俺今天华丽丽地在自我意识中阵亡了。
问题：
1.Why do you choose St John’s College?
2.Do you have any seniors studying at St John’s College?
3.Have you considered taking Math H3? Why did you take Physics H3?
4.What programming languages do you use?
5.Are you aware that Computer Science is not all about programming? —> Then Dr Martin continued to explain a bit on what CS constitutes.

Math:
1. What is a prime number?
2. How many prime numbers are there?
3. If I have a polynomial n^3-1, how many prime numbers can be expressed in this form?
4. Write down five to six prime numbers.
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17…
5. Take a look at (3,5,7). For these three consecutive prime numbers, each one differs from the previous one by 2. Can you find another three consecutive prime numbers down the list in which the latter two prime numbers differ from the previous one by 2? Prove it.
6. What is an irrational number? Give me some examples.
7. What is an infinite family of irrational numbers?
8. Is the sum of two irrational numbers rational or irrational? Prove it.

Normal Qn:
1. Are your parents paying for your education?
2. Are you the only child in the family?
3. You did not take any SAT. You are not applying to any American schools, right?

我是当天最后一个人，出来之后外面嘛人都没有。俺孤伶伶一个，心情沮丧，欲哭无泪。
Disaster 1:
没有准备为啥报st john’s，给了个完全没有说服力的答案，喜欢它的五百年历史的campus还有叹息桥。我总不能说我是一个没有主见的放open的然后被学校分去报st john’s 的无知小屁孩吧。

Disaster 2:
数学Q5用了很长时间才想到用余数来解。俺是个弱人。

Disaster 3:
数学Q6我只列出了e 和 pi, 我完全忘记了根号2，和那些奇奇怪怪的surds。甚吖！！！！Dr Martin一直在probe我，可是我至少用了两分钟，就是想不起来。。。我是个弱人。所以导致我的Q7也直接阵亡。

Disaster 4:
我不会做Q8，也没时间了。干坐那里皱了半天眉头搞了个没什么用的assumption就放那儿了。。。Dr Martin说要move on…说you can think about it on your way back…俺就知道俺没戏了。。。

Disaster 5:
Normal Qn Q3. 这个是最致命的吖。。。我是一头猪。。。我说no, 然后又突然小宇宙爆发说我考了SAT subject test，前段时间十月初刚考的，然后十二月准备考SAT1，所以还是考虑了美国大学。我重申我还是比较想去英国的，因为决定要学computer science。但是！我不记得有没有说，表上没填SAT成绩是因为填完表才决定要报SAT的。。。所以，如果他认为我不老实，隐瞒成绩，人格有问题。我就死掉了，彻底灰飞烟灭。。。我是一头大大的猪。。。

当然。俺爹娘老说我爱往坏的方面想。唉，做得好的地方也有啦，比如有笑，有握手，有挺直背，有看着考官的眼睛说话。而且我答题的时候真的是尽力而且全情投入了，我老老实实地按照我平时做题的样子做的，我甚至还记得我连自己的小动作都忘了控制隐瞒，想不出的时候就用笔尾戳自己脸上最肉的地方。。。我窘死了。。。反正，我只做到了最基本的面试要求。梁老师总说我聪明有灵气，可是我不认为我聪明到能够在半个小时里头展示出自己的聪明。而且，我对数学没那么自信，至少对数字的敏感程度不强。我不是数学天才，没有天赋，但是我从来不怕数学，就觉得它是门工具，我能理解它，能学懂，但兴趣缺缺，仅此而已，不甚热爱，俺不是侯蓬卉。

现在想来，我觉得我就是一个普普通通的充其量不笨不木讷的学生而已。我不认为我身上有那种耀眼的光芒能在半个小时甚至更短的时间里用智慧把面试官迷倒。俺是个凡人，大大的普通人。没啥智慧、没啥知识储备、没啥临场发挥能力、没啥口才、没啥容貌。不过我想通了，既然cambridge这么重视学生数学功底，如果我真的没有这个能力和智商，硬挤进去也不一定跟得上进度。我不能不自量力，不要搞得像学长们说的那样，进出容易出来难。所以，我应该老老实实地在今后所有的面试中真诚地展示我自己，不会的就不会，会的就是会，不要勉强，不要伪装。让那些经验丰富的大人们来决定我是不是最合适的学生/雇员吧，他们的经验与决定也许能冥冥中帮助我走出一条最适合自己的路。面试不是演戏，演技越高，虚假成分越多，最终只会害得自己得到不适合自己的东西，彼时也许把当初追求的offer丢都丢不及。勉强无幸福。嘿嘿，原来这句话考大学申奖学金也用得上。

嗯。知足常乐。安身立命。俺是炮灰俺怕谁。

By the way, 俺要提一下服装问题。开眼了。。。报law的真的全都穿business suit+高跟鞋。。。华中大部分人还是穿校服。。。那啥，得记录一下圣浩哥的经典建议。。。穿旗袍！！！LOL，其实是俺受刺激之后随口冒的，他居然当真了。。。他说我唯一的看上去不像逛街的白连衣裙一点都不正式，像清纯少女的衣服。。。我腹诽了一下。。。俺不就一未满二十的青春少女么。。。干啥硬要俺装成熟白领吖！！！！！哼哼哼。。。我要是今天穿旗袍了，不知道会不会吓到Dr Martin，真是无法想象一个穿旗袍的女人说着英文做数学题的样子，诡异至极，一点都不搭调。我猜我都能去演joy luck club或者2046了。反正要是我真穿旗袍了，那在RI到处问路找地方的时候一定不敢说我是华中来的，俺不敢给母校丢脸。。。俺丢得起，华中丢不起。。。
不过，话说，我还真想试试穿旗袍去面试/逛街/走在珠海大马路上的回头率会有多高。。。嘿嘿。。。不知会不会被当成神经病/穿越/街头卖艺的。。。貌似结果会很好玩啊！！！

