Saying Goodbye With Tears

It is in fact quite curious, that I have not made my tears dropped since the failure of my college entrance exams. Obviously, the failure that time is dramatically beating to me, that I can even not forget the ache in my heart when hearing the score and ranking from the telephone. It was quite a harsh time, that I was deeply, without any exceptions, dropped into the trap of depression. There were only thunder and storm, but not the sunshine and gentle wind in heart.

  1. What is the greatest depression?

    For many days I have been asserted of fully experienced on bad days. I didn’t feel much disappointed when I had to give up my hope of applying for the graduate school of Rennin University of China, I also feel okay when I was suffering from the beating of the GRE performance, and thus I would have  to, again, drop my hope of studying in US. And even when I heard about the death of my grandma, who brought me up during the whole childhood, I recovered myself in two weeks. However, I don’t know for how many days I would make myself recovered this time.

    In my friends’ eyes, I am, without any doubt, an ambitious man, who is willing to devote himself to the ideal world. It is in fact hard to tell, whether the determination is doing its good in my life, even though it is fully encouraged by different levels of educations, ranging from kindergarten to PhD program. Admittedly, determination can teach you quite a lot. With its help, you can learn more, read more and publish more as well as better off. However, over devoting in a specific work, a direct definition of determination, can also ask for your payment. What would you pay for that? It is, under most occasions, love!

  2. Can nature be contradicted?

    Young man, if you are considering of rejecting a piece of love, and meanwhile, you are lucky enough reading this post, I would try to persuade you of accepting it. Rejecting such staff can be much more difficult than anything else, especially when it contradicts your psychological indication. I started to think about taking my PhD study overseas from the second year, when participating my first-time international conference and talked to some faculties there, though at that time, I was still quite unaware of what I was willing to do and what I was interested in. I am always quite a man that considers reality as fully prioritized, and never believe in romance. For me, any romance that was built on the assumption that one party is willing to go overseas can be tricky and thus lead to unpleasant consequence. It is this good belief, though I cannot tell whether it is good or not indeed, helped me delayed the love.

    But things are always holding the preference of contradiction. Just count how many unexpected issues has you been come across? Tens? Hundreds? Or even more?  Though rejection is apparently a preferred answer following my logics that I discussed above, it failed on the determination from the other party. It is the first time that I learned that as an ordinary man, I should never expect controlling too much. Being over confident on your controlling, under some occasions, can cause disaster. If I would be able to make a new choice for all these I have experienced, I would give it up. Taking it can, undoubtedly, bring you good feeling for those honey days. It can, however, make you good depression when reaching its end of life.

  3. Saying Goodbye

    Saying goodbye with tears, the topic of this article, indicates the ending of this experience, that used to bring me days with sunshine, is now sounds like thunder and storm. Establish any promise in this period, though seems pleasant, is actually meaningless. For people that you are, or used to love, pray for her honey in future. Staying together or not, comparing to this fundamental assumption, is far less concrete.

    So guess the hidden head for this post? Well, you are quite right. It is not a post for you, but for someone else. Any other hidden head? Yeah, you are quite patient and cautious. This paper is written by a man whose native language is not English!

The Result of SYSU PhD Entrance Exams Reveals

Eventually the entry line for the PhD program of Sun Yat-sen University has been revealed today with 2 days earlier than its estimation, as is published on the web. Thanks to the suggestions from Jianguo, a younger student following my professor, otherwise I shall miss this notice, but as foolish as waiting for the result until 22nd. The result is acceptable, that I am able to participate the second run of the exams, though whether I shall be admitted is still of mystery.

The score, unlikely the line published today, has been known much earlier. Though the score seems to be not that bad, there is no certain information on whether this is adequate. That’s why I didn’t push the score out directly when I got that two weeks, but only announcing it on my twitter with quite limited audience. The line published today, however, proves my concern. As I anticipated earlier, the sub-lines for each score, including the test of English language and two professional courses, should be around 50-55, with the basis of 100 points in total. While the formal version, on the other hand, requires a high score on both English and professional courses. For the majors in management school, including mine, want a score no lower than 55 for English and 60 for the rest courses.

Following is a picture of my result. To protect the privacy, both my name and ID number are covered. I don’t know if it is the fortune that I achieved the score that is, instead of much higher than, just equivalent to the requirement. it reminds me of the occurrence 3 years ago when I was still a student of Nanjing Normal University, waiting for the information from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, my present school, the result of postgraduate entrances. Now both my mood and situation are surprisingly similar. The only difference is that I am not that young any more, and I start to consider more.

