Good so far

So far so good as the results of the application went pretty well, and the interview with one of the Harvard student turned out to be a satisfying acceptation. Therefore, I have been busy preparing for the plane ticket and accommodation stuff. I think I am prepared for all those obstacles lying ahead and look forward to life abroad. Though sometimes a struggling one, the challenge may serve as once-in-a-lifetime chance to learn not only the knowledge but myself -- to which extent I can endure and work diligently. No one is really perfect. What I can do is to work hard to fulfill the ideal me. What I think I am to be is the one that I have to be.

Working Women fairy tale

It's like a fairy tale early days when women can be accepted to jump into their own career. Until now, women have got a load of seemingly equality. But according to what I have observed and seen from books and theses, it is just so superficial and fragile that women and men are fairly treated.

In my company, my supervisor (female) who works extremely hard just had a really wonderful performance on her product line. But several people simply claimed that it was because of her good looking that appeals those clients to purchase the products, which makes me extremely furious. It was indeed because of her diligence and wisdom that the product line achieved the great success in the market. Those people just ignored the fact and criticized her for cheating with her beauty. Well, if it were a man, they probably wouldn't have said that. What an unfair world!

Also from the book, Lean In, written by Sheryl Sandberg, I get to know that women have their own lack of confidence. Women have also been incorporated into the normal ideology that female can't really achieve that much and have to rely on males to succeed. What a despair. If women don't stop themselves from those things that keep holding them back, who can?

Don't live in that fake fairy tale anymore. Stand out and speak for yourself. Do what you think you should do. Don't care what others think about you. You are what you are.

A Well-carried-out Interview

I have just had an interview with a Harvard student named Kate. Well, I have to say that this is my first experience talking to people from Harvard, and it really hit me like a wake-up call that I am really living in my own ivory tower. The way they talk, the thing they speak about, and the topic that they discuss were all perfectly via logical thinking, correct chosen word and good pronunciation, which made me feel ashamed when talking to them. However, the experience had me think of one thing that our professor J. R. Lee mentioned -- remember to try your utmost even though it is the road not taken. So there I go again, with my utmost. Hope those applications and essays soon come to an end though.