that the ice attached on the floor. When I walked on it, I suddenly felt that I lost balance. Than, you can guess what happened to me is I fell down heavily, and fell backwards with hands and legs in the air. Fortunately, there were only few people in there. In that moment, I felt so embarrassed, and one person talked to me:" It was also happened to me yesterday." " Yeah, that is sucks" I thought. Therefore, today I was so careful.

01,21 2011 It was freezing today. I never met the weather like today. In my hometown is not this cold, but we do not have heater inside. Therefore, in the house we still wear too much. In the morning, the wind flow beside my face, and it really likes a knife scrapes my face. Oh, I forgot one thing that I did not sleep yesterday and I went to class directly. Actually I was very sleepy when I left my dorm. However, after I went to outside, I waked up immediately. When I wen into the first class, my ears turned to red. I was so sleepy in the morning classes, but I slept until 4:30 pm since I was not tired in the afternoon. If there was no quiz today, I really want to skip those classes.

01.25.2011 Today, I attend a IEEE (it stands for the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) conference. Honestly, I did not want to go that meeting, but our teacher told us he will give us extra credit if we attend that meeting. Therefore, in order to earn more credit, I decided to go there. Actually, the meeting was about how to plan your future career, and some skills of interview. Students should first know their advantages and disadvantages, and than try to find a appropriate company that you will work in the future. Also, during the interview, you'd better to show that how well you understand their company, and show your working experience. Only in this way, they can remember you in a large numbers of interviewers. At the end of conference they told us a tip during the interview which is never ask salary during the interview test. In fact, I think that is obvious, and no one want a employee merely focus on money.

01.27.2011 When checked my schedule this week, I found that actually there are too many thing I have to do this week. I had a notebook which record what I am going to do in the following week. On Tuesday, I had Math mid-term test, which was very very crucial for me. Just after Math mid-term test, I had EE102 lab to do, and needed to spend long time to prepare this lab. In addition, EE101 homework was due to Wednesday at begging of the class. Also, I have quiz in Friday. However, now I almost finished this week. Therefore, I can arrange my time to relax. Math mid-term test and EE102 lab, both of them I did well. I checked once after I finish the exam, so the result of the test will be satisfied. EE102 lab became easier as well. I was not confused as last time I did lab1. Now I am just looking forward a nice weekend.

01.28.2011 It is a bored day today. Actually nothing interesting happened. In the morning, I had a quiz on the EE101 class, and that quiz was related about probability. In fact, we have learned when we were in high school. Therefore, it was not hard for Chinese student, and we merely took 10 minutes to finish it. There was only one problem that we have different solutions, and we bet that losers have to treat winners in Chinese restaurant. It sounds very interesting. During the Maths class, we got the result of mid-term examination. It was actually on our expectation, and most students in Maths class did well in that test. Teacher said that he should increase the difficulty of next examination. By the way, today is the last day of this week, and now it is very good time to enjoy weekend with friends. We planed to eat hotpot tonight, and I am looking forward it.

01.30.2011 At the Friday night, I enjoyed hotpot with my friends. We bought many materials from Chinese supermarket. Actually, a lot of Chinese really like hotpot, but in Athens all the Chinese restaurants do not offer it. Therefore, we have to do it by ourselves. Also, hotpot is very popular in winter since it warms tour body. On Saturday, I planned to study EE102 and finish the assignments that teacher left last week. However, my girlfriend lost her keys when we finished lunch. In fact, my girlfriend is a careless person. She made many mistakes that you cannot expect. We found the restaurant that we had lunch in it, and scanned the road that we walked, but we still did not find it. Finally, she asked her RA, and she told her that she left the keys when she was opening elevator, and somebody found it. She forgot to pull out the keys after her turned on elevator.

02.01.2011 The Chinese new year will come soon, but in Athens I hardly find the atmosphere of Chinese new year. I think this is students life who studay abroad. Unluckyly, this week is a busy week to me. I have both EE101 and EE102 mid term examinations, and I did not prepare very well. Since today is the day before Spring Festival eve, my parents asked me to meet them in the Internet, and they will go to my grandparents house. They told me to meet them at 7 o'clock in the morning because we have time different. However, when I waked up at 7 and turned on my computer, I found that they left a message to me which showed they remembered wrong time, and asked me meet them at tommorrow same time. OMG, I will waked up at 7 again. It is really tired, but I cannot decline.

02.03.2011 Today is the Chinese New Year festival which is called Spring Festival. I waked up late so that I cannot talk to my parents. I took a telephone call to them, and apologized. Also, I sent my best wishes to my famliy and my relatives. I think we have to do something that memorize this sepcial time. Therefore, in the noon after I finished my class. I asked my friends to meet at China King, and we enjoyed a feast. Indeed, we ordered many dumplings. During the lunch, we exchanged gifts. I ate dinner with my girlfriend in her friend house. We made dumplings together, and ate together. Acutally, it was a really pleasent day.

