Hello and good morning. It is 7:44 a.m., so I can say that. Not like all the other times, when I'm just saying it because I have a limited repertoire of what to say so I have to repeat often.
You know, when I was younger it felt like I could say anything. I wouldn't hold back. I never got to keep these giant secrets that would rip apart friendships, ya know? But now they're everywhere... This probably isn't applicable to everyone. But it's just that now I feel like I can't put everything here. I can't write with confidence in case something is used against me. lol im just being paranoid
Uhhhhhh i don't know what to write about. Maybe that's when you stop writing haha. Or maybe that is precisely when you continue. Just keep talking, and see what comes out, and this is your true thought process and what you really are made of, behind your surroundings, beyond your immediate influences.
If so I'm not a very interesting person.
The bus leaves at 8:00 and it's 7:50. And no I did not spend 6 minutes to write this, although you probably didn't ask. For future me. Even though I've moved a long way from last year, when I would literally live on YouTube, I still watch a lot. Just less.
Time burners nowadays? Well, YouTube still. Idk, Duke takes up 8:00 to 4:00pm. Piano I stuff into all the excess time. And 10:30pm to 1:00am I reserve for something relaxing, like League. Recently I've been watching OitNB. Orange is the New Black.
See, the time slot is because we have a hall check at 10:30pm, after which we have to stay on hall, so might as well glue ourselves to our computers, ey? And then internet cutoff at 1:00am of course.
alright bye
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Internet Cutoff
The internet at the North Carolina School of Science and Math cuts off at 1:00am during the weekdays. Or, Sunday through Thursday nights. So I only have 10 minutes for this one.
Labs are the best inspiration for superheroes, I swear. I'm working with a group that does stuff with x-rays. They shoot x-rays through an object and measure the scattering of the beam and can use that to determine what materials the object is made of. That's a helluva superpower isn't it? Holy crap!
And if you happen to be studying the physics of objects falling into sand, why not be an earthbender? Okay fine I guess that has to be an sandbender. A small-particles-bender? Eh. (If I had to choose out of fire, water, earth, or air, I would be an earthbender. Very practical. And I'd never have to walk again. =D) (Matt)
And. If you're profiling lasers and making sure they're epic and accurate and stuff, why not be some genius who spent their childhood in a basement who becomes their city's superhero who fights with lasers (but not tentacles :( ) that can fire from miles away to pinpoint feathers that drop from... city birds. (Laasya)
AND IF YOU WORK WITH FRICKIN MANTIS SHRIMP YOU CAN BE MANTIS SHRIMP MAN YES. THAT WOULD BE AMAZING. OMG. (Arjun) OHHHH you could have epic rainbow armor and a giant flexible shield tail cape thing and you could wear epic metal gloves and they punch at the speed of a bullet and YOU CAN SEE COLORS. MICROSCOPIC THINGS. CANCER. RADIATION. OMG SHRIMP ARE SO COOL. Although if it's like antman that's not worth. I don't wanna be any smaller than I already am.
I need to know other people's lab stuff. You know, for networking purposes. And to get to know more people. And stuff. Yeah.
kk not risking cutoff imma go bye
bye no-one :(
lol
Labs are the best inspiration for superheroes, I swear. I'm working with a group that does stuff with x-rays. They shoot x-rays through an object and measure the scattering of the beam and can use that to determine what materials the object is made of. That's a helluva superpower isn't it? Holy crap!
And if you happen to be studying the physics of objects falling into sand, why not be an earthbender? Okay fine I guess that has to be an sandbender. A small-particles-bender? Eh. (If I had to choose out of fire, water, earth, or air, I would be an earthbender. Very practical. And I'd never have to walk again. =D) (Matt)
And. If you're profiling lasers and making sure they're epic and accurate and stuff, why not be some genius who spent their childhood in a basement who becomes their city's superhero who fights with lasers (but not tentacles :( ) that can fire from miles away to pinpoint feathers that drop from... city birds. (Laasya)
AND IF YOU WORK WITH FRICKIN MANTIS SHRIMP YOU CAN BE MANTIS SHRIMP MAN YES. THAT WOULD BE AMAZING. OMG. (Arjun) OHHHH you could have epic rainbow armor and a giant flexible shield tail cape thing and you could wear epic metal gloves and they punch at the speed of a bullet and YOU CAN SEE COLORS. MICROSCOPIC THINGS. CANCER. RADIATION. OMG SHRIMP ARE SO COOL. Although if it's like antman that's not worth. I don't wanna be any smaller than I already am.
