Diary

I didn’t do too much work today, we had an office hour today. After that, I felt boring and lazy. Went home very early.

Today had a group meeting in the noon. I became the social leader on the meeting. I and Zhiqiang need to hold a coffee time on Friday. I worked till midnight for the office hour of tomorrow.

I didn’t sleep well again last night. When I finally woke up at 10:30 AM, Huan was still asleep. It was a boring day. I boiled some rice noodles for lunch, but I didn’t have much of an appetite due to having eaten so much at yesterday’s buffet. In the afternoon, I focused on working on Huan’s visa application. I honestly think her colleagues are completely selfish. They don’t care about your actual needs; they only care about things that might affect their own work or future. So, all they say is, “We can only give you this.” But is that what you actually need? I really dislike their attitude. ...

Today, Dr. Liu treated our group members to Yangming buffet to celebrate the Christmas advance in winter season. Kourosh kindly gave Amir and me a ride. Although the weather was very harsh, I felt incredibly warm today. Everyone was so kind and optimistic. During the buffet, Mr. Rob released the scores for RFI #7 and the final exam. I was so scared that I didn’t dare to open Canvas to check my total grade. To encourage me to check the result, Amir and I made a bet on who would be the “loser.” ...

I didn’t sleep well last night and felt very down. Today was equally difficult. We had our last class at noon, where we had to give our final presentation. At the end of the presentation, Dr. Mohammad asked us a question, but I was unable to answer it. I felt immediately sad and ashamed. Ultimately, Dr. Mohammad gave us a score of 13/15. He is a very kind person, but in that moment, I felt like I had disappointed him. ...

In the morning, I submitted RFI #7. At noon, we had our mining engineering class, where the instructor gave us a final review. I don’t care for this teacher and find his explanations to be confusing and disorganized. After the mining class, I had to prepare for the concrete exam that evening. I felt completely overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content and didn’t know where to start studying. The first three hours flew by quickly, and then the two and a half hours I had left before the exam also vanished rapidly. ...

This morning, I polished and submitted RFI 7 for the Concrete Materials in Practice course. In the afternoon, I focused on reviewing class lectures to prepare for my final exam. I attempted to use Copilot to develop a Zotero plugin that would export vocabulary words directly to Eudic, but unfortunately, it performed very poorly (or didn’t deliver good results). After finishing my work, Amir and I made our first-ever trip to the Cameron Library. ...