[心情]完了每天都睡好多

每天都不想起床，每天都賴床到很晚，可是去辦公室的時間都算蠻precise(精確)的。但比起一般上班族的話，卻不夠accurate(準確)，大概平均會晚2.5個小時(囧)。
定義precise & accurate：以打靶舉例。
precise --> 打靶都打在同一個位置，但不一定在紅心上。
accurate --> 打靶都有打到紅心上。

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[心情]挫折是努力的動力

沒想到，原來我是被挫折motivated。
最近得知很多挫折的on campus interview結果，要好好努力找工作。
最後寫上今天聽到的兩句話：
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you want."
"Chance favors the prepared mind." --Louis Pasteur

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[AWG]Unit One: An Approach to Academic Writing

Book: Academic writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills (2nd), SWALES and FEAK.
Writing tasks need to be written "academically."
(1). Audience
Understand your audience's expectations and prior knowledge.
(2). Purpose and Strategy
Display familiarity, expertise, and intelligence.
(3). Organization
Ways of organizing information: (a) problem-solution structure; (b) comparison-contrast; (c) cause-effect; (d) classification.
(4). Style
1. Use single verb instead of prepositional verb (verb + preposition).
Ex: brought by --> caused; looking into --> investigating; figure out --> determine; come up with --> developed; make up --> constitute; get rid of --> eliminate; gone up --> reached; keep up --> maintain.
2. Avoid contractions. Ex: won't --> will not.
3. Limit the use of "run-on" expressions. Ex: , etc. --> , and other devices.
4. Place adverbs within the verb, not at the beginning or end of sentences.
5. Consider whether you should split infinitives (p.23-24).
(5). Flow
1. Linking words and phrases can help a writer maintain flow and establish clear relationships between ideas (p.27, Table 1 for Linking words and phrases).
2. Use this/these + summary word. Ex: Nowadays, laptop computers are lighter, more powerful, and easier to use than they were five years ago. These improvements have led to an increases in the sales of these machines.Use "it" to refer to the subject, and "this" to the entire idea.
(6). Presentation
Check the spelling and homophone.

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[心情]呼

昨天超慘的，羽毛球被慘電(真的是很沮喪的，噗)，還收到老師的信說我英文寫作退步了(更沮喪，呼)，真是雪上加霜，很難過(還好有去大吃大喝，沒想到又肚子痛...)，所以今天要振作了，要跟writing center當好朋友，還要每個星期日都不偷懶地去好好練球(囧，之前都偷懶)。
加油，小白。

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[心情]Python

受到The Social Network裡Mark的啓發，我突然對寫程式又興起了興趣，所以開始學Python(免費軟體)，剛開始使用，覺得程式語言很像Matlab，但是看久了，我就很想睡覺XDDDDD
果然學寫程式也像學鋼琴一樣，必須每天練習，Step by step，才會進步。

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