Now that the result for the first run is acceptable, I don’t know how it would be for my second run. Interview with professors want higher requirement of knowledge that I master, and better understanding of research, both classical and contemporary ones. For the next two weeks, I shall take a review of recent research in China, focusing on the works produced by the faculties in SYSU, but also including some important works from others. It would be a great job, and what I am still under consideration is that, whether I shall read some classical papers, like Coase (1938, 1950), Alchian (1957), Jesnsen and Meckling (1976, 1985) etc. They definitely formed the foundation of contemporary research, especially those on corporate finance.

I don’t think much can be done in two weeks. I suppose the only thing to do for me is to build up sufficient confidence, and take as much preparation as possible. Guys, wish me succeed!

PhD Entrance Exams at SYSU: A Conclusion

The PhD entrance exams for Sun Yat-sen University have eventually been accomplished, no matter how the result would be. The questions appeared on the subject of corporate are a bit easier, but due to a long trip from Guangzhou to Suzhou, I have mostly forgotten them. But there is one lesson that you should take if you are to be a player of such exams in 2011 or later. That is, paying adequate attention on econometrics, not only its usage, but also its fundamental knowledge.

The questions that I came across at the exams of accounting theory may indicate its potential failure. The questions this year are focusing much on auditing and financial accounting. Unlike the questions that you can find in previous years, the questions this year are focusing more on policies, accounting standard settings, and, most of them are following the framework of narrative research, rather than the positive ones which are of great popularity recently.

Anyway, quite a number of questions are focusing on academic thoughts, which are highly regarded by both professors and graduate students nowadays, especially those working in top universities of China. Take an analytical question in finance for example. A paragraph is presented, which is introducing a new policy published in 2008, that mostly listed firms in China are required to announce the details of their dividend plans. The question is that you are invited to make a brief analysis on why it comes out, its influence of capital markets, as well as the potential research opportunity it may involve. Such questions would, undoubtedly, a disaster to those who are not accustomed to develop their independent thinking.

However, there is one thing that would be beneficial for most takers of the exams, no matter whether they are admitted eventually or not. The lesson is that the questions showed us the correct way that a researcher should probably work like. Focusing and take a good think on the important events on the capital markets should be a good way to find research opportunities, as is shown on the exam paper. Trying to use the existing theory and research to explain, or predict what is happening and is to happen, though not that correct and accurate, would be beneficial for you to know the way of academic considerations. Once the resource of research is ensured, and the academic thoughts are formed, doing some top-level researches would not be far except for some professional training on methodology and tools.

There has been a debate in the academic world, especially in the field of economics and something related that intuition or methodology, which is more important? In my opinion, neither should be abandoned. So also pay sufficient attention on econometrics. What you want to know is not only how to read the result appeared on the computer screen, but the concept of them, like the way how the estimate produced, the steps that somewhat test aligned, and what their potential assumptions are likely to be. If you are still feeling frightened of reading a textbook with mathematics, try to get used to that from today!

I don’t know how my exams would be. In fact, a summary of the exams has been required for my potential supervisor, and I am concerning how to make it with sufficient objectivity and unbiased. Anyway, I do learn a lot from this process.

PS: It is unlikely to make a revision before you take the PhD entrance exams at SYSU, especially in the field of accounting. What you have learned and mastered during the daily research would work!

PhD Entrance Exams at SYSU: Accounting

今天考完了第一天的考试。说实话,中山大学真的很漂亮,绿化做得很好。北门外的珠江也很漂亮。不过广州这两天的天气实在是不好。非常的潮湿。尽管对于一个像我这样在南方生活了二十多年的土著而言,此种潮湿天气并不是什么大问题,但是还是让我些许不爽。不过相比较武汉而言,广州让我最喜欢的一点是这里的吃食非常好,非常符合我的口味。我现在终于知道我老板和我姐都会抱怨广州的菜没有味道了。哈哈。

早上的英语考试,说实话没有太强的感觉。毕竟最近英语看得比较多,以至于看到考卷都没有了感觉。但是这种感觉也绝对不是好事儿,因为你会忘记自己是在考试和做题目,然后就会不知不觉的看得飞快,以至于我在不到一个小时时间里就搞定了除了作文外的所有题目,但是正确率却不敢保证。以至于后来的作文我磨磨蹭蹭的写了一个来小时,写了400来个字,才算对得起重大给的我三个小时的考试时间了。总体来说,英语考试不算太难,应该比考研英语略容易。不过考场上还是有不少同志没有做完的。