02.04.2011 Today is full of excercises. I waked up late in the morning, and I runned to my department to go to class. Actually, my dormitory locate in South, but unfortunately my class is in the Stocker Center which means I need to walk 15-20 minutes to there everyday in the morning. After class, I runned to Morton Hall since there is only 10 minutes break between two classes, and if I walk to Morton I will late for next class. Therefore, it was a very busy morning today. At night, I went to Ping Center with my friends to play basketball, and I met a old friend in there. We knew each other because we played basketball before, but we have long time that did not see each other. He is a RA in a dormitory in East Green, and he is a funny guy. We talked a lot during the game.

02.05.2011 I am looking forwark today since long time ago because today I will see the Chinese new year celebration gala in memorial. It started at 3:00 pm today, and I arrived here 2:30 with my girlfriend. Both of us were very excited, and we wanted to get good seats in order to see performence clearly. Honestly, it was a very great show, and it lasted almost 3 hours. There were a plenty of Chinese traditional performences like dancing, Beijing opera, and Xiangsheng, and those actors provided us a excellent atmosphere that every audience enjoy this gala very much.

02.07.2011 Today, I finished my lab project in Math 263b with my group. Then, I really understood two significant points. First of all, I realized that I could not complete a perfect project by myself, but if I did it with my group workers, they would provide a lot of interesting and critical ideas. So, we could combine those ideas and choose the most useful ideas in our project. Secondly, we must finish it as a good group. When one of a group members just want to share those useful resources and do not attend any group meeting, it will cause the some problems in this group. What's worse, if everyone has same idea like the first people and just wait for the others, the project must have a low grade.

02.09.2011 I was reading this article for my media class. my professor strongly encourage us to read it ourself, and try to learn how to be a proactive person. in the article "be proactive", the author explained that a proactive person should be influence others not be influence. and they will be a great leader, and problem solver. for a proactive person, they can thinking things in a different way. they can be very subjective. any hardship is always a great experience. they never afraid about be in front. they affect others by their reasonable saying and action. i really be a proactive person.

02.12.2011 Yesterday i watched a movie which called green honort. it's a action and comdy movie and my friend and i enjoyed it very much. i forgot the main actor's name but i remember the other main actor's name who is jay zhou. he is the most popular musician in china. everytime we hear the music from him, we will feel happy. jay zhou is good at singing, writing but dancing. he did good job in this movie and he is very handsome i think. in the green honotrt, he perform a man who can creat lots of high techi and new cars. he can fight with a group of people and he always win.

02.13.2011 I am kind of good listener, but I don't want to listen nonsense topic. I hate people who talk about other business in pessimistic vision. I've seen a lot of people who care other people daily routine, and I am so sick of getting along with such people. Do people need to care about others business? I don't mean you don't have to care others, but you don't have to judge on other person. In this recession era, some people are hard to survive for their lives. Thus, people might be entertained to get away from stress. If they are being enjoy in their short live as long as they don't insult to anybody, why don't you let them be for their freedom.

02.14.2011 I know that the EE102 lab is going to come tomorrow, so I decided to do some review. I still remember that last labs I did not do very well, and the tutor in that lab told me to scan the lab handout before I go to lab. Honestly, the reason why I did not do well during the lab is I did not look the handouts before I go to lab. Therefore, during the lab, I do not have something to talk or disscus with my partner. In other words, whether I do well or not in the lab, it depends on how well of my partner did. In fact, it was really bad, so I have to change it. I asked my friend who already did it, and I scaned the handouts. I believe the lab on tomorrow will be better, and I am looking forward it.

02.15.2011 Last week, I got a letter from my department that showed me in order to register classes in the next quarter, I need pick up my DARS report from my advicer. Therefore, I made an appointment at today 3:00 pm. After I finished EE lab, I went to my adviser's office. Since my lab is in the Stocker Center, it was convenient that I pick up my DARS after lab. My advicer works in 3rd floor, and I still remembered the situation that I picked up my DARC last quarter. Actually it was a really quick process, and it took only 5 minutes. I did not know what should I ask and how can I keep talking with him. The same thing that happened today that I finished it very quick, but I asked some questions to him, and it was generally a nice talk.

02.16.2011 I will have Math exam in this Friday. Actually I did very well on the last test, but teacher said he will increase the difficulty of next exam. Therefore, I start to worry about that. Hopefully, in the later of today, teacher provided us a simple test of next exam, and it is due on Friday, which means the exam will be delay until next week, and I will have more time to prepare it. Honestly, the problems that we learned these days are going to be ackward, and I cannot treat the exam as the last one I did, so I plan to take more exercises and review the note from teacher. I wish I will achieve a great sore on the following exam.

