To open a book is always beneficial...
To have a trip always broaden your heart...

It's more than one week since arrived at here. Everything seems to be fine. Didn't meet any difficulties or communication obstacles.

People here are very nice. Even there are many culture differencies, they work together, play togethery in a very wonderful atmosphere. What's more, they are glad to help. Some old grad students came by our orientation and gave us many useful guidances, both in academia and entertainment.

nfortunately, I don't have any courses = =. I plan to have a careful examination to grainger engineering library. This term I selected 4 courses, introduction to data mining, advanced database system and computer system organization, plus a english wrinting course. I'm going to concentrate data management and mining, information retrieval as my research areas, even though have no too many experiences on them before. For a master student, it's a big tradeoff between doing research and improving technical skills. How to strike the balance, that's the question I'm considering these days.... (共 1482 字节)

之前就听说了上海签证的那个人多，所以很早就过去排队了，约的1点面谈，11点到那开始排队，还是惨无人道的排到了2点多才进去……反正就是排个大使馆的队和排个世博的美国馆差不多……

再次说明一下整个签证流程，可能对还没去的同学有点帮助：
1、到梅龙镇广场的3号门排队，排队前不需要做任何事情，如果带包带手机或电子产品的话先到旁边显眼的寄包处寄存，10元一次，这些东西是不允许带进大使馆的
2、排队的童鞋会被一波一波的送入电梯，一波大概10来个人，电梯直达梅龙镇广场8楼大使馆
作人员验证信息，验证完后会还给你... (共 3185 字节)

事情是这样的，4月30号是域名过期的日子，那天我还没有注意，只到5月3号左右才发现博客无法登陆了，自动跳转到了一个广告收集页面 = = ，这个页面的右上角写了“域名到期，请联系服务商”几个字……

QMSN的周旋，终于把这个域名从子代理处转到了代理处并完成续费……... (共 627 字节)

半小时前当我点击UIUC网页里的accept this admission的时候，意味着耗时两年的出国留学计划基本完成，尘埃终于落定，卖给了UIUC……

今晚必定是一个不眠之夜，我不得不在这记录点什么，因为就在半个小时前，我做出了一个很crazy的决定：放弃两个全额奖学金读博士的机会，选择了自费读硕士……

接受……这一辈子我就有这么几年热血澎湃的年龄，不洒些血汗我肯定会后悔……... (共 4973 字节)

今天算是卖出了这辈子的第一个自己写的软件吧，虽然过程中有些波折……小程序员写出的东西终于有人要了，很开心……

卖得很便宜，卖的时候也没打算去赚别人的钱，也就是意思意思，体验一下交易的全过程……

收到钱后立马和团队的兄弟们分赃了……该干啥干啥去……