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Google has admitted to collecting fragments -amounting to 600MB – of personal data through Wi-Fi networks when its Street View cars mapped various towns and cities in 34 countries around the world.
In May this year, Alan Eustace, a senior vice president in engineering and research at the Mountain View company, said Street View cars had been “mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open Wi-Fi networks, even though we never used that data in any Google products”.
In June, the company said it had deleted private wireless data collected in Austria, Denmark and Ireland.
A string of code in the production systems of Street View cars allowed Google to retrieve and store information about the networks’ location, names and Media Access Control (MAC) addresses on wireless networks that were not password-protected.
VS…—the interception of communications without permission.
The UK’s information commissioner set something of a precedent last month, saying that an investigation by the commissioner’s office had found that Google is unlikely to have collected “significant amounts of personal data”, and that there is “no evidence as yet that the data captured by Google has caused or could cause any individual detriment”.

“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful… a significant amount of information can be found in mapping the world, by gaining a better understanding of the world in general.” —-Stephen Chau, product manager for Google Maps
Bankston, though, who himself is viewable on a street view photograph walking to work, says that these Street Views represent an ominous invasion of privacy. “We’re moving into a future where not only must you realize the risk that you might be photographed in public, but where it’s becoming a near certainty that you will be captured any time you go out,” he says. “It’s indicative of the direction in which we’re moving — where everything occurring anywhere is Google-able.”
Possible solution — obscuring the faces of people
Find this article at:http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1631957,00.html

a fundamental principle of privacy – that information should only be used to further the specific purpose for which it was collected. All actions boil down to an individual’s right to privacy – and what information requires prior consent before being made publicly accessible.
Street View—a way to show you what a place looks like as if you were there in person—enable people around the world to learn more about these areas—This allows you to visit places you don’t normally—Google has continued to innovate: “With each new release the imagery is of a higher quality and there are more tools to protect privacy, the technology evolves and it’s easier to navigate.”
—One of the things that caused us surprise was how different the various nations’ view of privacy were.So we had to change the way we operate to accommodate that. (Localisation of international companies)
—“In many ways new tech is always a little concerning to people. Like caller ID on [mobile] phones – that was concerning when it was a new thing, now it’s accepted and agreed to be a useful feature. You have to draw a contrast between how many people use and the minority that are relatively loud. For us, it’s about enhancing the use of Google Maps and we know that that increases by 20% at least when Street View functionality is added, making it the most popular web-mapping site on the planet.”

The candidate’s level of commitment in serving the community serves as a proxy indicator for his commitment to the Public Service. How committed is he to his Community Involvement Programme or CIP? What is his reason or motive for taking part in it? Does he truly enjoy serving the less fortunate or is he doing it primarily to make his CV look good? What reasons does he give for wanting to join the Public Service? Do they ring true or is he saying what he thinks we want to hear? Given his character and personality, is he likely to break his bond or stay overseas?
tough and difficult questions,–how nimble and astute a mind you have.
But it is always good to show you are aware of, and have an interest in, what is going on in Singapore and in the world.
Being yourself means not attempting to be what you are not.
If you fake your personality, you will tie yourself up in knots and will very soon be found out. If you have no interest in making the Public Service your career and your real motive is only to get funding for an overseas scholarship or to enjoy the prestige of being a PSC scholar, we will know.

下午去学校的路上，看见文驰,骁扬和芸菲走在前方。他牵着她的手，即使回头看见我，也不避忌，像相处了很多年的情人一般自然。午后阳光斜斜映在廊道上，我塞着耳机，听不见他们的对话，只觉得当时当刻艳羡他们的小小幸福，就如某个晚上在楼下洗衣房外头看见坐在地上等待心驰的恬静小女人从容一样。每次都恶作剧般地从他们当中穿梭而过，口中大声嚷嚷着：“让一让！让一让！羡煞旁人了吖！”我想我是真心为别人的幸福而欢欣喜悦的。

文静今天过二十岁生日。我们总嘲笑着说过了十九便是奔二的人，过了二十便是奔三的人了。违了自己说不出门的决定，一帮子人，熙熙攘攘。看着这些一起长大的朋友，看她们四年的成熟变化，每个人都正值芳华，是一生中最美的时候。大学未定，前路迷茫，可这并不阻碍我们享受青春和生活，依旧彼此调笑，嬉笑怒骂，一如往常。

嗯。不是小孩子了，可是心境还未完全转变。好像人生才刚刚开始，可又怕倏而惊觉人生就过去了一大半，就像我那不留踪影的还未享受够的童年。明年的最大心愿，就是在家里过春节和生日。以后几年，都不知是否还会有这样的机会。

隐隐地，我开始期待回家。也期待我们这群人真正为人妻为人母之后再聚的日子，但愿彼时眼角的皱纹，不会席卷走我们少女的心。愿心里永远保持一份纯真，一份不谙世事的直率无邪。

我想要过最朴实的生活，亲朋相伴，平安喜乐。