Our Backpacking Trips » @ school http://ourbackpackingtrips.com Where to next? Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 put me out of my misery… http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/05/08/put-me-out-of-my-misery/ http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/05/08/put-me-out-of-my-misery/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 17:25:55 +0000 lichin http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/?p=64 10 o’clock and i feel like dying already… well not really but i really hate this fucking class!! my professor wrote “tanz theatre” and “laban”… whatever the fuck that means, if it has nothing to do with accounting, i dont give a rats ass. i think i’m just a little cranky… the weather has been shit for the past 2-3 days or so. i mean honestly… i cant remember the last time it sprinkled in may. there is no such thing as “spring showers” here in so cal. dont get me wrong, i like gloomy/rainy weather… BUT I ONLY LIKE IT IN WINTER MONTHS. its may… it should be hot and sunny, but its not… so its totally fucking with me. i think the weather was the cause of my mad hiccups the other night. it was a nasty round of hiccups too.

anyways… i was looking through the pennysaver yesterday and was browsing through the pet section (i know i know i’ve been preaching about adopting… but i was just “looking”) and i found HIM!! there was an add for chocolate lab puppies!! i was soooo damn tempted to call the number but i held back. you know that one doggie flea meds commerical on tv that goes “there aint no bugs on me, there aint no bugs on me, there may be bugs on some of you mugs but there aint no bugs on me” with the talking lab puppy? well… he has totally won me over. I WANT A LAB!!


isnt he cute!?! aww~!!!

but whatever… i’m still adopting. hopefully i’ll find a lab to adopt at the animal shelter somewhere and even more hopefully… its a puppy!

i’m totally restless right now. memorial day weekend is still more than 2 weeks away! augh!

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everything happened in 1st grade. when i first moved to the united states from taiwan. i didnt know a word of english and i was a huge fob. i remember 3 events very distinctly:

1) “My Very First Assignment” – it was the first day of school, each of us little kids had our GIANT name tags taped to the top left hand corner of our desks. the teacher passed out our very first in class assignemnt. she said something to the class – something i didnt understand because i didnt know english – then every one started writing. so… i did the first thing that came to my mind… i copied the whatever the girl next to me wrote. so i wrote “Alic…” then the teacher came over and said “no no” – she pointed to my name tag, then pointed to the paper where i attempted to write “Alicia”. okay i got it, so i wrote some one elses name on my paper. *FOB Strike One*

2) “The Spelling Test” - we have weekly spelling tests. on weds, mrs. hurfurt (my first grade teacher) gives us a “pre test”, but if we get 100% on weds we dont have to take the final test on friday. since it was our VERY FIRST spelling test she let us “cheat” on the weds test… like have us practice what its like to take an actual test. so we could look at our cheat sheet for the weds test. the 3 words that we had were: can, man, run. on friday, for the final test, we had the same words… BUT NO CHEATING this time. but of course i didnt know know. so i… “cheated”. of course i got caught and mrs. hurfurt made me put away my cheat sheet. i didnt study because i didnt know i had to, so of course i got an F on that test. i felt so bad. so i went home with those 3 words and took it up to my dad. told him about the spelling tests that we’ve been having. he helped me study those 3 words (can, man, run) all weekend. he tested me forward and backwards. for a kid who doesnt know a word of english… this was very difficult. i studied even monday through weds morning. then came the “pre test” on weds. before the teacher read out the words, i immediately wrote down “can, man, run”… all spelled correctly on my paper. i was so proud of myself, for sure i got 100% on the pretest and i didnt have to take the final test on friday. then i got my test back on thrusday… i got another F, the teacher pulled me aside and explained to me why. it turns out “can, man, run” were LAST week’s words. this week we got a new set of words. *FOB Strike Two*

