I am back. It has been so long since the last time I was here. The past year was amazingly fast and so incredible to look back. Apparently, time lapses just a lot easier when one gets his hands full. Blending in the new culture, learning new stuff, and being vibrant kind of become my daily routine being in a new country. Have to say that life is never easy anywhere around, yet it never hurts to pick oneself up in the down time. Whatsoever, life is about taking the risk, which is the root of the meaning and fun of what we are living for. (Attached a photo taken in my backyard :') )

Is there anyone who wanna do language exchange in Great Boston area?

Hey, there. This is Joy. I am leaving for Boston, Waltham to be exact, to continue my graudate study this August. Is there anyone who want to do language exchange in Great Boston area? I can speak pretty fluent English and I can teach Mandarin as well. Hope to know more friends from this area!

Commemoration of My First Offer from Graduate School I got my very first offer from Syracuse University yesterday, with a merited-scholarship – within 48 hours after my interview. The night before yesterday, I dreamt that I got the offer from this university for three times – so real that I was drowned in great disappointment when I found that there was actually no email waiting for me the next morning when I climbed down from my bed to check – the first thing I did after getting up. My status on my VIP account at Syracuse University still read, “Decision made. The result will be email to you tomorrow morning”. Waiting absolutely ranks the first as the most miserable things in the world, torturing those who are praying for hope in the dark. Thank god I had classes with tough assignments the whole morning to distract me from such disappointment, but actually, I still can’t help thinking about when the email would arrive from time to time. To gain some good luck, I had Lucky Wonton for lunch. The email from school administration office arrived at 15:12. I was so excited the moment seeing the notification email lying in my email-box quietly that I could hear my heart beat and couldn’t just settle down to read it – although I still don’t know the result. I closed my eyes for a while and took several deep breathe to help me adjust my state. I almost hit the roof when I eventually saw the result -- all worries were blown away and only happiness stayed! I just declined the offer from Ernst & Young last Thursday, so I got a little anxious about what it would be like if I got none offer from any of the universities I applied. This timely offer injected me with a limbo that I can calm down at least for a while. And at least I have realized one of my dreams before the world ends – if “December 21st, 2012” does exist (which will soon be examined by time). Hereon, I want to thank all my friends from italki who have helped me with the correction of my essays and lent me a hand with my interview practice. I might not have achieved what I have without your kindly assist. Thank you all! P.S. There was great snow in Tianjin yesterday. The picture below is a snowman we made at our school! Merry Christmas to all my friends in advance!

My Thinking On My 22rd Single Day Although the Single Day this year has been almost 24 hours behind me right now, I still want to record what was on my mind on that special day. It was my 22nd Single Day in my life to be exact, but the last one in my college years (my undergraduate years at least). I submitted my applications for seven schools on this day, expecting that I will get admitted by at least one of them in the near future, which would incur a huge difference to my life. Afterwards, I couldn’t help thinking over the meaning of the life while most of others were dedicated to fancy parties and crazy shopping war. The graduation from university seems like a boundary between naive juvenile and real grown-up. Whether I will be accepted into my dream schools or I will take the offer from Ernst & Young, for sure, I will have to be far away from where I was raised and grew up, separating from my family and old friends for a long while. A great chance exists that it could be years before I fly back home for a get-together from another side of the hemisphere if I am enrolled into my dream schools as I wish. Having been fighting to accumulate knowledge and experience through my undergraduate years, am I fully prepared for the changes in my life? Am I truly ready for this will-be homesick? Will I adapt to my new life and enjoy it indeed? Will I find my true love and get new faithful friends? Will I find as good a job as I have one or two years after the graduation from graduate school? All those doubts flooded into my brain, haunting me and dragging me in such a profound thought. Yesterday is a history, tomorrow is a mystery – sadly, that is what the truth is all about. Who knows what will happen the next second? It is more practical to fix our attention on what happen to us at present – this year, this month, this day, this hour, this minute, and this second. But, sometimes, it benefits us to take a careful thinking over the subject about what we really want, a compass directs throughout our lifetime, even though most of the time, for most of the people, no specific conclusion comes out of such thinking. Sincerely hope that I will be enrolled into the schools I applied, and wish this could be my last Single Day in my life!

Which should be my choice: work or apply for masters abroad?

Hi, everyone. I am a girl who will graduate next year, whose major is certified public accountant. I spent all the time preparing for applying for masters abroad next year. I wanna immigrate to America by getting a permenant job there.