I need to know other people's lab stuff. You know, for networking purposes. And to get to know more people. And stuff. Yeah.
kk not risking cutoff imma go bye
bye no-one :(
lol
Sunday, June 21, 2015
College Common Application and Interviews:Describe Yourself
So I had an interview with Measurement Incorporated. Dad works there right now and they have a summer program for their employee's' kids. I sent in my application like a month ago, they called while I was practicing piano and I had an interview three days later.
No prep. I didn't bother. I had already gotten into the lab at this point so I was just going for experience.
Oh geez it was so bad. I stumbled over my words and was awkward saying hi and even shaking her hand and I'm sure I looked nervous as hell. All of the questions were so basic but I felt stupid answering them. I didn't even answer some of them. I just. Mumbled. And stuff. She asked if I could describe myself in one word and I said no. God it was awful.
I'm bringing this up because
well because this is where I'm supposed to write stuff
but also because college interviews. I'm worried. I don't know how to talk about myself.
So I'm going to practice. Right here. I'll get random interview questions or college essay questions and practice.
for fun... kinda
I did get the job though. Not really impressive... dunno if they actually reject anyone. I could've helped in their IT branch or been a helper at the Durham museum.
Eh. I get to work with x-rays. ^_^
Except not really because regulations and stuff. But I get to work with the team that does, and they're pretty cool. I'll probably write about them later.
So anyway, let's have the first question:
T_T
Describe yourself:
My name's Sicheng Zeng. I'm an American citizen but I was a citizen of China for most of my life, and despite this I have horrible Chinese. All of my foreign languages skills are pretty poor, haha... But that's okay. I want to go into mathematics or computer science, and computer is an easier language...
Can I try again?
Okay.
My name's Sicheng Zeng. I
what do I talk about?
What could I talk about?
Who I am? My background? What I'm into? What if they ask me again about the same things later? Can I talk about informal things? Should I say anything negative? Should I have something memorized or is that too obvious?
What a struggle.
My name is Sicheng Zeng. I had a teacher last two years ago who told me to stop using contractions. Of course, if I just start at the beginning of this paragraph, that anecdote doesn't make sense and seems random.
My name is Sicheng Zeng. I love mathematics and teach a class on the mathematics covered on the Scholastic Aptitude Test at my town's Chinese Saturday School, Cary Chinese School. I'm taking a lot of courses in that field, and a lot of them were interesting and challenging and I swear I'm not bsing. I enjoyed learning about number theory a lot, and combinatorics too, although that wasn't as challenging. I'm hopefully holding a seminar with two friends in the fall on some interesting tidbits of mathematics and how they were discovered, in chronological order. I'm also the president of the Go Club at my school, and Go is this game that's like chess, but older and more complicated and better. We just get together every two weeks and play together. I also play piano, have for almost 14 years now, which is crazy sounding to me. I do competitions, but I also play casually at school Koffeehauses and ballet performances and I've been invited to play at a convocation, with the school orchestra, and at recitals at Duke and the Durham School of Music. In my spare time I like playing computer games or hanging out and talking. I used to read and write a lot too, but now my studies take up too much time.
Can I memorize that? Geez.
No prep. I didn't bother. I had already gotten into the lab at this point so I was just going for experience.
Oh geez it was so bad. I stumbled over my words and was awkward saying hi and even shaking her hand and I'm sure I looked nervous as hell. All of the questions were so basic but I felt stupid answering them. I didn't even answer some of them. I just. Mumbled. And stuff. She asked if I could describe myself in one word and I said no. God it was awful.
I'm bringing this up because
well because this is where I'm supposed to write stuff
but also because college interviews. I'm worried. I don't know how to talk about myself.
So I'm going to practice. Right here. I'll get random interview questions or college essay questions and practice.
for fun... kinda
I did get the job though. Not really impressive... dunno if they actually reject anyone. I could've helped in their IT branch or been a helper at the Durham museum.
Eh. I get to work with x-rays. ^_^
Except not really because regulations and stuff. But I get to work with the team that does, and they're pretty cool. I'll probably write about them later.
So anyway, let's have the first question:
T_T
Describe yourself:
My name's Sicheng Zeng. I'm an American citizen but I was a citizen of China for most of my life, and despite this I have horrible Chinese. All of my foreign languages skills are pretty poor, haha... But that's okay. I want to go into mathematics or computer science, and computer is an easier language...
Can I try again?
Okay.
My name's Sicheng Zeng. I
what do I talk about?
What could I talk about?