下午的会计理论考试才是真的郁闷了。这个题目跟往年相比,差异巨大。我以为中大向来不入俗套,没想到他今年也狠狠“低俗”了一把,没办法,哥们认栽。考虑到有很多人会跟我一样在网上搜索历年考题,我就在这里贴出来,供明年的小弟弟小妹妹们参考吧。

  1. 简答

    1. 就“系统免疫”论谈谈你的看法
    2. IASB的报告体系的逻辑关系,会给你一张图
    3. 金融工具准则的“顺周期效应”,谈谈看法
    4. 市净率和市盈率分别是什么?他们提供怎么样的信息?
  2. 两个讨论题

    1. 2008-2009年度中国资本市场重大事件列出并写出研究机会、
    2. 写审计质量的文献综述。
  3. 研究设计题

      关于薪酬计划的一篇英文论文的第一部分,要求提假设、研究问题、研究设计和其余部分是什么,可用英文作答 这篇论文晚上搜索到了,居然是陈冬华的大作。对了,这个题目是可以用英文作答的。只是不知道用英文会加分不?
      有兴趣的http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1464015

结论:中山大学的题目的确不好准备。要考好,或者自己有关系事先弄到题目(这个不是没可能~),或者够牛(如此牛何必留在中大?),再或者,跟我一样,泰然处之!

PS:中大风景美,人更美!

Career and Romance: A Puzzle?

Romance It can hardly be denied that romance is a strange thing. Unlike the regular events that can easily be controlled in certain routines, the romance can hardly be controlled rationally. More likely, the development of the process for a couple falling in love seems to be a random walk, no matter you are originally determined or not. One may not be able to fully understand this unless you own the experience. It is a kind of experience that involves true loving, demands and even sex, any tiny error made in such process can mean influencing consequence in future. And, under most occasions, it is highly related to the career, another key aspect of human lives.

Loving stories can be easily found in some journals and newspaper when you pick up one randomly in a school library. The stories are frequently similar though figures in the stories vary. The conflict between the career and the romance is typically a permanent topic. For comedy, the couples get recognized occasionally and work together for future, like housing, business, etc. The ending of such story is always quite pleasant and sometimes romantic, that both romance and career are of harvest. While for such topics, tragedy is more common to see.  Such story often starts from a couple being like peas and carrots, and then face a single choice for romance and career. Then difference value concept between the man and ladies are exhibited: career is often preferred by the men and romance by the ladies.

In fact, the latter style of choice is more common to see, which is regarded as reconciling. For any parties that are participated in a game called romance, you can hardly expect great outcome without sufficient income, which, in this game, is regarded as a sacrifice in either romance or career. Unlike many other choices that the alternative choice can easily be explained for deny, this choice is a puzzle, because preference to any party in this choice for romance/career are both adequately rational. For preference on romance, it is comprehensive, since the pleasant experience rendered from this can hardly be substituted, and meanwhile, it is a necessarily preliminary step for coming marriage, which is of great demands for majority. In other hand, preference on career is also a wise choice. Career can mean individual success in numerous realms of life, like great profit from running a business, obtaining a demanded position etc. Considering the traditional responsibility for a man that should support the whole families, including the parents, wife and offspring, the success on career is one of the most effective resolution for such purpose. That’s why majority of men are holding their preference towards the career.

Such choice can be more difficult for graduates, no matter you are graduating from a college or graduate school.  Difference on cities that a couple works and residents can directly lead to failure of their romance. Comparing to the virtual basis on their romance, which is typical nominated as love, the survival is more essential. The romance can only come into practice when the survival is not a question anymore, which is regarded as grounded. Never try to believe in your determination. Such determination is only valid when the environmental settings are unchanged, which is and is only an assumption. Under most occasions, we have taking too much time and energy to fit for such changes, thus career and romance can hardly be taken into account simultaneously.

And making such decision is not an easy job. A preliminary and necessary step for a decision-maker is to think over. Such rule is consistent to the choice on career and romance as well. For a person who is of great preference on career, his/her romance would be regarded as a kind of sacrifice, or say opportunity cost in economic terms, or vice versa. To make it, everyone must be aware of his advantages and disadvantages, which kind of living they are willing to lead to, and basically, a full perspective of the near future.

