Keep that in mind

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recent goals.



before Thursday
photogrammetry assignment 1
Remote Sensing report 4
go through Geodesy, Satellite Positioning, Adjustment Computation asap.

Friday
finish GPS data analysis and get the horizontal velocity field of HC peninsula.

this semester
finish the article by the mid April
process InSAR images of HC peninsula by May
attend the competition for undergraduate students research project

summer
prepare for TOEFL
prepare for GRE
start the preparation for grad school
learn more about matlab and gmt

December
AGU

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This is not because you are simply unlucky or just happen to be so busy or something. It's the result of not being responsible for things that should be taking care of by yourself. You knew that you have to finish all these quite a while ago, yet you still leave them untouched till now. That's why you had a terribly depressed night and decided to cancel today's visit to two other companies and a government agency which are all closely related to the field of Geomatics.

I'm writing this down right now to make sure that you will learn something in this incident. You are a junior now and things you dreamed of are getting closer in front of you. It seems great; however, are you really ready for those challenges? So far, I don't think so. Having fun and enjoying life is wonderful and in my opinion, necessary. Yet, making plans and setting up schedule and finishing all the jobs on time is also your responsibility.

Being a REAL grown-up person is all about taking one's responsibilities. Remember that.

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Yeah, it's something that I would've never done, but I did. And I am proud of myself for making the decision. It's been a wonderful time since then, along with some thoughts coming up as a reminder to me.

It's now two instead of one. Adaptation is necessary and I think I am still in the progress of such stage. 

I must be good, at least way better than who I am now. Being able to handle different tasks and other situations with confidence and appropriate response. 

I may not be very experienced but I am serious about this and I really hope that this is going to be a forever-journey.

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Such a forgetful person I am. Looking back at the beginning of September, Geodesy Retreat, numerous meetings with prof and grad students, things learnt and planned to learn... So many things going on and so many things await ahead. What about now? What about today? The first few weeks seemed fine, with relatively few numbers of assignments. As time passed, the situation has gradually changed. I am slowly losing the state of mind I built which is extremely frustrating.

I must find my rhythm back or else even I won't agree that I am qualified for what I plan to attempt.

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So this is another day not paying attention in class. I couldn't help looking back on my older posts here and falling into the swirl of memories. Along with this song I recently fell in love with, which makes this process more intriguing, "It won't be like this for long".

As for happy events, such as a nice day at school, a happy celebration for a friend's birthday, or simply doing well on a test. It won't be like this for long. Cherish those moments since they are just moments. Soon they will be gone, leaving no trace for us to find or recover. No matter how many pictures you take or how many words you write, they are not coming back and we can only experience them in memories and dreams; Being in a bad mood sucks. Having a heavy load of assignments is as well frustrating. Breaking up with someone, losing a tough tennis match, having a horrible performance on stage...we can only list down too many bad experiences we had. But what for? It feels terrible going through a hard time, however; these are also moments that can easily be gone through time.

This reminds me of the movie I saw a few months ago. Now is Good, starring Dakota Fanning, with this beautiful quote "Life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one."

Now is good, now is bad. Now is just a moment that will soon be gone. Cherish them with utmost care, lest they should slip by without being noticed, and be unreachable ever since.

Now. Here. This moment. So many things passing by, along with so many emotions rising and fading. Grabbing this instant to do what I always want to do and to say what I've been wanted to say may be difficult and risky, yet I think I am going to take the chance this time.

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I haven't been here for quite some time. Yeah, school has started. Assignments and quizzes are all passing through in a tremendously fast rate and I can hardly keep up with the pace of all the deadlines showing up like a series of endless waves. Well, that's that. I guess the only thing I can do is put more effort on those tasks...but this is not what I want to write about today.

It all came in a sudden and I really couldn't help but let it come. One can control his actions but it's almost impossible to control his feelings. When it happens, one can only accept the fact that it is inevitably going have a great influence on him.

It's good. It's bad. It's right. It's wrong. That just doesn't matter at all. I am in the middle of this kinda-delighted yet confusing and frustrating situation. I know it sounds really strange, but I am sure people who are in such conditions can totally relate to this description.

Knowing that writing this down is going to help very little in this circumstance, I still did it in order to remember the feeling right now, since it won't be like this for long. Nothing will.