Life@Stanford

GSC-Vaden-306B

Failed in election of GSC but as what I am it bothered me nothing; however, the friends all felt strange. Even though i cannot be a voting member, i still join that to be a member and spend the funds to grab whatever food i want to try. Yes, I am a Food Czar of GSC. Some ppl do complain about the food provided previous year. They never know the complexity of ordering food and how waste of time this work is. I will serve them something bad in the very beginning and later on they will know how good the food I will serve later.

As years pass, I am too old to keep healthy with little sleep. Got ill since the mid of February. I though i was recovered around mid March and hence headed to the east. But after I came back, I started coughing again which has lasted for almost a month. Yesterday, I finally couldn't stay up any more and went to vaden. Check-in at 2:05pm puncturally, and got out of the clinic at 3:00pm, the longest time I have ever spent in a clinic/hospital. Good news is that there shouldn't be anything wrong with my lung. I don't get a TB. The bad news is that my heart may go wrong. Doctor doesn't know exactly how bad my heart is now. They gave me ECG/EKG, X-ray, blood/urine test and finally helped me make an appointment in the Stanford Hospital. The staff from Stanford Hospital strongly recommend me to see a doctor in CardiVascular department and have full check of my "weak" heart. This time I really felt bad not because I am afraid of getting something wrong of my heart but I am really unsatisfied about my health. A person practicing so much as me gets something wrong on the heart. Ridiculous. This is the truth however. My heart beat is always around 89 to 96 which was only 65 for sure before. Suggestions from doctor are exercising, rest, and drinking more liquid. The appointment of the hospital is on May 11th. Let's see what the things will turn out at that time.

Though heart beats quickly, still need to finish the homework. I take stats306b this quarter and need to use R to do the programming problems. Never touch R before and feel it extremely uncomfortable to use. R just doesn't follow the standard language form. Or maybe I have been using Matlab for too many years (7 or 8 anniversary?). Asked several other people, who all don't vote for R. This time I manipulated some data and have the homework turned in. Still have 2 more to "cheat". Actually, this section of statistics is really like "fake" science. People generate a lot of methods, ideas and run them over simulated data and try to beat others with even 0.1% enhancement of the result. It just makes me remember what Prof. Shen told me before. Those results/papers are useless. No one will read them but everyone will use that to get tenure.

This Saturday might go to beach w/ friends but not sure since not in good shape. I have to start exercising again each day, tennis, jogging, swimming, dancing... May do hiking, camping some time. Any other suggestions?

posted by Anwei @ 11:06 AM