I don’t know who such choice would be like in a US setting, but the framework for both understanding and interpreting in this post is of Asia styles. Wise and correct choices are typically regarded as precious, especially one of such importance that fully decides his/her future life. An optimized contract for both career and romance would be fully appreciated. But meanwhile, whether such solution exists is still under questions!

Long-term Decision V.S.Shrt-seeing actions: from a TV Show

最近因为事情太多,总是变得无比烦闷和暴躁。似乎一瞬间,自己什么都不是了,自己什么都不会做了。过去的两年的研究生也白读了,以前做的研究现在看来也是错误百出,非常幼稚。然而,看了今天听听给我推荐的《一代大商孟洛川》。我突然似乎了解到了一些东西。该剧情节跌宕起伏,很有励志的效果。但是,与《大宅门》,《乔家大院》等类似题材的电视剧相比,我个人认为,此剧最出彩的地方,恰恰就是在本剧一开始主人公的恩师的一番教诲。

这番教诲初次听来似乎有些老调重弹,尽管我们无法准确回忆这些语句究竟出自于哪里。但是,让我越来越信服的是,当你有了一些相关的阅历以后,你才能更好地去理解经典。其实在很多时候,我们就是那些在学术场傻上追逐三分利的小商小贩,却不会真正的去全局的、发展的眼光去看问题。此类说法似乎永久性被我们定格在了思想道德课本或者政治课本上。不得不说,这是一种很可悲的失败。举一个学术上的例子就可以说明。会计学和财务学界的论文似乎永远都在微观层面上转悠。我们讨论的话题永远就是公司是否盈利,股票是否可以顺利买卖,似乎没有人考虑过个别公司的逐利是否会对征稿个社会的福利造成影响。而传统的经济学研究中,福利分析是很重要的。很难想象一票经济学研究不去考虑福利问题。用一个不恰当的比喻,我们是在像销商人一样在做研究,却没有大商人的研究和气魄。或许,这是我们需要注意的吧。

而另一项让我感慨的则是关于“给予”的探讨。其实这是上一段讨论的一个范例。之所以单列出来,是因为我觉得这个更直接理解,而且也是更有用的。而能否做到“给予”则是一门非常大的学问。更多的,这个问题可以推广到很多社会问题。比如我们的拆迁问题。我们的政府什么时候会真正像大国一样为民牟利呢?其实这就是一种给予问题。当政府给予了拆迁户一些恩惠时候,拆迁办就会更得人心从而提高效率;在大学里,行政人员和教授的关系总是不好。这似乎成了一条国内通用潜规则。究其原因,也是出在了“给予”上。同样,公交车让座问题等都可以纳入。这让我想到了一句数学家的名言,最简单的方程式有时候是最不好解释的。

最后要提到的一句话,则是来自主人公的母亲——“今天失败到了这个地步,你只有两个选择。要么就从这里给我滚下去,要么就像一个男人一样站起来。”。事实上,我们现在总是面对各种压力,升学,工作,人际关系,信任危机,甚至于我们最不愿意被提起的潜规则。但是这些问题是我们能改变的么?不是的,我们只能去适应。所以,我们不要杞人忧天,我们要尽可呢想清楚我们可以预见的。后悔是数学没学好的典型表现。试想,一个连先验概率和后验概率都不俄区分的人,显然不会学好贝叶斯模型,更不可能学好数学了。

最后用一句话结束我的博文:君子坦荡荡!

Snow in November: The Miracle of Weather

昨晚的天气预报和寒流警告终于没有再次验证湖北天气预报的不准确性。今天早上起床就看到了对面房顶的白雪。中午出门吃饭,看到的都是羽绒服和围脖,俨然一副冬季恋歌里面的情景,使我不得不怀疑我现在是否真的生活在十一月的武汉。QQ面板上的天气预报显示,未来几天的最低温度已经到了0度以下。大量的事实告诉我们,冬天来了。

这里上几张在阳台上拍到的照片,我实在没兴趣冒着大雪在校园里拍雪景。这是早上的情景

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而中午时分,雪比较大,绿色的树叶也都披上了白色的“羽绒服”。

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如果还不过瘾,我们再来看看房顶吧,我站在门口拍的,上面都是瓷砖,有对自己溜冰技术过硬的哥们姐们可以试下,机会来了。

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这张照片可以看到雪花,不过不清晰。有哪位高手有经验的话,可以传授下怎么打雪花。

