Berkeley, Tuesday, October 30, 2018 6:30 PM Dear followers and readers. Thanks for have been checking this blog in a frequent basis, by either liking posts, or following or subscribed to it to get notifications when I post, or the most brave, who is mainly a sentimental connected person, Jian, by commenting, or by just […]
Category: Personal Blog
Humble and concise
Berkeley, Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:58 AM This week, I have learned two important things, both were advices, but the second one was part of experience. Yesterday, in a discussion with Joe McBride, a Emeritus Professor who I admire, a topic regarding the preparation to the qualification exams was in the table. Joe has traveled […]
Hey, please do not hit your head
Berkeley, Friday, October 5, 2018 12:30 PM I have not paid fully attention to all the risk of heating my head, although, of course I have acknowledged how important and sensitive is it, as the brain is there, until learnt about further details about concussion. On September 24, I was diagnosed a mild concussion, 2 […]
How much to ask before annoying or being annoyed?
Berkeley, Wednesday, October 3, 2018 10:35 AM The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943), when had a question never gave up until the question or request will be answered. I, usually, have the same approach, however, there is a point when my instinct, or whatever internal voice I have, alert me to do not […]
A month with Jian
Berkeley, Wednesday, October 3, 2018 10:17 AM September seems that was a long month. Time is relatively. I often correlate time with how many things have been done. September was, definitely, an active month in my life, and in some ways not all my decisions are only driven my own preferences and time management anymore. […]
Clarity, a need for writing
Berkeley, Wednesday October 3, 2018 10:06 AM I write for clarity. I need to write daily about decisions, failures, ideas, challenges, questions. I need to catch up with my blog posts. I have not been writing in a daily basis, and rather sporadically, since September 15. I often speak my mind, and in previous days, […]
Back to perform at full capacity
Berkeley, Thursday, September 28, 2018 12:26 PM I was able to convince myself and to convince the Doctor that I back to work at full brain and energy capacity after being diagnosed a mild concussion on Monday, with mild brain injury, as a result of hitting my head against a bended tree on Saturday, September […]
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Berkeley, Tuesday, September 25, 2018 3:20 PM One of the favorite quotes from my PhD advisor, Matt Kondolf, is “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. This proverb promotes to expand ourselves to a larger set of tools and methods available to analyze a case or to solve a problem. Often, […]
Life experiences in a duck shaped curve. I welcome a frequent recurrence of the curve. Thus, the lifetime curve has a sinusoidal shape.
Berkeley, Tuesday, September 25, 2018 2:14 PM Fig. 1 is a more detailed version from a chart that I was instructed about what to expect during my academic journey in my program. I was instructed about it in a Fulbright orientation seminar ‘Pre-departure’, in Quito, Ecuador. I think the exact date was June 9, 2016. […]
Accounting and balancing number of blog posts to reach one per day.
Berkeley, Tuesday, September 25, 2018 2:00 PM I have written 34 blog posts since August 18, 2018, which is 39 days ago, when I was determined to start my daily blog. Jian was one of the persons who challenged me, plus my personal motivation to fulfill this activity. Since, 11 days ago, Friday, September 14, […]
