Sunny girl is always shinning!

嘿嘿，这次开会是在Oregon。开会期间我把oregon downtown 走遍了，去了garden几个，bar几个，没来得及逛街。见了大牛无数，发现做声学的大牛都很好玩。尤其是老爷爷级的，特喜欢拉着我说话。发现很多人尤其是学生做报告的技巧都很一般。有一大牛的presentation做的非常好，后来知道他是我老板Tom的mentor，我老板说没有人愿意在他后面做报告的。这是我第一次在美国开会，但是这次开会已经给我了机会跟那些只有在paper上才能读到的大牛见了面。想法很多：

1. 开会老板非常重要。我的老板是大牛级的，他见到其他大牛就介绍我认识。还拉我去参加committee meeting的open section。完了之后说，这下你知道我们怎么办事了，等你回到中国就有所参考了。

2. 跟学生交流非常重要。跟学生交流，尤其是一起吃饭或者喝酒的时候，就会知道很多实验室现在在做什么或者打算做什么... 不是听报告能够听来的。

3. 踏踏实实做学问最重要。跟别人交流固然重要，但是最关键的还是要做出有价值的工作。

 

还有很多，有待总结。。。

 

 

今天因为得了湿疹去看医生（没什么事，大家不用担心！就是冬天太干了），医生帮我量了血压92/62， 心率62。我看了数字觉得挺奇怪的，就给LG打电话，LG直接说我咋跟人不一样呢，还说怪不得我平常整天乐呵呵的，原来是因为我低血压，嘿嘿！吓了我一跳，回来在网上查了查血压和心率都在正常的范围以内，只是低于平均值。但是LG的论点对我启发很大，难道一个人的性格和身体机能是相关的？有意思！有机会研究研究。

 

今天下午作实验，又失败了！于是，我就在这里瞎胡写。我认为做成一件事情的过程就是在失败中逐渐成长的过程，等你失败了一定多的次数，然后对失败已经没有感觉，甚至开心的时候，你离做成一件很难的事情就近了！

 

 

估计我要是再不更新我的博客就要被人骂死了！

 

在4个月内我回了2次国。

 

八月份回国主要是跟Su回去见家长。双方爸妈都很满意。我们还在西安拍了婚纱照。至于婚礼我想在美国领张证就行了，我不喜欢折腾。

 

最近又回了一次国，这几天还在倒时差。这次回去主要是开IEEE的会。这一次又拿了大会给学生的best paper奖。我没有什么骄傲的，我觉得我属于学术界。到目前为止我只参加过2次国际会议，都是在北京。第一次是2005年，我硕士三年级初。当时我的同学都在哗哗发文章的时候，我什么都没有。甚至有人都说我已经不是以前的陈红了。但是那次会议出乎我意料我竟然得了大会给学生的best work 奖。但是更重要的是我找回了自己，也坚定了自己对自己的信心。今年的奖我觉得是我们整个团队的奖，没有我导师选的这个课题，没有实验室其他人的帮助我是不会做出什么成绩的。虽然这次大会汇报的是我最初最初的一些结果但是没想到他竟然能够得到这么高的评价。做科研是一个艰苦的过程，想我自己的实验失败了多少次，到现在实验方法还是不理想，每次失败我都会被打击不少。感谢我老公对我的鼓励和支持，他对于科研的悟性和认识远在我之上，我坚信他必然能够创造辉煌的成绩。

 

 

To Tough Life, thanks for always caring about me. I'm good. Life gives me more than I expected. I'm so appreciate that I have good  friends not only in US  but also in our Motherland and I think some of them will become my lifelong friends even though we might be far away from each other and haven't contact with each other for a long time. 

I'm always happy but I think I'm happier now than when I was in our Motherland. I'm growing up but growing to be more like a child. Like a child, I'm excited about life and do whatever I like to do. If I keep on staying in school and keep on doing research in lab, I think one day when I have child I might be at the same age as my child. I like what I am now but I also need to learn more about life.

Doing research is really exciting. I don't think I'm working as hard as I was before, but I enjoy more than before. There are endless problems and lots of the problem that no one can give you a direct answer. You need to find your way to answer it. For some problems I think that if I couldn't find the right way, I might couldn't solve it even if I work on it in my whole life. Some problems I think could be solved, but I need to find the bridge that could help me to use the knowledge that people already know to solve my problems. 

Doing research is just part of my life. I'm also learning about life. I'm a nerd. The defination of nerd according to dictionary is "A person who is single-minded  in scientific pursuits but is felt to be socially inept". That is me, That is what I feel about myself. I'm learning to socialize with people but I'm not successful enough. People like me because I'm always happy. But I still don't know "technically " how to socialize with others. I have a bunch of friends arround me but I don't know how to care of them and they might consider that I'm still far from them. I cherish my friends as much as I cherish life. But there is still lots of things that I need to learn.

In my own "imagined" world, life is always filled by sunshine. But in reality it seems not. My labmate who is from Canada what to stay in US because her BF is here but she couldn't find a postiion here. Then she have to go back. When her tears fall down I know how painfull it is. I'll go to her farewell party tonight. There might be tons of such sad things happen every day. Maybe as your nickname, life is tough. But my understanding is that life is short, because it's so short we need to enjoy it. I don't know, maybe I will change my opinion after I have more experience in life.

I need to go to do lunch. I'll make 排骨面 today.

Like is beautiful, enjoy it!

Now, it's the end of the summer shool. I'll go back to seattle at tomorrow.

The summer school is great. We have great good, great lecturer from different areas of Acoustics. And about 15 graduate students from different universities. I like my time in here-New Mexico- very much. All the lecturers are famous in their area and they have different styles. It's so great that they could dedicate one week to teach and communicate with us. I think I did a great job in this week. I've talked with every people in this summer school and try my best to learn things.

Jay is the instructer who talked quantum mechanics. I don't know his background but I think he must be a very famous scientiist.

Dr. Nice guy (Steve Garet) is from Penn State. He love chinese cultrure and have been to China many times. His Chinese name is 波王 which makes him " the king of wave". He is funny and must like me a lot, because I call him Dr. Nice guy.

 

Milton tought infrasound. He is so enthusiasm in his research. At the end of his lecture, he ask us to "follow the fire". To do thing that you are excited.

 

Logon is very good. He is the sponsor and organizer of this summer school. The summer school is every two years and has a history for more than 20 years. Logon is so old but so nice. 

 

Tom also go to the summer school.

 

I can't put down everyone's sory and need to go bed.

 

My quaulifying exam will start next week. Good luck to myself!