Booking the tickets

Here is a great website from my friend Amyliu:

http://matrix.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch/login

It's a serach engine that shows all possible itineraries and their current prices. After you find your flight, just buy with the airlines or your travel agent. Don't buy on priceline or orbtiz! They will charge you a fee and that results more expensive! And what's worst, you can't refund on priceline or orbtize.

Spring Break is Coming

Eventually, my spring break is coming. Lots of things happened since Chinese New Year. School work was extremely busy. I finished bunch of C++ codings and debuggings, homeworks, and projects. I also gave a try for the mock interview, and then attended the career fair. Most important of all, I had retinal break laser last Friday. I saw sparkle in my right eye during Chinese New Year Eve, which indeed freaked me out. Then, after the eye examination, it seemed okay. Fortunately, the doctor transferred me to Dr.Heeg who expertize in retina. He deteced a small hole on my retina. I will have a follow-up on April. Ah...I need to have my eyes dilated again

Anyway, I will have a week break. In addition to dealing with the HUGE project of valuation of J.M Smucker, I will travel around Chicago on May 15 to May 17.  Eventaully, I get a chance to relax a bit. Lastly, thanks for my new friends and my ela intimates who are there for me all the while! I am really lucky!

The announcement for the very first time at Case Western Reserve University

Campus closed: February 14, 2007
Due to the inclement weather all classes and activities have been cancelled for February 14. Dental patients of the university with urgent needs should contact the oral surgery resident at University Hospitals.

Don't doubt it! Evening classes have cancelled tongiht. Tomorrow, there'll be no class! The faculty said it's the very first time that school closed cuz of blizzard since Case has established!  It was terrible! It took us 80 minutes to go back home, which normally it's less than 15 minutes. Anyway, thankfully I am back home safe and sound.

My last two month at Cleveland

What happened in the last two months is a long story.

School work was not very heavy in the beginning but it's getting difficult and has lots of homework&cases to deal with. Specially, probability is my bottleneck. I get to spend more time studying since my classmates are all from China except for one Indian. They are very smart and they have learned many quantitative subjects in China. Probability is easy for THEM.

As for daily life, none can hardly believe that I went to see a dentist in the States. It's TRUE! What's worst, I had root canal, which costs me $600! That was a painful experience. Anesthesia and antibiotics are too strong in US, which in turn make me serious stomach upset. What a nightmare.

Hopefully, I am fine now despite the fact that I had lost several pounds.

The journey just begins.

I can hardly recall when I start to plan on studying abroad in US. It probably began in my second year at university, where I had a discussion with my senior who was going to study at UIUC-Urban Champaign at that time. I hesitated in deciding what degree to pursue. Macc? MBA? MSF? MS in statistics? MS in economics? I even attended the cram school for the very first time in my life, struggled for 2-3 months alone in Taipei studying GMAT, and suffered from serious diarrhea.  But, at last, instead of GMAT, I took GRE. Isn't it hilarious?  Anyway, though turbulence was along the way, I deeply appreciate my friends and professors' helps. (I am not going to name everyone since too many friends and friends' friends to thank) Thank you for professors who gave me advices and wrote me recommendations, NCKU classmates who assisted me in those complicated procedures of applying for official documents, friends who polished my essays and sops, and those who listened to my complaints and kept their fingers crossed all the way. Pigs might fly.  Fortunately, I got the admission.  I am pursuing my Master of Science in Management - Operations Research degree at Case Western Reserve University this Fall, 2006.