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Yes, I’ve posted again! It’s already fall 2016, my third year in Tucson, and everything that happened in 2014 feels like it was just yesterday.

I know it’s been about a year since I wrote on this blog. Most of my time has gone into studying, so I can go home, so I can finish this choice early, one I partly regret and partly am glad about (the road of coming to the US to study). That’s why I chose to take classes over the summer.

Summer

Speaking of summer, in summer 2016 I went to Japan.

I was there for 5 days in total and had a great time. It was the happiest summer I’ve had, even though the summer classes were exhausting.

In August I came back to the US, thinking about moving, and I was actually pretty happy. But the day I got back in August and reached my old apartment, I was completely stunned. The place had been cleaned out: the lock was pried open, and most of the stuff I mentioned in my last post was gone. Three monitors, the router, the graphics card, the NAS (including the four hard drives in it and all the data). The most tragic part is that I didn’t have insurance, so what’s gone is gone. I called the police, but there’s not much hope, because there are no cameras anywhere in the complex.

Later I moved into a new place, got a DS916+ and a new router, and after that bought some parts and built myself a Hackintosh.

Back to school

Since I took summer classes, I was a sophomore when school started. This semester I’m taking about three major courses, and it’s going pretty well so far, except there’s so much homework that it eats up a lot of time. This semester I’m learning MIPS, a language I’d never studied before, and honestly I’m a bit lost in class. In earlier classes I could coast on what I already knew, but this one I really need to put work into.

This semester has been fun. It seems like as long as I’m learning a lot, I’m happy. On my birthday I was even lucky enough to see a rocket launch. A nice surprise.

Right now

The main thing right now is probably getting through next week’s exam, and going to the Tutoring Center more often to talk through homework.

I’ll write on this blog more from now on. Sometimes I have a lot I want to say, but in the end I just digest it all myself. I also need to remind myself to write more technical posts. After all, a lot of the time I can’t remember later why I wrote my own code the way I did, so I should write a post to keep a record.

PS: I’ve noticed my written Chinese has gotten really bad, especially punctuation. I have no idea where to put it anymore……