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可怕的生化课内容

najja — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:09:48 +0000

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (就是搞 ExPASy 那个)把所有metabolic pathway(这个是叫途径?)弄了大图. 众生物/化专业的去围观啊!

俺觉得即使是 Lehninger , 还有续写的 Nelson 和 Cox , 也不可能把这些全都记在心里吧.

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某女要考试了

najja — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:37:20 +0000

所以要全面消失2周，一定要过！一定要过！一定要过！We are the best!

人生的意义

najja — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:44:16 +0000

昨天晚上我灵机一动，想出了俺活在这个世界上的意义。记得小时候被传教的同学们逼问人生的意义，我不得不想了一个“人活着就是改造世界让它变得更好”的理由打发人家。不过作为一个曾经比较文艺还爱好过哲学的人，我觉得知道自己为何而活还是有必要的。好吧，我的人生意义就在两个时刻：

1 看到有趣的东西feel inspired时
2 好不容易完成一个大项目feel accomplished时

Inspiration和accomplishment就是我人生的目标，握拳。当然从生物的角度，star trek的“live long and prosper”才是王道，不过这只适用与一个家族或者种群，要是个人用这个作为人生意义，好像有点种马的嫌疑。

我正在苦读CFA L2中。哎，又在临时抱佛脚了！我这一辈子注定要和自己容易厌倦的秉性和爱拖拉的毛病做殊死搏斗，并且要在表面上塑造我稳重可依靠的形象。以后我有孩子了一定教育ta要适应delayed gratification而不是instant satisfaction。

要是我可以选择的话，下辈子我要做只熊猫，天天睡觉！

首页改版

najja — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:39:00 +0000

najja.org域名的首页改成dokuwiki，blog挪到blog.najja.org，rss依然使用feedsky的。

[update:哭，不仅被dreamhost踢出来了，俺的域名提供商godaddy还被封了，这下我也不能把www.najja.org指向这个blog了，真无奈]

另外俺打算考gmat读business school，可是还没想好读啥子学位。请大家帮俺参谋下哈。俺经验不足，恐怕没到读mba的时候。囧。详情请移步这里。

gender and education

najja — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:22:37 +0000

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=11449804 Classical nature VS nurture debate. But I strongly disagree that girls have a absolute edge over boys if treated equal. Equality is a complicated matter. Traditionally people thinks girls SHOULD be inferior in math this discrimination against girls causes them to do worse accordingly. The same occurs to boys: they are taught to ignore literature etc and shun it as girly stuff. So girls are not born with comparative advantage. It's all nurture, really.

final date

najja — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:22:02 +0000

(this silly editor by ycool doesn't supported firefox 3 beta 5 yet, so I am forced to use plain text in this entry) The date for CFA exam is drawing near, yet I am ill prepared. To cram in study material as much as possible in the last month, I revise my study system as following: 1. Focus on problem set. Solve all the problems on both textbook and notes. 2. (the key to my system) Type in the number of the question to Anki (http://ichi2.net/anki/) 3. Review them the questions daily at home and office because anki will automatically synchronize. Simple as that! It is the beauty of Spaced Repetition algorithm ( http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak?currentPage=all ). The reason that I only type in the number is that the problems often involve a fair amount of equations. While anki has integrated latex, entering equation is far too laborious to do.

啊亲耐的母校!

najja — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:16:36 +0000

orz...这不是食堂么? 食堂面前搞个啥门阿?

本报讯　北京师范大学附属实验中学近日复建起90年前的老校门。昨天，记者来到位于西城区辟才胡同80号的北京师范大学附属实验中学，一座高8.9米的灰色中西结合风格的门楼建筑显得格外醒目，这就是北师大附属实验中学，即原“国立北平师范大学附属女子中学”的老校门。

北师大实验中学校长袁爱俊表示，重建老校门是为了让师生通过追溯学校90年的历史，延续学校“勤肃信毅”的办学精神。据介绍，学校有关人员是根据仅存的一张图片资料进行的原比例仿真制作，全部都用青砖雕刻完成。

Thinking about PhD degree

najja — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:12:08 +0000

A few circumstances make me thinking about PhD education recently, specifically PhD in science (it's all i know). I am always described as having an ideal character for research. Horrific misunderstanding! Yes I am extremely focused, but the focus only lasts for six months at best and I quickly shift the interest to another thing. Besides (experimental) research is very, very painful. When one starts, one usually have a ambitious goal in mind, but 999 out 1000 will be tremendously disappointed when one see the result of experiments. They are SOOOOO unpredictable! One end up repeating one simple experiment over and over and over and over to check what is wrong. Soul-destroying. So I'd say that in a field of experimental science, don't go for a PhD unless you are 100% sure it is EXACTlY what you want to do FOR A LIFETIME, otherwise you'll be miserable.

But people elder and more experienced than me have a different view. They see the degree as a title. A doctorate title is not only food for vanity but more importantly it earns respect, especially for girls. Let's face it: girls is susceptible to inexplicit discrimination in business world, in china and elsewhere. Common perception is that you are a girl so you are good at doing something that boys will think too trivial to handle. It's annoying as hell since I am more boyish than boys in this matter. And I am not good in things girls usually excel at, e.g. language, communications etc. Plus the disvantage of pregnancy will cause trouble in late 20s too. Again plus the hurdles that will prevent one to rise further once one hits a medium executive position. I really don't know. I guess being a PhD will at least prevent them treating one as a secretry, but the latter two?

Presentation

najja — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:10:47 +0000

I find out that to do better in giving presentation, I must do some trick with my voice. Usually I am quite nervous in presentation, worse still, my body language and trembling voice give me away completely. To avoid that, I now start to fake my voice as much as possible in presentation. My voice is naturely childish-sounding. What I want to achieve is to make it as reserved as possible which not only make it a little adult-like but also make me less nervous by providing a layer between my true self and outside. I have developed a weird sensation when I am giving presentation: it is as if I am floating in the room, looking at myself giving speech and totally indifferent about it. No, I think, it is not the real me there talking, the true me is just daydreaming. Totally weird! But I say considering from the feedback, my body double is better in presentation than the true one.

language learning

najja — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:03:07 +0000

I have just arrived at a revelation: the key in learning a language is to "pretend" you have never had any experience in any language. By putting yourself into a "newborn baby" state, you will absorb things like sponge. By doing this, You can avoid the common missteps of translating back forward between languages to learn and native language. Try to speak and think in that new language. You will probably get it wrong the first time around, but the correct way will stick with u much longer. Subtle point. But I bet it IS the key.