Photo with Miller at UCLA

One of my classmate told me that Miller ( Michael Scofield ) was in UCLA tonight after I ended the long-day MBA life and headed to apartment…then just rushed with him to check whether he was till on campus or not as it was too late maybe.

We were lucky. He was till on campus and was so nice that he almost took picture with everyone student one by one.

Prison Break was the hottest OMTV when I was in my final year at college. I watched till late night just want to finish watching it and know what happened later. After five years, who could imagined that I was now in U.S. and took a photo with him on UCLA campus!

Life is so amazing, that’s why I always told my friends that never make too much assumption on future. Embrace future as uncertainty is the most beautiful things in our life.

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Use Google Analytics and Google Adsense

 

Finally integrate Google Adsense into my personal blog/website. My estimated earnings is $1.85 for two days….so pity I lost all my traffic data after upgrade to a new version for the website..It take so many years to gain the data….By the way, Google Analytics is a really good tool to monitor your website, you can customize almost every data you want to know about your personal website..and it’s easy to use.  Now since you have both Google Analytics and Google Adsense accounts, you can integrate Google Adsense and Google Analytics to monitor the performance.

Well….I still just have a basic knowledge about how to use those tools, after all, now it is just as personal hobby and I don’t need to know much about the website as there is not so much traffic now. But I do love those product. It’s a better way to use those product if you want to know how it works and whether there is any place and improve…..though I come to realize that it is almost impossible for me to become a product manager in the future….

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Quick notes about life

Time flies! Only one month before the final exam…some quick note about my MBA life at UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Startup at L.A.

It seems L.A. pays more and more attention on startup environment. If you are serious enough, you could find more and more resources  about startup, accelerator, incubator and tech summit. This Friday night, I attended a event named Sawtelle Tech, they invited a angle investor David Lee as the keynote speaker to share his experience and opinion with us. 10 People have the chance to pitch their ideas in 1 minutes in front of him and other peers. It’s a great experience to merger into this vibrant environment and meet with so many people who share the same interest to start up their own company. I am lucky to be here.

Compared to SF, New York,Seattle and Austin, L.A. still need to improve this environment for entrepreneurial, and attract more and more talent to come here to make this startup ecosystem better.

Next Month, I will travel to SF, and I believe it will even more attractive.

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Feng Xiaogang Imprint Ceremony

It’s lucky to be here and witnessed the first film director from mainland China giving his speech and accept the glory for his imprint ceremony in this Film Kingdom.

It’s also the first time to be so close with the movie stars and the director.

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Quick Notes

 

1. 正式开学一个月,已经有同学退学了. 虽然不是很相熟,但算在华人里,也曾一起IPO后的Trip. 退学原因不详,做了这样重大的决定,肯定自己想清楚了. 或许真的想要非常低调的处理退学,非常理解,或许大家都会好奇吧.  听闻今天早上就从哪里来回到哪里去. 只是私下想起来, 自己曾在昨天中午在宿舍外的路上碰到他与他夫人,同学也便打个招呼,匆忙的离去. 或许这是最后一面吧, 虽然人生无处不相逢,但是我还是觉得,很多人,再见就几乎再也不会见到. 从这个喧喧闹闹的, 每个人都在关心着自己的事情,忙忙碌碌的MBA生活中悄无声息的退出,或许绝大部分人,如果不是别人提起,也不会注意到吧.

2. 早上去面试了一个Startup, Base在纽约,Anderson’13的一个学长今年毕业加入了这个Startup公司,公司已经融资过两次,小规模大概就3M USD, 听闻半年内会要再融资5M。是Internet相关的。还挺有趣的一个模式,至少可以让自己转向Internet提供些履历以及经验。美国,或者特指加州,更是一个很不一样的地方,或许湾区更甚吧. 有很多的人,当然包括MBA学生,毕业后都愿意或者想去Startup公司, 尽管他们此前拿着很不错的收入,他们毕业后加入大公司也可以期望到很不错的预期收入, 可是他们还是愿意take risk 去小的创业型公司.  而反观国内,大学毕业生或者MBA项目,大家都想去要大的公司,知名的国际公司(包括以前的我自己或者是现在的我或许依然), 很少有人愿意首选或者甚至次选startup公司。优秀的人才都想要更大的舞台,去大的公司历练。其实这本身也没有错,可是是什么造成了Startup公司对国内优秀人才的吸引力这么低呢?而美国却好受欢迎. 另一方面,其实即使很多美国同学也许也会Full-Time选择一个创业公司实习,可是他们平时都至少想要去一些创业公司实习一下,了解创业公司的运作等. 或许这是产业,环境等整个创业团体的生态系统区别了美国这样创业团体聚集和其他国家的状况.

