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先简短地回顾一下2009年～
一月份，我开始准备GRE。我意识到再不考GRE要来不及了，于是马上准备作文，背单词。结果作文考得甚烂……不过Verbal考得还不错。
到了五六月，一堂生物信息学课为我打开了一片新天地。上好那堂课后，我意识到，也许将来做研究或者当老师会是个不错的选择。还记得有几次在实验室算到半夜才回寝室，还有一次是和老师出去喝酒喝醉了回到寝室。么办法，天生喝不来酒……
七八月份，我有幸在复旦参加哈佛的暑期班，体验了美国大学的课堂，领略了哈佛牛教授和牛助教的风采。Yves同学，您上课的水平堪比国内的许多教授啊～

总的来说，2009年还是过得很开心的。

新年里，希望自己多读书，多锻炼，控制好用电脑的时间！

祝大家身体健康，万事如意！
找工作的和出国的同学offer多多！

去年我旁听了几节音乐课，老师曾播放一段指挥大师排练的视频，演奏的是《伏尔塔瓦河》。
四教的音响设备不咋的，但这丝毫掩盖不了这首曲子的活力与震撼力。
遗憾的是，我没记得这位指挥家的名字。我只记得视频是黑白的，大师说的是德语，字幕是日语……从那以后我在网上陆续找过多个版本的《伏尔塔瓦河》，但没有一个版本能带来当初听到时震撼的感觉。
终于，今天我无意中发现了这段视频！
这位指挥家名叫Ferenc Fricsay，是一位天才。只可惜他英年早逝，留下的影像资料并不多。有机会要听听他的其他作品！

今天晚上看到东视放第四部的第一第二集。
想当年还是初中的时候吧，有段时间每天晚上看《铁齿铜牙纪晓岚》，真是一大乐事啊。
这一次依然是铁三角组合，有味道～
很期待第四部剧集～

后天就要开学了。
我希望还能多过几天暑假啊～
下个学期有不少事情要做，包括研究、申请，当然，课还是要好好上的。
不管怎样，我还是很期待下个学期的～

好好学习，天天向上。

Three days ago, when Professor Lue declared the summer school closed, I could not believe that time flied so quickly. During the six-week summer school, I have experienced the courses from Harvard University that are so different from those in Fudan. 

It was in Jul 7th, my 21th birthday, that we had our first class "living science" and "vital statistics". "Living science" addresses how life science research impact our lives in the context of US, India and China and three corresponding avatars. In each class, or "meeting" as we call it, three to four students give presentations on different topics on the basis of  assigned readings and their selection of additional readings. When I got the first book  of assigned readings, I took it for the reading material for the entire summer session. However, it was actually for the first two classes! Some of the reading material was quite long, especially those from social science, which poses a challenge to my reading ability. I was scared. I doubted whether I could handle so many readings. But I did go through those readings and became accustomed to reading long social science papers. 

The first presentation I gave focused on the origin of HIV and how it came to human through zoonosis. Before the presentation, our group had dicussion with our TF Albert and Professor Lue to decide upon subtopics and what to focus. After that, we read through papers and wrote summaries and ppts. During my presentaion, I was a bit nervous but still confident. The presentation was supposed to last for 20 minutes, which is challenging for me and many Fudan students I guess. But I made it and brought the two questions I raised into discussion.

Frankly speaking, taking the course "living science" is no easy task. We need to finish reading materials and think about questions raised by presenters before each class. We shall take an active part in dicsussion in class where our Harvard colleagues are often the first to raise their hands. In a word, we need to be diligent and "brave".

The "vital statistics" course was a great fun. We have all kinds of interesting issues as the backdrop to bring out the topics in each class. Viagra, Fen-phen and Vioxx are three "amazing" drugs that are used to introduce points in statistics. We have also touched on several fallacies that people tend to make in interpretation of data. The exampled we used were all from real life and published papers. Calculations in this course was simple. Concepts and  understanding of statistics were really the key points we should grasp.