 

Recently, I just got official offers from Enrst & young and Deloitte, two of the Big Four. And during my internship at Deloitte, I learnt that many Chinese have a hard time getting a job in U.S. after finishing their master degree there. I am  in a dilemma now. I am not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. It costs too much for me to study abroad if I can't get a permenant job there. I can actually get a good job in China. the only problem working in China is that I don't like the lifestyle here (lots of working overtime ) and I have spent almost all my college years preparing for my studying abroad stuff. I hate to see that I am wasting my time and my life.

 

The appliction process will be on in September and those two companies also requires me to give them a clear answer about whether to stay or not by September. What should I do now..

 

I wanna hear the voice of you!

Theory of Relativity on the Train (1) Special relativity, which was introduced by Einstein, sounds like a profound topic to most of us. Ordinary as we are, we may bear the thought on our minds that science is so remote a topic from our everyday life that we will never come across it within our brief lifetime. However, science does not mean anything if it cannot be actually felt in the air you take in everyday. The experience of taking the train in Beijing is a mixture of complicated feelings, especially during the rush hour. Speed, to a great extent, influences time, while time and space are closely related to each other. The fast-pace of big city, naturally and unconsciously, turns our modern time into a savage era sometimes. When you are in the long line waiting for a train to arrive and are pushed by the crowds from all directions early in the morning, a time when sky is still too sleepy to open up its own eyes, you do the same thing back to those who are around you unconsciously. Although such phenomenon origins from the self-protection mechanism – everyone is avoiding being pushed by pushing others away, selfishness, which is also one of the human natures, is greatly enlarged at this point anyway. Most of the time, the train is stuffed like a stomach that is malfunctioning because of plenitude, with all kinds of smells mixed together. Although suffering from the indigestion, the train still allows more and more “food” to be stuffed in. No one can actually do anything relaxing under such circumstance: It is too crowded that there is no room for even a piece of newspaper; it is too noisy to enjoy the melody in your Mp3 player but the cry of people, “DON’T PUSH ME!”; it is too stuffy to breath in fresh air since what you can only breathe is the air just coming out of others’ noses. Everyone is bored and then time dilation occurs. Nothing interesting will ever occur unless you have your thought fly off-limit. ( Go to this link to check part (2) of this article:) http://www.italki.com/notebook/entry/223533.htm

Theory of Relativity On the Train (2) According to special relativity, a moving clock is measured to tick more slowly than a stationary one. Of course the speed of the train is not fast enough to support the precondition of special relativity, but the point is when the space and the time are filled with only blank emptiness inside, the atoms on the time grid are dilated. From my perspective, the reason why time is dilated under such condition is that our thought, for most of people, stagnates. The feeling of the separation of our body and our thoughts prolongs the time within our own zones, while others do not feel anything changing. As I stated before, time is also an intermedium, a medium that connects velocity and space. In special relativity, maximum speed is finite: No physical object, message or field line can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But if the velocity is fast enough, superseding even the speed of light, which is considered the summit of the speed in our known universe up until now, will time go backward? (Go to this link to check part (3) of this article: ) http://www.italki.com/notebook/entry/223529.htm

Theory of Relativity On the Train Every time when I am stuck in the middle of the crowds, a road stretches out of my brain, taking my imagination away as if my imagination is on a rocket of lightening. When I close my eyes, I feel that I have left the world of noise far behind and have been to somewhere spacious with this peaceful tranquility that the heartbeat of time stops. No concept of time exists at this point. The world of mine and that of others are kind of seperated -- absolute space and time are replaced by relative ones. What the experience of such “theory of relativity” really matters is that it gives us a hint about the attitudes we hold toward our life. We may take the same train every day, standing next to each other and breathing in the air recycling between each other, but what are on our minds might be wildly divergent, deciding the kinds of life condition we will be live in, in that day at least or throughout our life at large. We can frown and complain that we are trapped in a curse that can never be dispelled, or we can also smile and set our minds free, taking our heart on a journey freely. From a macroscopic layer, the world is uniform because we all live under one sky; from a microscopic layer, there are no two pieces of leaves alike, neither are any two persons’ worlds. I agree with the point of physicist that world is uniform. However, I am in favor of the view of spiritualist more that our own worlds are constructed upon our minds and spirits, which will make all the difference!

How can I immigrate to America?

Hi, there. I'm a Chinese girl who is going to start my master degree in America the next year. After my graduation 2 or 3 years later, I want to stay there and get a citizenship. I know it is hard, especially for Chinese to stay there. I need some suggestions on this issue. And I wanna know which city would u choose to stay if u put urself in my shoes. THANK U!