 

3.  老美其实比自己认为的学习努力与聪明. 之前总有人和我说,老美其实不太努力学习,也没有那么聪明,我们中国人或者亚洲人学习更努力,更聪明, 学习成绩不会差的.  我肯定是想当然了, 所以我也没有太用心的学习,毕竟每个人的MBA目标不一样, 而Top GPM 的Academic并不是自己的目标. 或许这也是自己并不是太用心学习的原因。但是不是花那么努力用心学习的前提条件是,自己至少保持在75%-85% 的水平. 不过这次其中考试,尤其Accounting又一次给我小小打击了下.  几乎所有Section的平均分都90+,我连平均分也木够到,虽然平均分确实也是有点高. 通过此次考试,至少知道了目前自己的努力程度与回报程度,以及如此付出后考试水平在MBA群体里的大致分布. 后半学期以及期末考试,自己还是需要多花时间用心的准备准备. 低于平均其实客观上也没有什么,只是有些学术荣耀范畴无法接受, 毕竟咱也好学生当了这么多年了, 咋滴不能出国了就当差生了吧.

明天考试经济学,要加油喽!

10/28/2013@ Weyburn Terrace

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Goodbye Mid-term

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@Knott’s scary farm

Finally say Goodbye to Mr. Mid-term, at least Stats and Accounting. Have not taken exam for many years in school, everyone seem excited about the exam.

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With Sush ( man, your name is hard to spell…..)

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First time on the party bus, on the way to the scary farm.

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@ Goodwill 

Tonight I will attend the Halloween Party, first time in U.S. Everybody said it will be a big party.  Just have some fun after the mid-term.

Still busy at weekend, prepare the cover letter and other things. Tomorrow maybe will prepare for the econ mid-term.

P.S. Failed the behind the wheel driving test for three times…they even took my temporary driving license. I have to take the written test again…so sad about this….

It seems become busy and busy, hope I still can find some time to record my life and though, although I find I have less and less passion to do this, and seems lots of things in mind, lots things on the to-do-list.

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学会放弃

 

B-school is like real biz world, full of exciting things and opportunities. you want to them all, right? who doesn’t!  yet you have limited resource, time, $, people.  so, find out your limitation, sort out your priority, and do the ones you MUST do, and learn to let the rest go.  many times, my role is not to pick what we should do, but to turn down the projects / meetings / trips, we don’t need. Same for biz school. –From a CEO friend who graduated from Stanford MBA.

真正的MBA生活已经开始三周了, 感觉匆匆忙忙, 日子过的越来越快,不知不觉一天,一周,或许一个月就这样过去了. 每天都是在各种日历安排下围着转,不需要仔细思考自己一天要干嘛. 学习,learning team, ACT Group, corporate event, Parker CMC, club, lecture, social event等等. 每天也都在各种邮件里转着. 把第一时间不考虑的邮件丢进分类目录,把要去的活动第一时间注册,备注在日历表中,把犹豫不决的邮件依旧放在收件箱。 每隔几天清理清理收件箱. 生活似乎就是在每天的各种选择中度过. 经常是同一个时间有不同事情overlap. 开始的时候便想着尽可能多的参加一些活动,多参加社团,社交活动,讲座,酒吧等. 不过不需要多久便会明白,什么都想要,什么都想抓是不现实的.

MBA 生活或许正入前人所说,不是要给自己做加法,什么都要去. 而真的是要学会慢慢的认清自己,知道自己要什么,慢慢narrow自己的想法,自己的选择,在相对明晰的大方向上,学会舍弃,舍弃那些并不重要或者作用并不大的事情。因为手里的资源有限,如何在两年时间里发挥最大的utility至关重要. 然而这却又是一个自我醒悟的过程,旁人的说教作用甚微,只有自己去尝试了做了才会明白. 有些人比较幸运,目标明确. 有些人比较折腾,或许要花很久,尝试很多次之后才会慢慢做出自己的选择. 并无优劣之分, 只是各自认知世界的方式不同而已.

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焦躁

最近确实有些焦躁, 不安. 感觉各种的时间不够.

正式开学后,上课学习,做作业,工作相关的Club活动,寻找实习的各种准备. 每每都感觉时间不够,更别提social活动了,其实已经好久没有参加各种活动了, 顶多参加在学校内的公司招聘之类的活动. 晚上的各个Section或者周末的活动基本都没有参加. 周末几乎都是呆在家里学习,看书,看书,学习. 还是感觉时间不够. 知识消化来不及, 很多都是要看一遍或者上课一遍之后就要会做题考试, 来不及慢慢消化慢慢领悟.

对于明年Summer Intern也比较不乐观。近来越发感觉要和Native English speaker 竞争在美国High Tech大公司的Intern职位真是有些吃力,自己还是没有准备好应对这样的场景。感觉各种压力和没有底气。

或许过来刚来的蜜月期了,最近有些煎熬的感觉了,没有第一阵子的蜜月期的开心。现在开始担心各种纷繁复杂的状况,应对好学习,社交和找工作的压力. 而目前感觉很多精力都放在了学习上面,在社交和找工作上的精力放的也不是很多. 或许其实自己并不需要这么在意成绩吧,只是至少得听懂看懂能够做出些题目吧,否则也太悲剧了。但即使这样也耗费了自己大量的时间.