The group project for stat class is a precious experience for me. My group was initially composed of four Chinese students but no Harvard student. Later, Sandy, a girl full of passion, joined our group. I still remember the day when I opened the mailbox and saw a project proposal delivered at 4 am. Without her help and participation, we would have ended up running short of time and making a fragmented report.

Presenting screening policy for a disease with real world data requires not only biological perspective, in terms of screening techniques, but also statistical calculation, which is the major issue in this project. We have to decide which data set to use and which to abandon. The depth of the project should be maintainded at a point where you can clarify the problem, suggest policies and avoid considering every detail to make the calculation too complicated. We should also make use of the knowledge we have learned as much as possible but should not make the means the end. This is the disparity I had with one of our group member. If I had more time, I could have made our project more coherent.

Here I want to mention Yves, our TF of "vital statistics" who prepared the slides and TF section during the summer. He was really talented to make every slide clear and coherent. The TF section was also well organized that we can have a clearer understanding of the points we met in class and get some extension. I believe that he has been the "star" for all girls and most boys in stat class.

Six weeks is too short a period. But we still have had much fun learning and playing with our friends from Harvard. I want to express my gratitude to Robert, Xiaoli and Zhiliang for your wonderful lectures. I want to express my sincere thanks to Albert and Yves for your TF sections and lectures. I want to thank Huihua, Sandy and all advisors who make this program possible. And I want to thank my group member Sandy, Kai, CC and Chuan. Thank you to all Harvard students in this program. I hope I will meet you guys again!

今天同外国小朋友参观江湾校区和枫林小区，顺便去中山医院逛逛。

江湾校区还是那么的美。两个月前来这里的时候一个小湖上面还没什么东西，如今已铺满了荷花，有白的和粉红的。湖中心还有一个小岛，上面有座小房子，房子外面是个栅栏，里面有好几只鹅～～鹅在那嘎嘎叫（是这个象声词吗？）这个场景多好啊！如果能在那小房子里住两天应该很不错吧～ 

令人感到意外的是，我们看到一个中韩剧的剧组在江湾拍摄！大家围观了一会儿。一对人从某楼门口走下楼梯，然后右侧跑来一个女生，喘着气说了几句话，我记得有什么“你是属鼹鼠的啊”什么的。马上有个帅哥拉着箱子从后面快速走来，说了一句话，然后和女生一起向前走去。就是这个场景～真好玩啊～～ 

中午到枫林校区吃午饭，吃好饭后几个人想找厕所。不知谁说二楼有厕所。跑上去一看根本没有……然后我带着三个中国和外国小朋友去图书馆解决……

到了中山医院，Sandy召集大家的时候说错了话。她好象是把"Come on, guys"说成了"Come on, gays"，然后马上反应过来了，说应该没人听到吧～不过我听到了，爆笑……

后来一组人去逛徐家汇，一组人留在医院找要找的资料。我中途离开去听BBY一个讲座了

回到邯郸校区后还有抢旗子游戏，应该很好玩。只可惜我听完讲座出来已经4点了，回学校的话游戏差不多结束了，于是我直接回家。有点可惜啊。

今天还是很开心的～

天公不作美，上海下雨，没法看日食。早上8点多太阳是露过脸的，但之后就一直被乌云遮住……
不过在乌云间隙我还是看到食分大概1/8的太阳～
之后就等天黑。效果不错，如果绕光华楼草坪的那条路的路灯关闭就更好了。
也就暗了4分多钟，天快快地亮起来了。有人说10秒钟的亮度变化差不多是清晨的1小时。
人群渐渐散去，不过我还是坚守在光华楼前。
俗话说，早起的虫子被鸟吃，晚走的鸟儿有虫吃。果然，我在十点多看到了生光后的太阳，大概还有1/4的半径被覆盖吧～～此时光华楼前已经没剩多少人了，大家看到太阳都很兴奋啊～
我最后十一点多离开光华。

今天多数是用肉眼观察的，只用到过一次眼镜，还花了点时间暗适应，不过从眼镜里还是看到几秒钟太阳的～