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It is the season of holidays. But for MISMers, festivity and celebration seems no more trivial; we all have only one aim and that is to land on a decent job among many interviews we are about to go through in the new semester. So, it is best now that we seek nourishment and strength in the coldest of winter break, in the hope that we all blossom in the coming spring.

 

Ming has been revising his resume relentlessly, and has never been satified with it. Sishi has been learning database and programming by herself. It won't be easy, considering some of us have learnt it for years. Nonetheless, her tenacity and determination moved me. Jean even went the greatest length to NYC just for an interview before Christmas. And there is also the Shanghai gang, who have already tried numerous interviews in the past semester.

 

Seeing my friends making their moves, I start to feel agitated and motivated. I took a first ever look at the tartan track for internship openings for the summer. To my surprise, I am so close in missing many resume submission deadlines. Hoosh~ I wonder if there is somebody in MISM who's more blurred than me. These are the interview opportunities on campus I selected, which I think would be some interests to MISMers. Hope my friends have already taken note.

 

    Company, Position, Resume submission deadline

 

1. CITI, Quantitative Analysis Summer Analyst, 1/1/08 

2. MERRILL LYNCH Global Markets 2008 Summer Analyst, 1/2/08

3. Highbridge Capital Management (HCM) Summer IT Intern (Development), 1/3/08

4. BARCLAYS CAPITAL 2008 Summer Analyst - Technology, 1/7/08

5. DEUTSCHE BANK Technology Summer Analyst Internship Program, 1/8/08

6. Morgan Stanley Sales and Trading Summer Analyst Position, 1/10/08

7. UBS MUNICIPAL SECURITIES/PUBLIC FINANCE SUMMER INTERNSHIP, 1/14/08

8. Goldman Sachs & Co. Technology Summer Analyst, 1/16/08

9. DELOITTE CONSULTING Business Technical Analyst Summer Scholar, 1/18/08

10. Autodesk 2008 Technical Summer Internships, 1/18/08

11. SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORP Field Engineer Internship, 1/18/08

12. FACEBOOK Software Engineer, Intern, 1/25/08

13. ERNST & YOUNG, LLP RAS - Technology & Information Intern, 1/31/08

 

The curtain of 2007 is pulling down, time to say goodbye. The sun of 2008 shall rise tomorrow. Nothing will be different except that some of us may bear new hopes. My dear friends, wish you interviews well done and wonderful jobs clinched in the new year! Happy new year!

It was Thanksgiving yesterday. It is a holiday to give thanks to things one has at the conclusion of the harvest season. Shops close early; few cars are on the road; the American folks go back early to have a reunion dinner with their closest ones at home. It is like our Mid-Autumn day—though the food is different, and so is the meaning for celebration, -- the theme is the same, it is all about family. Being able to sit around one dinning table and chatting away with your loved ones nearby a blazing stove, while the snow flakes dance outside the window, is a beautiful moment in life.

 

It would have been a quiet and lonely thanksgiving but thanks for Steve’s kind invitation to join him for the celebration. Derek and I reached his house early to help prepare for the dinner. We were responsible for baking the turkey, which is the most important item on a thanksgiving dinner. We bathed the turkey, massaged it with salt and pepper and loaded it with stuffing from the back before putting it into the oven. It all sounds easy but it took us almost eight hours making it.

 

Later that afternoon, Sishi, Dingpei and Yuhan came to help too. Not long was the table filled up with delicious ingredients for the hotpot, which was our unique addition to the turkey dinner. Guests flew in now and then. Night fell, and we ate, drank (fruit juice), turned red in the face (because it was hot) and played an interesting party game.

 

After the dinner, a young boy dragged me aside to play chess with him and soon we were joined by a few other people and started playing checkers. Other people were discussing whether they should go to Best Buy for the Black Friday sales, which would open at 5am, but people would start queuing up at 3am. I was amazed by this kind of unique US sales and was pondering if I jumped into such craziness too.

 

It is only appropriate that I end this journal with my gratitude. To my parents, thanks for giving me life, love and strength; my friends, for your accompany and support while we are studying  together in US.

研究生第一学期已经去了一半，我觉得自己是有罪的，具体表现如下：

 

1。玩得不够丰富。除了在学校游泳，桌球，壁球，基本上没有什么其他娱乐。

2。学习不够认真。读书从没主动超过午夜12点。超过了12点一定不是读书。

3。交友不慎，认识了几个损友 － 凯少，晓建，思诗和丁佩。整天有事没事和他们混在一块，放着自己家里的两个女人不管。

4。花钱没有节制，现在基本吃餐厅的便当，已经忘记了要勤俭持家，自己做饭。

5。睡觉太多，浪费青春。要知道我们有一个伟哥，每天忙到只睡3个小时，还要帮老婆做实验，写报告和编程。

6。上完课没有及时复习，博客没有经常更新，人没有变高变帅，记忆却慢慢衰退，头发渐渐变长。。。

 

好了，废了很大脑筋终于数落完自己了，还真是不简单啊。如果时间可以划上一条线，我要跳过去，从明天mini 2开始，改过自新。

中秋之夜，我们几个中国同学，一起到附近的中国餐馆吃饭。

这一顿加小费共花了120刀，是我到美国后吃得最奢侈的一次。

我们有八人，平均下来每人15块。

聪明的小明同学马上发现了这是个吉利的数字 －－ 不正好庆祝八月15嘛！

哈哈～大家夸过小明后又开始夸玲姐小费给得妙！

 

在国外留学就是这样，因为有了一群朋友，在枯燥的学习和孤独的生活中才找回了一点快乐，才有一点点期盼。

 在美国的时候想献血，遭受过歧视。今晚看到新闻说市血站缺血，碰巧在回来路上看到鲜血车，就去捐了一些。第一次，心情很好。

本来不想让父母知道，可手上贴着胶布，还是交代了。然后我就遭到了严厉的批判，差点到了要写检讨的地步。

我希望得到理解。。。

理解需要沟通。。。

为什么和自己最亲的人每次都要这么累。。。

什么都不想说了。。。

问题明天再解决。。。