Summary and Response to Steve Jobs’ 2005 Commencement Talk at Stanford University

Writing assignment for English Writing class, version 1:
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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech was very thoughtful for anyone who needs some inspiration in life. In his speech, he illustrated three philosophies based on his life stories. Firstly, he talked about pursuing what you love and believing in all the efforts will eventually form meaningful pictures [...]

Research: About My Research

This is a writing sample for my English writing class . Second revision.
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My research area is circuit testing. Circuits, which perform specific functions once powered on, are where electrical engineers implement their design idea. One may find circuit testing techniques being applied in different design phases: from verifying whether your design meets customer’s expectation [...]

Life: Another Page of Life?

It has been a week after my Ph.D. screening exam. Before the exam, I wrote down a lot of plans on what I want to do after the exam. However, after the exam, I don’t have energy to carry all of them.
Reviewing the plans I wrote down, it is easy to find that those [...]

Life: Good luck

Good luck to all who is taking ECE screening exam tomorrow, including myself.
We WILL PASS!
Sherman

Life: Learn in this way!

It’s amazed to me that I still don’t know how to learn!! I really will appreciate if someone had told me how to learn a material – that would save a huge amount of time.
Prof. Steve Long demonstrated a constructive way of learning circuits: first understand fundamental building block, and then build on this [...]

Life: Spring 2007 Courses

After today I will have attended one session of each of the classes I will be taking this quarter: English Writing, Communication Electronics, VLSI Project Testing, and VLSI Design Validation. Although four classes may seem a lot, the workload is actually not that bad.
English writing has weekly homework but should be manageable. VLSI Design Validation [...]