Who I am? My background? What I'm into? What if they ask me again about the same things later? Can I talk about informal things? Should I say anything negative? Should I have something memorized or is that too obvious?
What a struggle.
My name is Sicheng Zeng. I had a teacher last two years ago who told me to stop using contractions. Of course, if I just start at the beginning of this paragraph, that anecdote doesn't make sense and seems random.
My name is Sicheng Zeng. I love mathematics and teach a class on the mathematics covered on the Scholastic Aptitude Test at my town's Chinese Saturday School, Cary Chinese School. I'm taking a lot of courses in that field, and a lot of them were interesting and challenging and I swear I'm not bsing. I enjoyed learning about number theory a lot, and combinatorics too, although that wasn't as challenging. I'm hopefully holding a seminar with two friends in the fall on some interesting tidbits of mathematics and how they were discovered, in chronological order. I'm also the president of the Go Club at my school, and Go is this game that's like chess, but older and more complicated and better. We just get together every two weeks and play together. I also play piano, have for almost 14 years now, which is crazy sounding to me. I do competitions, but I also play casually at school Koffeehauses and ballet performances and I've been invited to play at a convocation, with the school orchestra, and at recitals at Duke and the Durham School of Music. In my spare time I like playing computer games or hanging out and talking. I used to read and write a lot too, but now my studies take up too much time.
Can I memorize that? Geez.
Lab nvm tentacles
I'm working in a lab. I have an office. The key to the office is next to my school dormitory key and my access pass on the key ring.
Wow I can't believe that. I can't even imagine myself saying that last year.
I also need
oh oops i forgot what i was typing there haha. I think it was about league of legends. I wonder how long it's been since I played solo queue. Actually forever. No not actually forever... But an incredibly long time.
It's been so long since I wrote anything, a whole season of League of Legends has passed! It is season 5, things are exciting, I am now silver 4 because I haven't climbed and I placed here, and I'm a Vel'koz main question mark? Tentacles and lasers man I don't known why I didn't play him as soon as he came out. I knew he fit my playstyle, and he really does, incredibly well. Should've instabought him. He's all kiting and intense amounts of damage and long range and poke and burst and I am amazed at his wave clear. Max w first, clear the waves ignoring your opponent and they like, take poke just from being around the wave because the rift is so fat it's amazing.
Last night at 2 I played a game as Vel'koz versus a gold yasuo. Hell that lane was annoying. The windwall can block Vel'koz's w, and the shield blocked so much of my poke. This wall of projectile blocking wind can block a rift opening up in the ground. Game logic! But, I solo killed him first before he solo killed me next =D woo
it was a good game.
This post isn't about the lab at all... I should change the name.
kk done
I'm not sure if I should make long posts, or if I should just do multiple posts in one day if I have to. Like when I change topics.
You didn't need to know that.
anyway
Wow I can't believe that. I can't even imagine myself saying that last year.
I also need
oh oops i forgot what i was typing there haha. I think it was about league of legends. I wonder how long it's been since I played solo queue. Actually forever. No not actually forever... But an incredibly long time.
It's been so long since I wrote anything, a whole season of League of Legends has passed! It is season 5, things are exciting, I am now silver 4 because I haven't climbed and I placed here, and I'm a Vel'koz main question mark? Tentacles and lasers man I don't known why I didn't play him as soon as he came out. I knew he fit my playstyle, and he really does, incredibly well. Should've instabought him. He's all kiting and intense amounts of damage and long range and poke and burst and I am amazed at his wave clear. Max w first, clear the waves ignoring your opponent and they like, take poke just from being around the wave because the rift is so fat it's amazing.
Last night at 2 I played a game as Vel'koz versus a gold yasuo. Hell that lane was annoying. The windwall can block Vel'koz's w, and the shield blocked so much of my poke. This wall of projectile blocking wind can block a rift opening up in the ground. Game logic! But, I solo killed him first before he solo killed me next =D woo
it was a good game.
This post isn't about the lab at all... I should change the name.
kk done
I'm not sure if I should make long posts, or if I should just do multiple posts in one day if I have to. Like when I change topics.
You didn't need to know that.
anyway
I'm falling asleep
i said for the 14th time in two days.
I wonder if people get a notification if I upload any post. I'm sorry if it does. I'm too tired to actually write something worth reading. hmmm
rawrrr i just fell asleep okay imma go
I wonder if people get a notification if I upload any post. I'm sorry if it does. I'm too tired to actually write something worth reading. hmmm
rawrrr i just fell asleep okay imma go
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