Plain but Colorful: A Summary of 2009

image No one can deny the process of time processing, for which, the individuals like us, can only obey this regulation. Time pass smoothly no matter whether you are successful or not, no matter whether you are taking adequate care on it, and no matter whether you are young or old, boy or girl. Following my traditions, I would like to take a summary of my past year at last day. Taking a scan on the summary of mine in 2008 and 2007, I find, my 2009 is quite plain,there is nothing impressive to note, and honor to share with, except for something unpleasant.

The GRE, both the preparation and the two attempts,forms up the the mainstream of my life this year. Admittedly, GRE is the most difficult exams for the students in China because of two reasons. The first reason is that you are required to memorize and understand over 20k words. My first failure in this step is that I failed to make an in-depth understanding of the words, but only try to memorize them.  But the problem is that without good understanding on the real meaning, you can hardly find the potential relationship between the words and hence you fail. Anyway, my writing skills is greatly improved during this preparing process. I can start to write my own formal English. Admittedly, without sufficient training on GRE training, I won’t finish my first English manuscript and the research proposal.

For academia, there is nothing important as well except for the training program in Shanghai, conducted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Due to the funding from my professor and the arrangements on my research, I didn’t go to any highly ranked academic conference, totally different from what I did in 2008. However, I have to say, not to flatter the faculties of CUHK, their lectures broaden my horizon on my research greatly. From their delivery, I learned the importance of fundamental papers, always those enlightening works that also own great amount of reference. Without sufficient understand on the previous literature, not only for my topic, but also the common backgrounds, I won’t be a qualified scholar and a qualified reader of the papers in top journals.

Though I get the scholarship, and the prize of honored paper from an internal conference, I am not satisfied. For the scholarship, I have experienced too much, much more than it deserved. Though the prize of the honored paper partially convinced myself of the potentials of research, that’s far from enough. I would not repeat all these trivialities. For those readers who are interested in further information, please refer to relevant posts.

The perspective of my 2010 is quite simple, just two English words-Go Smoothly!

At the end of my summary, I shall acknowledge the thanks to numerous people that have helped me in various realms. Some of these friends are Kuan Song, Prof. Wang Xiongyuan, Prof. Xu JIalin, Prof. Shirley J. Daniel, Zhang Peng, You Tingting, Guan Kaolei, Tang Jianxia, Zhuang Chunfang, Chen Wenna.  Fundamentally,I shall express my thanks heartedly to my mama, papa, and the gone grandma. I wish and would keep appreciating your kindness in the coming 2010.

A Special Birthday: Academia and Entertainment

Christmas Birthday Stickers from Zazzle.co https://blog.gujun-sky.com估计傻瓜都知道工作是工作,娱乐是娱乐,两者不可混为一谈。否则会一事无成。但是呢,在今年的圣诞节,也就是本人的生日之日,这两者却似乎找到了一个不错的交点。在这美妙的一天里,我同时完成了学术任务和娱乐任务。可谓工作与生活兼顾。不过说实话,我也累得够呛。这个故事还得从三天前的一个电话说起。那天晚上,哥们正在忙着拜读新买的《四书集注》,正在为《大学》开篇中的“齐家治国天下平”而激动不已,心情澎湃,却忽然接到研究生部的通知说要参加今天的第二届会计学院研究生学术研究研讨会,并作大会报告。一开始也没有觉得什么,毕竟咱也是久经沙场的人嘛。但是师弟的下半句却让我心慌了很久。因为他告诉我,我的报告被夹在了两位学术牛人之间,更何况,其中有一位还是在下的恩师。这下好了,关公面前耍大刀了。但是呢,我们是社会主义一块砖啊,哪里需要放哪里。于是,在下只有恭敬不如从命。

所谓喝水都能噎死人,阴沟里照样翻船理论,同时援引本人的一贯遭遇,此次演讲注定不会那么顺利。事实再一次验证了统计学的重要性。先不说我只有两天时间来准备PPT和讲稿,光演讲时候的PPT自动往前跑就让我非常郁闷,以至于我今天毫无演讲的性质和激情。脑子里的那些理论,假设都被抛开了。更多的,我一边在讲,一般在小心防备着我的PPT自动往前走(刚测试发现,这可能是03和07的不兼容性的一个Bug,出现于某些特定情况)。同时,这个报告也说明了一个问题,永远不要用中文去报告自己用英文写的论文。那过程绝对是自虐。今天我不得不一边看着PPT,一边把脑子里的英文换成中文再说出来。于是开始了舌头打结,语无伦次。好在,这不是太高级的会议。不过我那敬爱的老板的表情还是让我着实来了一身冷汗。哎,太年轻啊,定力不行。

下午跟着同门好友跑到西苑唱歌去了。你别说,KTV还真是个发泄的好东西。尽管这种事情多少有点损人利己。在给被人带来了极其恐怖的噪音之后,自身的感觉会变得非常轻松。同时,我也跑回去领了个奖。在唐院长最后宣布我名字的时候,那感觉还是非常爽的。上台领奖时候还是很兴奋的。难怪那些影星影帝会在颁奖典礼上语无伦次的感谢什么CCTV,MTV之类的。哎,看来如此感谢,如此言语也都是非条件反射啊。

晚上在南苑吃的,建霞弄来了一个漂亮的蛋糕。如果说蛋糕本身没什么,关键在于情意之类的话,那恐怕有点假。毕竟我还是个好吃的主儿。不过跟同门的师兄师妹们一起过生日的感觉真是不错的,温馨而充实。加上我的4+1(此为张院长原创,4为四位学术牛人,1为在下),我真是在生日这一天找到了学术和娱乐的完美结合点。但是,我绝对不认为这是个帕贝托改进,因为,我实在是太累了。

其实坦言,学术研究的确是需要激励的。我很羡慕学术班的人有如此好的条件。但是呢,也为大多数人的身在福中不知福而感到可惜。当然,人各有志,学术也不是唯一出路。正如我以前所言,在这里,我们选择的学术道路可能是曲折的,甚至是郁闷的,在这样的环境下能够坚持下来是要点道行的。所幸,本人遇到了很好的老板,也得到了比较多的激励。在这些激励下,我现在的成果其实还是比较悲惨的。之所以要感谢老板,原因很简单。有句老话“师父领进门,修行在个人”。但是问题是,如果没有师父领进门,您老难道还打算在门外修行不成?当然,释迦摩尼在菩提树下得道。可是,我们皆凡人。

原本以为今年一年都不会有学术会议上的记录,没想到今天却填上了这一空白。尽管这会级别不高,收益却不低啊。

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