或许需要好好调整一下状态了,这样焦躁的心态其实对于学习,找工作都是非常不利. 还是需要保持一颗比较平和的心!!!

相信一步一步的总归会找到自己的道路的.

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UCLA Anderson Amazon CASE Competition

下午Amazon Case Competition, 两只队伍入围了最终的决赛. 周五没有课,但是依然还是有很多人到Anderson参加最后的决赛presentation.

Amazon Case Competition是Amazon 与 UCLA Anderson合作的一个商业案例比赛,基本就是每年十月在Anderson举办一次,一年级新生和二年级的学生组建队伍参加。每四个人一个队伍,去年有58 team, 今年也是58 teams注册参加比赛.

Amazon Case competition 都是HTBA在组织(High The Business Association, Anderson 最大的一个俱乐部之一)。或许也是很多Anderson学生到学校后参加的第一个商业案例比赛. 在HTBA Kick Off meeting正式宣布今年商业案例比赛的日程安排后,几乎在一个下午的时间,大家都纷纷的组建好了队伍,或许有些早在宣布前就已经联系建立好了。总之在我想要outreach寻找队友的时候,发现很多都已经组建完毕,不得不佩服MBA同学们行动的迅速.

言归正传, 本周一上午9:00 大家正式收到Case的信息,必须在周二中午12点前提交各自的方案. 或许亚马逊就希望考研四人小组在24小时分析解决问题的能力吧. 因此周一晚上不知道有多少人都是半夜或许次日又早起在讨论方案.

参加本次Case也是收获了挺多,虽然在第一轮58支队伍进前6参加半决赛的时候就被淘汰了. 但是也确实体会到小组讨论参加比赛的感受.

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Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Larry Fink

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Anderson 请来了Blackstone CEO Larry fink 做为演讲嘉宾来分享. 听得云里雾里,都是宏观经济的一些话题,只零星的抓到只言片语。确实对经济相关信息关注太少,连听懂都有些问题了、何况是英文。或许我对Business感兴趣,而不是对Economics,尽管两者关联甚深。

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迟迟来到的正式开学

 

转眼到L.A. 将近两个月了,终于在周四正式开学上课了. 感觉此前两月便是在各种Orientation中度过. 先是八月时国际学生IPO三周, 休息一周多便是九月份正式的Anderson MBA学生的Orientation将近三周. 不过显然九月份的Orientation含金量和安排更加的丰富多彩.很荣幸自己被分在了Anderson Section C中,三周的Orientation接触下来,感觉Section C还是挺有爱的,团体的凝聚力也挺强. 要不是Orientation阶段天天都有各种事情在参与,估计也可以隔三差五的歇息博客. 不过转眼发现自己一个多月没有写任何东西了,便觉得瞬间空间好大,想要记下的东西太多,便没有东西一一细细道来. 或许凝化在自己心里也不见得不好,未必要事无巨细的记载下来。每天的事情似乎也几乎都在Wechat中留存了,不过或许哪天Wechat不那么使用了,记忆或许也不会随着文字的消失而渐渐模糊吧.

P.S. 啥时能够出个任何东西在其他social website 记载的,分享的,写的文章,贴的图片,都可以留存一份到自己的私人的博客上,或者类似于私人的记忆库之类的就好了。这样既可以满足social connect的需要分享,也可以满足自己独立博客留存的需要。既不会像独立博客一样只是自娱自乐,也不会像social network 一样只循环与各自建立的大独立王国之中.

由于我们九月底开慢悠悠的开学,这两天把自己的fall quarter的日程安排了一下,发现还是挺紧张的。从下个月开始,似乎corporate presentation,academic schedule等等都要全面展开了. 真正的不可能三角定律就要出现了:Study, Sleep, Social! 终究不能样样俱全. 周四上了一下accounting,Economics, statistics 后发现自己也几乎把大学的知识忘的差不多了. 虽然第一天的课简单的不行, 但是换一种语言还是需要消化一下. 或许自己应该更加的努力学习了.

小组讨论的时候大家说了各自的三个目标,我也说了自己的三个目标:

Goal1:学习美国文化,更多的接触美国文化,融入美国文化

Goal2:保持不错的学习成绩.( 我猜有个B+??)

Goal3: 在美国找到理想的工作.

不知道自己未来会在何处,只是眼下自己似乎还是目标相对明确的:尽量能够在毕业的时候先留在美国(最好加州: 洛杉矶或者旧金山)工作生活几年。

希望日后回望,自己真的努力实现了自己的短期目标.

而对于长远的目标,老实说,还是依然比较模模糊糊.

Go Monster!!!

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