I am still very disappointed by McCombs decision to put me on the waitlist. On the hand as I pondered throughout my vacation, there is opportunity for us, the entire family. The first thing that came to our minds was to have our 2nd child. We have been seeing Markkus around other kids, he always wants to play with them, regardless if they want or not. We love him so much that we want to give him any thing he wants.
The benefits such as not having to find another trustworthy pediatrician and family doctors are also great. On top of that, my last biopsy has confirmed that 5 out of 7 moles that removed by Dr. Stafford could lead to melanoma. I was shocked!
Let's clear our head, with my GMAT score (97 %tile) and Undergrad GPA, I am good enough and even more for any school in the country. Should I be applying for MBA next year, I would definitely brush up my resume and my essay.
So, good bye McCombs for the moment. Until you contact me for the final decision again.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007
Waitlisted by McCombs
Very disappointing letter! I wish I know where my gap is so I can better prepared next time.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Good Bye SC101
Another Spring, another tax refund electronic check.
This time, I and finally redeem my mistake of buying this toaster oven looking Network Attached Storage wanna be:
SC101 - NETGEAR.com
I have got a Linksys NSLU2 from Amazon and Western Digital My Book Premium 500GB an USB 2.0 External HardDrive from Costco.
First step was to retrieve all the valuable photos from SC101, overall there are 150 GB of photos and video chronicled our lives. It took 24 hours, no less, to copy all of them to my USB HDD.
In contrast it took less than 2 hours to copy from the USB HDD to my new PC.
So let's do the math:
The Router is rated at 10/100 Mps so is SC101, the laptop which I used as a tandem is also at 10/100 Mps. USB 2.0 is rated at 480 Mps. So the bottle neck is accessing those files from SC101.
And it is at: 150G/24 hours approx = 1.7361 Mps
In conclusion, just the transfer speed itself is a waste of my money.
Whereas transferring 150 GB via USB is at 150G/2 hours approx = 20 Mps
All things consider at a 20X speed it is the end of story.
Final thoughts of SC101: It is running on a proprietary driver and Netgear is planning to release the driver for Vista in Fall 2007! I have not desire to keep other computers this long on XP just to accommodate this slowest NAS wanna be of the house. Therefore I got this NSLU2 and USB drive combination.
I am going to install Debian on the NSLU2 and try to move some of the LAN functions such as firewall and DNS to it later.
This time, I and finally redeem my mistake of buying this toaster oven looking Network Attached Storage wanna be:
SC101 - NETGEAR.com
I have got a Linksys NSLU2 from Amazon and Western Digital My Book Premium 500GB an USB 2.0 External HardDrive from Costco.
First step was to retrieve all the valuable photos from SC101, overall there are 150 GB of photos and video chronicled our lives. It took 24 hours, no less, to copy all of them to my USB HDD.
In contrast it took less than 2 hours to copy from the USB HDD to my new PC.
So let's do the math:
The Router is rated at 10/100 Mps so is SC101, the laptop which I used as a tandem is also at 10/100 Mps. USB 2.0 is rated at 480 Mps. So the bottle neck is accessing those files from SC101.
And it is at: 150G/24 hours approx = 1.7361 Mps
In conclusion, just the transfer speed itself is a waste of my money.
Whereas transferring 150 GB via USB is at 150G/2 hours approx = 20 Mps
All things consider at a 20X speed it is the end of story.
Final thoughts of SC101: It is running on a proprietary driver and Netgear is planning to release the driver for Vista in Fall 2007! I have not desire to keep other computers this long on XP just to accommodate this slowest NAS wanna be of the house. Therefore I got this NSLU2 and USB drive combination.
I am going to install Debian on the NSLU2 and try to move some of the LAN functions such as firewall and DNS to it later.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
are you being served?
This evening we went to Fry's Electronics to return a HDTV antenna, the famous Phillips Silver Sensor. Unfortunately I never really need the silver service because the previous owner of this house already installed a HD-compatible antenna in the attic. Awesome!
Just a few words about the antenna before I go on about Fry's. The antenna is about 6 ft long and pointed at 191 degrees, which is exactly the compass orientation antennaweb.org recommended. I was so grateful that we bought a pre-owned house instead of a brand new house. It saves us a lot of headaches.
Now back to Fry's. I am always amazed by the clientele. They are usually people who are very specific about what they are looking for. I am always skeptical about the cleanliness of their employees' hands. Every time I go in to Fry's, I would end up washing my hands at least 3 times. Anyway, the antenna is now selling at Fry's for $28.82, $1.17 off the original price.
Just a few words about the antenna before I go on about Fry's. The antenna is about 6 ft long and pointed at 191 degrees, which is exactly the compass orientation antennaweb.org recommended. I was so grateful that we bought a pre-owned house instead of a brand new house. It saves us a lot of headaches.
Now back to Fry's. I am always amazed by the clientele. They are usually people who are very specific about what they are looking for. I am always skeptical about the cleanliness of their employees' hands. Every time I go in to Fry's, I would end up washing my hands at least 3 times. Anyway, the antenna is now selling at Fry's for $28.82, $1.17 off the original price.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
No News from McCombs
I read another blog for the b-school diva, she got waitlisted. I have not heard from McCombs yet! Is that good news, I supposed.