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这场雪真的很难得,也很奇怪,特此写一篇日志以作纪念。

Wanhua Scholarship: A Dialogue to the Idiots

idiot 昨晚看到了研究生部关于今年奖学金评定的公示,首先恭喜我自己取得了一等奖学金的好成绩。同时也恭喜我自己成功被刷,而与万华奖学金失之交臂。之所以说要恭喜这个失败,是因为它让我丢掉了对于这个学校的最后一点怜悯和爱戴。同时也可以提醒打算考中南财大博士的朋友们,这里的会计学专业固然是国家重点学科,学院的作风也很好,但是你也需要同时面对不学无术的行政部门。难道这个不该恭喜么?

非常感谢潘老师的辛勤工作,她帮我打通了研究生部的关系,才让我真正了解到了被刷的理由。试想在一个官僚横行的部门,如果我主动去联系的话,估计是什么结果都不会有的了。理由很简单,是因为论文作者排序的问题。固然,作者排序是一个很严肃的话题,因为他代表了你在某一项科研中所作的贡献。而这种贡献也是非常难衡量的,不仅仅是指论文写作和修改,事实上,这往往是最低贡献。更多的贡献则来自于论文的构思,模型设计,计算机程序设计等等。当然了,作为研究生,我们的作者排名还包括了一些非智力因素。不过事情很凑巧,前晚我刚在网上读到华裔科学家杨振宁和李政道因为论文作者排名而最终分道扬镳,没想到,我一个小小的研究生居然也有幸遇到了如此“高级”的滑铁卢。此等幸运,实在是需要举杯庆贺。

但是,作为一名受过基础训练的科研人员都会知道,论文作者排序仅仅是第一步,而且就国际文献上来看,其实很多文章作者都会按照作者的姓名首字母来排序。这就是为了防止论文作者之间的冲突,毕竟在一个实验室里,谁也说不好谁的贡献更大。当然了,作为某一个题目的发起者,他可能会被冠以通讯作者(Corresponding Author)。更重要的我们需要来考虑文章本身。考虑到本博客的部分读者可能并不在科研行业,故下面简单列示,就当科普了。

  • 期刊级别。这是我们一般国内目前比较流行的参考因素。其实原因也在于很多负责科研考核的干部并不懂科研,这是一个最简单的策略。就国内期刊而言,往往我们会分为一般期刊,核心期刊和权威期刊。而核心期刊其实有两个版本,一个是北大核心,相对包括的期刊更多,但是垃圾期刊也多,所以很多期刊也都失去了核心的意义。另一种则是南京大学的CSSCI,这个标准相对严格。但是也区分扩展版和标准版。一般公认不认可扩展版。而至于国外,诸位可以自行Google,主要有汤姆森公司的SSCI,JEL的EconLit等等。
  • 更进一步的,则是期刊的影响因子。影响因子的说法最早应该来源于汤姆森公司的SCI,其中会通过对期刊的引用情况进行计算,从而得到一个量化指标,来衡量某些期刊在专业人员心中的地位。但是国内似乎有很少的学校会采用这样的指标来细化分析。同时,我很怀疑我们学校的研究生部的领导是否听过这个东西。
  • 最重要的,则是个别论文的正向引用率。这个指标对我们研究生似乎没有太大意义,而更多的对一些教授副教授而言,这更有价值。因为这个直接可以反映一篇文章对一个领域或者一个专题的研究所造成的影响。如果有兴趣,大家可以去查下Williamson,Alchian,Coase等人的文章,你会发现,它们的引用率是惊人的,尽管可能他们某些文章所发的期刊级别并不高。

但是很可悲的是,我们尊敬的领导居然并不认可论文的级别。对于能遇到这样的具有渊博学识的领导,我真是感到非常荣幸。

不过既然结果已然如此,我想我就不用再多说什么了,这样的学术环境难免会让一个美国毕业的博士从11楼飞身而下了。

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Mobile Phone Service: When Monopoly Meets Economy

chinamobileWith the development on both economics and technology that the cell phones are becoming daily communicating tools for both college students and people nowadays in China. But for college students like us, with quite limited financial competence, and can afford not much payment on such service, special packages that can significantly reduce such cost are quite welcome. But due to its monopoly position, the service fee is still quite high in some regions, especially some undeveloped regions like Hubei that can even contradict with the local living cost level. Here what I mentioned in following text are of the service from China Mobile, the largest service provider on wireless connection in China.

