But the weather is so chilling cold outside, my body temperature drops several degrees.
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Watched George Carlin's show yesterday, absolutely awesome. It's called "It's all bad for ya".
Interesting old fuck (he call himself "an old fuck", he explained it in the show. From politics to child raising, he reached out to a lot areas. Good show, should watch some more. I admire stand-ups, for their intelligence and eloquence.
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Also read some guys' blogs, amazed that how someone's can be so annoying while others' leave you a deep thought. Sometimes even regret that why can't I wrote something like that.
But, I am much of a sentimental kind. Saw Xinan Wu's blog the other day, clever man like he is even have people (Kxn, to be specific) to worship. The world is a big place, have lots lots of interesting people, that's why people should explore it.
But learn a few basic things to earn a living is also important. That's why I want to quit lab. As I am almost officially saying goodbye to the academics (the only chance I would still linger on some more is I got admitted by a Ph.D. program, I really don't sounds very enthusiastic about it, am I?). Learn some job-related skills is better for me. Things like algorithms and data structures, Python programming, hack some more Linux/UNIX stuff would be much useful than Semi-supervised machine learning. And coding is fun, reading paper is fun, but not that fun. Actually what's more fun? just to sit there, with a stick (like George Carlin would put it: "Just fucking sit there, with a fucking stick, dig a fucking hole). But it is really hard to say. To my bosses, they just submitted my recommendations, and I just quit? That's not things a responsible dude like me would do. At least, get through this semester. If grxue ask me to go coding at Alibaba, I would happily go there.
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Recently, I just find 60s' and 70's music is so great, that even there are so much of them, they all sound so so good. The Beatles, the stones, the Who, etc etc. Like "the all-time-top-five-job-list" composed by John Cusack in the film High-Fidelity, to be a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine in the 60s would be cool so does a record producer at some major label in the 60s. "Who's Next" and "Velvet Underground and Nico", for particular, are two albums I love recently.
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Speaking of movie, I watched "Fight Club" again. It's just before I finish the original novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The nihilism strike me hard. I feel it, "hit bottom", "it's only when you lost everything that you can do anything". In a strange way, Tyler Durden's philosophy all somehow
are correct in his strange universe. Anyway, the novel is really awesome. I can now say I understand the movie, despite all the crazy acts.
Chuck Palahniuk is another writer to my "things i like" list, besides Truman Capote.
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Back to application. And everything is done. At least at my side. Just waiting now.
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To sum up, I applied 15 schools in total. They are, in the order of my love for them:
Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Washington, Wisconsin, Illinois, Maryland, Brown, UCLA, UPenn, Columbia, USC, Purdue.
Among them, Cornell, Illinois, Washington, Purdue I applied for Ph.D. admission, others for M.S. program.
Enough for today, details next time.
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