02.19.2011 My friend bought a kitchen's key from his RA since we want to cook in the dorm. We wanted to do hotpot, but under the regulation of OU, cooking in the dorm is prohibit. So we try confront this problem, and finally we notice that we can cook in the kitchen which locates in some dorm base floor. We bought this key for spending 15 dollors, and we keep using kitchen room for whole quarter. I think it is worth to pay for that 15 dollors becasue we can enjoy food and play boardgame together in there. We spended 2 hours to perpare food. Although it taked very long for waiting those food, we enjoyed very much, and it was a unforgetable night.

02.21.2011 I planed to go to Orlando and Miami during this spring break with my friends since both of my girlfriend and I want to see Disney World and enjoy wonderful beach, but we have many problems about this trip. First, do we drive to Orlando or take flight to here. If we drive to there we can save a little of money, and we can visit the cities which on the way to Orlando as well. However, if we take flight, we can save time, and we will achieve more time to travel in Orlando and Miami. Second, We need to decide whether we live in an apartment or hotel. If we live in apartment, we can cook every time we want unless we really want to try local food outside. Therefore, there are plenty of problems that we need to prepare before we leave.

02.24.2011 Today it is a very embarrassed day for me. What made me so embarrassed was I broke a dish in the Nelson daining hall. Actually, it happened really quick. When I finished to grab the food, I went to the beverage bar to get some drink. Since there was no room for putting my tray, I putted half of it on the table. However, the dishes that all I had were in the other side of tray which means they heavy part of tray was putted outside. Therefore, the embarrassed thing happened after I got drink. At that moment, the only thing came out of my brain was do I need to pay for it? Fortunately, they just asked me did I hurt my figures, and told me don't warry about it and they will take care of it. Sigh, it was a really bad day for me.

02.26.2011 I was very happey since I went to Apple Bee with my friends today. Apple Bee is a very famous and popular restaurant in US which offers plenty of different fast food. Today actually is my first time to go there. I just heard Apple Bee from my American friends, and they recommanded me a lot of times to eat there. We had eight people to go there together, and all boys ordered a 20-dollar combo which has an appetizer with 2 main food choices. Honestly, the food in Apple Bee are good, and the servicers are also very nice. They are enthusiatic. Moreover, the price of food acceptable. Thus, if you guys have time, I also recommand you guys try Apple Bee once.

02.27.2011 Today, we finally make sure all the plans of traveling to Orlando and Miami. Actually, before we go to Oralando, we need to book tickets of all the theme park like Disney, and there are a multitude of choices that we can choose. Also, these choices depend on which park do you want to visit. Therefore, we are hardly to unite our decisions together. Hopefully, after a quick discussion, we obtain a ultimate solusion. What I chose is two days all parks ticket which means I can go to all the parks in any time, but the price is a little bit higher than the regular one. By the way, I am really looking forward of it.

02.28.2011 I cannot easily forget today since I dorp my job from Nelson. Actually, I love what I do in the Nelson dining hall, and I also love those people who work with me. However, I have to drop my work because in this quarter I have too many thing to do. I got 2 more hours for every week which is two labs that means I have 18 hours in the quarter. The one is easy, but the other one is really hard, and I have to spend more time on it. Actually I did not choose classes which are over 16 hours before. Furthermore, the one shift I owned in Nelson hall conflict with my SI class. In this quarter, I also join in a SI class which is help you to improve what the classes you are taking now. Thus, I hardly arrenge my time on my jobs, so I have to drop my job from Nelson even I do not want to do it. After I finished all things, the one of student lead said good-bey to me, and said I am very glad to work with you. When I listened it, I feel really sad, and I know this is kind of separation. However, I think one day I will back to the Nelson and work with those people again.

03.01.2011 Today, I have plenty things to do because two homeworks due to tomorrow, so I decide to study in library. I came to libaray at 8 pm, and I think it is enough time to finish all the assignments by spending 4 hours. Nonetheless, some thing happened was out of my expectation that I met a classmate in the third floor who is my EE101 classmate. He asked me did I finish the last Friday homework,( Actually last Friday homework will be also collected on tomorrow) and he doesn't know how to do it. It was a hard time for me, I also have a lot of thing to do, and it maybe spend me more than 4 hours, but I still accpet his request. Than, I spent almost one hour to tell him how to do that assignments. After we finish that, he was very appreciated, and I also felt happy since I helped my classmate by using English.

03.03.2011 Next fall quarter, I can move off campus, so I want to choose whether I live in the campus or move outside. If I want to move outside I have to decide where I am going to live. Also, if I want to live in the campus, I have to pay for deposite for renew that houseing contract. Therefore, nothing can be delayed, and I have to make a finally decision as soon as possible since there are few houses left both campus and off-campus.

03.06.2011 What is the real friendship? How can you be a good friend? It is so important to help each other to overcome the difficulties. Today, I realize that everyone is good but not all of them are your friends. Cheating friends is not ethical thing, but it happens all the time in our life. Sometimes I think people haev to be mature and to understand that life should be simple. Gossip and Cheat are not good for you or your friends. To appreciate what you have now and love your friends is the right thing that you should do in your life. Do not be too later to realize that.