Midterm Review

More than half of 2007 has passed, and it may be a good time to review my resolutions for 2007.

• Do well in MAT357 Real Analysis and ECO100 Economics (2006 Spring)
• I worked very hard for MAT357 and the result turned out to be good, and I indeed learned a lot from the course. Working on a homework for a whole weekend was a pain during the term, but somewhat memorable in retrospect. Specials thanks to Jay, Sheng, and Andrew for all the enlightening discussions.
• ECO100 was pretty easy and I seldom attended lectures after the first test due to the low entropy rate in lectures. But I did get a good understanding on the basic stuff and result was satisfactory too.
  
• Status update: DONE.
  
• Perform well at Altera
• It was a memorable 12 months. I learned a lot, worked hard and had lots of fun there.
  
• Status update: DONE
  
• Take GRE
• Status update: DONE (awaiting AW score for final approval)
• Have a good summer research experience
• The work in Professor Kschischang's group is very fun and so far I have made some progresses. But more to be done before any real achievement.
• Status update: IN PROGRESS
  
• Get my driver's license
• Status update: TBA
  
• Pick a good design project topic
• I choose Universal Portfolio, under the supervision of Professor Wei Yu. We have a very strong group, consisting people with strong technical or business background. I am very optimistic about our final result.
• Status update: IN PROGRESS
  
• Do well in the 2007 Fall
• I am looking forward to it!
• Status update: TBA
  
• Make profit in Forex trading
• Nope, no profit so far. And my trading is in a dormant state as I don't really know how to make profit consistently. I may resume this when I get more time and more experienced.
• Status update: DEPRECATED
  

In summary, so far not bad. But there is at least one more important task --- apply for graduate schools and I will work hard on it too.

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Life is an opportunity to do something.

Goodbye 2006, Hello 2007

A Brief Summary of 2006

• Ski Trip
• Rank of 2005 Fall (comes out in 2006)
• Nortel Institute Undergraduate Scholarship
• Montreal and Ottawa Trip with Cathy
• Rank of 2006 Spring
• Starting working at Altera Toronto
• The Adel S. Sedra Outstanding Student Awards
• IEEE Canada-Toronto Section Scholarship
• Andrew Alexander Kinghorn Scholarship
• Point Pelee Trip with Cathy
• Fail to take the driving test
• First paper
• B. Liang, S. Drew, and D. Wang, "Performance of multiuser network-aware prefetching in heterogeneous wireless systems," to appear in ACM/Springer Wireless Networks
  

2007 Resolutions

• Do well in MAT357 Real Analysis and ECO100 Economics (2006 Spring)
• Perform well at Altera
• Take GRE
• Have a good summer research experience
• Get my driver's license
• Pick a good design project topic
• Do well in the 2007 Fall
  

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Life is an opportunity to do something.