3) “Going To the Bathroom” - its not easy being “the new kid” and not knowing a single word of english makes it even harder. so… i had to pee one day and all by myself i found the freggin bathroom to release my bladder. yay! i returned to the same bathroom quite a few times through out the week to take my daily piss until one day… i ran into a little boy in the bathroom. um, yea… i was just as shocked as he was. my first thought was “oh my… americans ‘hao sui bian’ boys and girls go to the same bathroom?”, it turns out… i was in the wrong bathroom. he pointed down the hall where another restroom was located, oh okay… i get it now. this explains the mystery of the urinals on the wall. *FOB Strike Three*

oh by the way… happy earth day!! i planted 2 trees yesterday!! =)

]]> http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/04/22/when-you-young/feed/ 0 The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/04/16/the-last-lecture-really-achieving-your-childhood-dreams/ http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/04/16/the-last-lecture-really-achieving-your-childhood-dreams/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:09:56 +0000 lichin http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/?p=48 before professors become tenured at Carnegie Mellon, they sign a contract that forces them to give a “last lecture”. this “last lecture” is very hypothetical, ie. what if you die tomorrow, what would your last lecture be to your students?… you know hypothetical. so this professor named Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon who has pancreatic cancer with 12 tumors inside of his body. the doctors cannot operate on him. Pausch has a few more months to live before he dies. He is 37 with a wife and 3 kids. so his “last lecture” is LITERALLY THE LAST LECTURE. i highly recommend that you guys take 1 hr 20 mins out of your day to watch the CMU version of the video (and 10 mins to watch the oprah version of it – there are additional info). it has to do with life… how to achieve your dreams. how to look at things in a different prespective, when you think something has gone to shit, look at it in a different way… it wont seem that bad. i mean seriously… do you want to live your one life miserably? heck, i know i dont. i absolutely love his useage of “the brick wall” because i’ve hit so many of those and i still keep ramming my head into it…

 
oprah version


the actual CMU version.

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1/n sin x = ?

]]> http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/04/06/and-this/feed/ 0 GMAT solution http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/04/06/gmat-solution/ http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/04/06/gmat-solution/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:50:22 +0000 limo http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/?p=27 Mike’s GMAT problem is weak, try this

Expand (a+b)n

The answer for that is:

]]> http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/04/06/gmat-solution/feed/ 0 Gmat Math Question of the Day http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/04/06/gmat-math-question-of-the-day/ http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/04/06/gmat-math-question-of-the-day/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:45:19 +0000 mike http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/?p=23 If x + y = 8z, then which of the following represents the average (arithmetic mean) of x,y, and z, in terms of z?

(A) 2z + 1

(B) 3z

(C) 5z

(D) z/3

(E) (3z) / 2

 

Doh!  This seemingly easy question stumped me and took me way more than the alloted 2 minutes to figure out.

]]> http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/04/06/gmat-math-question-of-the-day/feed/ 1 its gonna be a long 10 weeks… http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/04/04/its-gonna-be-a-long-10-weeks/ http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/04/04/its-gonna-be-a-long-10-weeks/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:00:09 +0000 lichin http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/?p=18 the last time i took a GE class was probably like…. back in my 2nd year of college so i forgot what its like to learn something else other than accounting. i’m so used to hearing the usual terms: debits, credits, cost of goods sold, expensed, revenue, net income, balance sheet, cash flow, pension, tax, payable… ect. now i’m hearing “contentional drift” and “triassic” and some other terms that i’ve heard before but dont really care about. i thought this would be an easy qtr but i dont think thats how its gonna turn out. its like my brain shut out everything else that doesnt have to do with accounting, its refusing to take in any information that doesnt have anything to do with accounting. i am so restless in this class (california geography). time is dragging its feet. i cant believe the guys sitting next to me are taking notes on the lecture. WHAT IS THERE TO TAKE NOTES ABOUT?!

anyways… i paid my $40 graduation fee. after i get done with my oceanography class i’m headed over to the registrar’s office to drop off the graduation application form (which has been date/time stamped “paid”). i’m pretty much good to go. i’m ready to walk into the world with my soon to be fully educated brain. WORLD: HERE I COME!! but the job market is really bad right now… unemployment rate is at 5.1%, yikes!

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