Being Boring I'll find my soul as I go home

More meta thoughts

Call me silly, but I am surprised that project management is basically the same thing as software engineering which I learned back in college. It is so far the most boring course I've ever taken. It's all about methodology to gradually achieve a massive software development project. You can take either the spiral or waterfall [...]

learning: a meta analysis

I am a click-and-get-it person, meaning that I only need to get the big picture and key concept to understand a huge complicated matter. But I always feel that I have never got my learning methodology quite right. Something, some key point is lacking here. It holds me back all these years as a student [...]

计算器

我好喜欢俺妈给我的HP12C的计算器啊啊啊啊. 我可真是geeky得可以了, 来回来去把说明书读了n遍, 握拳! 不过我还是没有我从前的同学牛, 她是香港计算器协会会长呢, 现在才能理解为啥她那么迷这个东西.
另外3 1 +而不是3+1这种RPN计算式我一直以为是数据结构老师拿来刁难我们的呢, 原来真的有计算器这样啊, 恍然大悟ing

cfa learning guideline

Objectives which are called Learning Outcome Statements by cfa are the study goals for 18 study session
1. suggestions on how to read the objectives

2. combined objectives for 18 sessions
individual objectives for each session
4. tips on taking the exam, esp the mc questions
exam overview, check out the L1 studyroom with lots of links

cfa

俺报名明年6月的level 1 CFA啦, 990美元贵死, 我还是向我妈贷款6个月分期还. 这考试是美国人给金融研究生的, 3个level一般需要至少3年考完, 最后还需要4年的在投资方面的工作经验才能拿到, 我投入巨大啊
考试2个3小时的sessions, 240道单选, 平均90秒一道. 包含以下内容
Area Weights

Topic Area
Level I
Level II
Level III

Ethical and Professional Standards (total)
15
10
10

Quantitative Methods
12
5-10
0

Economics
10
5-10
0

Financial Reporting and Analysis
20
15-25
0

Corporate Finance
8
5-15
0

Investment Tools (total)
50
30-60
0

Equity Investments
10
20-30
5-15

Fixed Income
12
5-15
10-20

Derivatives
5
5-15
5-15

Alternative Investments
3
5-15
5-15

Asset Classes (total)
30
35-75
35-45

Portfolio Management and Wealth Planning (total)
5
5-15
45-55

Total
100
100
100

The Level I study program emphasizes tools and inputs and includes an introduction to asset valuation and portfolio management techniques.
看上去不难诶! [...]

A comment

my feeling is, for language, similar to other things, say
research projects,

you have to really get into it, and eventually be at ease
with it. for

reading, i read a lot of english fictions in china very
quickly and probably

very carelessly; it helped for sure but my writing stank
straight way all the

time. it was a few years later that [...]

GRE

count down
for
GRE analytical writing test
I am going to die.
Time until Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 11:00:00 AM (Hong Kong time)

32
days

777
hours

46632
minutes

2797957
seconds

FYP settled

I will continue to work for the same boss, unless I am selected to attend summer internship, which seems less possible. I am coming, Bo Zai hohohohoho....

Some may say protein science is boring, yet I think it is easier to handle than plant/animal things. Last term I did a horrible experiment with frogs in [...]