My situation is a touch more complicated, since my wife also applied for BBA. And our ultimate goal is to go to UT together. Hope this work out for both of us. Because we are so looking forward to another college life, make new friends and get ready for a new career.
BTW, good luck b-school diva!
My situation is a touch more complicated, since my wife also applied for BBA. And our ultimate goal is to go to UT together. Hope this work out for both of us. Because we are so looking forward to another college life, make new friends and get ready for a new career.
BTW, good luck b-school diva!
UTDallas
I went to UTD representing the company to interview some interns candidates. The sheer number of students wanting to talk to us was just overwhelming. Here is the visa status breakdown of the studnets that I talked with:
90% -- without work authorization in the U.S.
10% -- with work authorization, i.e. they are either U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents.
Besides me, there were 2 more managers and 2 more engineers (I think they are young, at least young----er than me)
The reality is that only us ... a.k.a us, Nortel and T.I. are willing to hire F-1's. And the lines are long in all of the three companies. I was very saddened to see their faces of loneliness and filled with anxiety. I was there once, but I got 6 job offers 2 months before I graduated, so don't worry guys.
Many of them finished with their Bachelors in their native countries and came here for better future. Unfortunately the future is not yet decided. We were looking for people with such specialties that no courses can offer. At the end I found a few that had worked with this line of business before and were also pretty good communicators.
My process is very subjective or objective depending on your point of view, I first look at their face, then hear they talk and then look at their resumes. By the time I look at the resumes, I have 2/3s of my criteria scored. I found that despite the complexity of our work, most of students in line should have no problem handling them. But to communicate and work coherently with the rest of the team has always been a challenge. I found some of the new hire with heavy accents that are rather difficult to understand. I found also that if many of the new hires got frustrated by lack of complexity of their first assignment quickly, so I usually warn them right at the spot.
At the end I handed 7 resumes out of 100 people that I talked with to my manager and he will do the final selection. I wish them luck.
90% -- without work authorization in the U.S.
10% -- with work authorization, i.e. they are either U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents.
Besides me, there were 2 more managers and 2 more engineers (I think they are young, at least young----er than me)
The reality is that only us ... a.k.a us, Nortel and T.I. are willing to hire F-1's. And the lines are long in all of the three companies. I was very saddened to see their faces of loneliness and filled with anxiety. I was there once, but I got 6 job offers 2 months before I graduated, so don't worry guys.
Many of them finished with their Bachelors in their native countries and came here for better future. Unfortunately the future is not yet decided. We were looking for people with such specialties that no courses can offer. At the end I found a few that had worked with this line of business before and were also pretty good communicators.
My process is very subjective or objective depending on your point of view, I first look at their face, then hear they talk and then look at their resumes. By the time I look at the resumes, I have 2/3s of my criteria scored. I found that despite the complexity of our work, most of students in line should have no problem handling them. But to communicate and work coherently with the rest of the team has always been a challenge. I found some of the new hire with heavy accents that are rather difficult to understand. I found also that if many of the new hires got frustrated by lack of complexity of their first assignment quickly, so I usually warn them right at the spot.
At the end I handed 7 resumes out of 100 people that I talked with to my manager and he will do the final selection. I wish them luck.
Monday, March 5, 2007
Genetic!
After seeing the Ophthalmologist, Dr. David Stager Jr., and shopped 4 eye-glasses shops, Markkus has his first new pair of glasses with the lens from Costco for $49.99 + $18 fitting fee, (because we did not get the frame from them) and the frame from Youth Optical on Coit and 15th in Plano, TX for a whopping $199-
He is severely far-sighted +6.50 on both of his eyes.
Exhibit A: Here is him being fitted for his new frame:
Exhibit B: Here is me trying to put the glasses on for him on the carousel.
Exhibit C: Here is him refusing.
the story does not end here. When I was little, I was far sighted too. I wore glasses until I was 14. I guess he got those genes from me, so are his crooked pinkies.
But I don't know where did I get those genes from!
He is severely far-sighted +6.50 on both of his eyes.
Exhibit A: Here is him being fitted for his new frame:
Exhibit B: Here is me trying to put the glasses on for him on the carousel.
Exhibit C: Here is him refusing.
the story does not end here. When I was little, I was far sighted too. I wore glasses until I was 14. I guess he got those genes from me, so are his crooked pinkies.
But I don't know where did I get those genes from!
Good Job! Daddy
Markkus had his glasses on and watching Elmo's Potty Time DVD,
taking advantage of the time given, Chloe and I ate dinner.
As the show winds down to the last song "You can do it!" -- meaning some day you can go potty too, I grabbed the remote and moved the DVD to the first chapter, which gives us 42 more minutes to eat dinner. Markkus also noticed that and he turned around and said "Good Job! Daddy". I was so impressed.
Actually he has been saying good job to himself, to us for the last couple of weeks. I supposed our positive reenforcement theory works. He also said "Thank You, Mami". It was so cute.
Boy I just don't know how much I love this little guy.
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