Apparently, the pricing of the cell phone in China has been reduced significantly. Still remember the first time that I get my first cell phone from my daddy, when we preferred to send short messages with each other, without any call due to the high cost and dual-paying policy. That is, you are entitled to pay no matter whether you are making a call or just receiving one from others.

Then it comes to 2005 when I went to Nanjing for my continuing study in Ginlin College, NJNU, where the receiving fee were waived for a limitation on time for 500 minutes under a special package for college students. It is the most cost-effective package that I met even till now. We can make a local call with the rate of 0.2 yuan/min and 0.3 yuan/min for a long distance call in China. And as an important content within this 20-yuan package, we were entitled for 400 free messages no matter who the receiver is, and whether he is the customer of China Mobile or not.

Then in 2007, I came to Wuhan for my master’s degree in ZNUFE, where I suffered the expensive cell phone service. According to my previous experience, I firstly selected the “M-Zone”, a special package designed for college students. But soon I found great problem:

  • High Rate. Comparing to the similar service that I have used in Nanjing, the rate for local call here is 0.25 yuan/min, and there is no discount rate for long distance call. It is quite common to see students using IC cards to make a call at a public telephone, but such sight has been eliminated in Nanjing;
  • Limitation on Short Message. Comparing to the package in Nanjing, the price here is cheaper, with 15 yuan /month, including 200 short messages, but be careful! A MESSAGE TO THE CUSTOMERS THAT ARE NOT SIGHED WITH CHINA MOBILE IS NOT INCLUDED!
  • Forbidden on Roaming. This service is only available for 5 months a year, for two important vacations, summer and winter. If you are willing to travel to other places other from vacations, you are suggested to transfer your package. It is quite an incomprehensive decision.

Taking a sight on the economy development data such as CPI and GDP, you will find Hubei is owning quite limited economic conditions, which, reasonably interpreted, means a lower consuming level comparing to the regions of Shanghai and Jiangsu, where there are offering cheaper packages and the average cost on mobile communications. I don’t know why such thing can happen, but I suppose the only explanation as monopoly.

Happy Teacher’s Day: A Belated Wish

It has been approximately 20 years since my first step into the kindergarten as a young student, and many teachers have come and go, who taught me piles of knowledge, ranging from elementary ABCs to advanced skills, from fundamentally ethical principles to professional trainings. It is the teachers that bring me to my present situation. Thanks for their kindness and hard-working. Wish they happy Teacher’s Day!

Some teachers in my primary school, among the ones that taught me, changed my life greatly. The first one is an old math teacher, Mr.Zhou, who was the headmaster of my primary school. It is him that draw me the interest on mathematics. It is the old time when the Olympic Contest on Mathematics are still for interesting and involves no commence, which differs from that of today. I did participate some contests but gained nothing. The only thing i get is the experience on exams. I don’t know why there are so many parents and children are mad to this contest, and spending great money on that. In my opinion, mathematics can, and only can be depended on interest, but not on training. 

And, Ms Luo and Mr.Xu, my headteacher in primary school, also bring me great influence on my education. Unlike who I am today that seems to be more bright, I was only a shamed boy in primary school that don’t speak much to others. Mr.Xu paid much attention on my diet and study during her spare time, and, it was her that firstly taught me how to husk the apple. Meanwhile, I got adequate scold as well due to my dishonesty, which follows the nature of the boys. But Mr.Xu apparently taught me on how to be a man, to be encouraged and bright.  But unfortunately I have lost the contact to him.

Mr. Liu, a computer teacher in Children’s Palace of Jinchang Distinct, brought me the very first touch to the computer in 1996, when computer in China is still quite a precious toy. Occasionally I got a recommendation from my primary school that promoted my first education on computer, though the skills that I learned is quite rough, nothing except typing English letters. While it is the typing skills that learned when I was a boy that bring me great convenience today, such as taking online tests of GRE and TOEFL as well as writing papers and programs. Later I got the training on fundamental theories, operating system, word processing and data management from him and obtained my first certificate of computer skills in 1997, when I graduated from primary school. But I can hardly contact to him as well.

In my past study of years, I came across great number of good teachers including my present professor, but it is all these teachers in my primary school changed my life greatly. I appreciate the kindness and honesty of my teachers heartedly. As a final of this post, wish all the teachers, no matter if you are mine or not, a happy Teachers’ Day!

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