Yoshi's Blog

Flickr 上的相片集 03/08/2012 Hershey, Harrisburg 。 前二天到 Hershey, Harrisburg 玩拍的一些照片. 這個地方真的就叫 Hershey, 因為賓州就是 Hershey's 的總公司所在 (一家做巧克力的公司), 坐導覽車時導遊講了很多 Hershey 的歷史, 不過我英文太爛了, 聽不太懂, 似乎就是說這個鎮幾乎都是靠 Hershey 一家人的巧克力工業養活的, 還有開學校, 醫院, 遊樂場 (Hershey Park), 連路燈的燈罩都做成 Hershey's Kisses 的水滴形狀, 城鎮還不小, 在導覽車上導遊講得相當開心, 我聽英文聽得相當痛苦. 逛完 Hershey Town, 我們再開大概四五十分鐘的車, 來到 Harrisburg 比較熱鬧的地方, 有幾座橫跨 Susquehanna River (薩斯奎哈納河) 的橋, 我對這裡的地理也不熟, 查了一下才知道這裡最 well-known 的就是"三哩島核泄漏事故", 或稱"三哩島事件", 是美國核電歷史上最嚴重的一次事故附近...囧

Ten days ago I just got the official notification that my paper submitted to IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI) has been accepted, and one week after, I was notified that my paper Attackboard submitted to the 49th Design Automation Conference (DAC) is also accepted. I am really happy that my efforts in this two years have been encouraged. See you guys in San Francisco.

Flickr 上的相片集 2011/8/4 Dolce Vita 。 Dolce Vita is a dessert restaurant which has many special tasty ice creams. The boss is very friendly to invite us try different flavors. The official homepage of Dolce Vita can be found here: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/myvita

成績公佈了，雖然考得不怎樣，還是分享一下心得好了。我手寫405，聽力365，考完當下就覺得聽力應該會很慘，有幾題甚至是完全聽不懂亂填的。 考試現場是用二個直立的喇叭播CD，我覺得這就是我最大的敗點，我大概準備了一個禮拜，練聽力時都是用耳機聽，幾乎是任何細微的聲音都聽得一清二楚，做練習時聽力大概錯14/100題。現場的喇叭在教室裡播放時會有一點迴音，變得語調重的地方很清楚，但每一個句子的最後會聽不太清楚。所以建議如果有要考的人不要用耳機練習，太甜了。 我是做朗文的書，裡面有四個完整的模擬試題，我自己模擬考做了二個，另外二個就直接一邊聽一邊看解答。ptt上有TOEIC版，有人說我考的那場6/26聽力的題目比以前難一點，手寫比以前簡單，我覺得應該是真的，考的當下我也是這種感覺（和朗文的比起來），文法的不會太難，一題假設法語氣都沒有，聽力很明顯比朗文的快不少 另外就是聽力抱佛腳沒什麼用，短時間內想要突飛猛進有點難，做題目只是熟悉一下題目風格，平時沒練聽力沒什麼路用。沒了。。。心得就這樣，給大家參考

In front of the new library in the campus, there is a new bronze statue who seems thinking. Many students who are about to graduate like to take pictures with this bronze statue. I don't know the name of this statue. Who can tell me? PS: My friend had told me that it is named "The Thinker" , aka " Le Penseur".

Since I need to have an English exam for applying the qualification of being an exchange student, I choose the incoming TOEIC exam to try. I searched some related articles discussing the exam, and many people say that having an mocking exam is very important. It may improves the final score with 100+. I think it is possible since mocking the exam can make tester more familiar with the style of the questions. But currently I don't have a plan to do a mock exam. I already have two English books, one is Longman survey of English grammar, and the other one is Longman English core words. Although they do not directly focus on TOEIC exam, the content of the books is still good to improve the basic English ability. For many daily-using words, I found that my vocabularies are still too few since I only read technical papers in computer science. It is not a good news, especially for those exams on daily-conversation English (i.e., TOEIC). Come on, Yoshi! Spend more time on preparing the...

Before I decided to join the PhD program in my department, I had planned to be an exchange student abroad for broadening my research experience. I wonder how researchers in other countries work. But I am too passive, so now I even haven't ask any professor for a chance to be an exchange student. Now, I have so many tasks to do for preparing the opportunity, such as having an international certified English exam to prove that I have essential language ability. I have only less than ten days to prepare the exam, so I'm a little bit anxious in these days.  The good news is, the official doc does not mention that I need to pass a strict threshold. So what I need to do is do my best. Good luck to me.

The explosion of social network application has changed my life. The two most opened tabs of my browser are Facebook and Plurk (it's similar to Twitter). Sometimes I just refresh the screen to see if there is any update in the pages. I found that I spend too much time on surfing web pages. I try to reduce the time, but it is more difficult than I expected. Since many of my friends use Facebook, and once some pictures with their faces are tagged by others, my Facebook starting page always has 100+ unread messages. It is even impossible to catch up the updating speed of the pages of Facebook. The attacking of huge information confuses me. On one's hand, I like to see many messages from my friends. On the other hand, I don't like the feeling of being pushed by the information. 

因為買了一片B+W MRC HAZE, 所以忍不住去系館後面試看看, 正好操場強烈的燈光可以看看這個鏡片抗耀光的能力, 看起來還不錯啦~