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Is Google Too Powerful?
2 pages, 508 words, Last Revised on March 21, 2009
Topic: A paper I wrote for my first year Business Case Analyses class. Here’s the thesis: “The main issue at hand however is not whether or not Google is powerful – that it obviously is – but rather how Google honors the responsibilities that come with this power.”
I’ve been here in Manassas, Virginia for almost a month now and to be honest, I’ve done nearly the same thing everyday. This is what my typical day looks like: wake up at 8 am, sit in front of the computer for most of the day, study for a few hours, and of course have three meals a day before sleeping at around 11 or 12 at night. Repeat that for the past month and that’s what I do here. Fortunately, I went to DC a few days ago and will go there again maybe next week.
Besides that, I’ve been practicing my driving. I’ve driven for about 8 hours now and I’m doing pretty well. I have a Virginia learner’s permit but I can’t actually get a license until I’m 19 so I won’t be getting it this summer. Damn.
Since my life is so boring and I have nothing else to share with you, I shall link you to a flickr set with the photos from my day in DC.
The English in the following post will be broken up, not follow logical flow and may be grammatically incorrect but I couldn’t care less as I’m exhausted and haven’t properly blogged in weeks/months.
Today I finished the last exam in my first year of university. I think I did pretty well. In HKUST it would mean “relative-to-the-mean well” since we’re graded on a curve. None of my grades are out yet but they’ll definitely be better than the disaster that they were last semester.
Tomorrow morning I leave for Manassas, Virginia (Washington DC suburb) for 3 months! That’s my whole summer break. So I won’t get to spend any relaxation time with high school friends coming back to HK for the summer or my friends from uni staying here for the summer. That really sucks. Yeah.
I had an interesting experience packing tonight. You see, Continental Airlines doesn’t like musicians (or aspiring musicians such as myself, haha what a joke) and do not allow you to bring anything bigger than a “small instrument” on-board. A guitar is definitely not a small instrument. I don’t have a hard case for it so the only option was to decapitate my Strat, wrap the neck and body in bubble wrap and pad it with clothing and stuff it in a suitcase that will be checked in. Here’s hoping that I will still have a properly functioning/sounding guitar when I put it back together on the other side. Please………….
My plans for this summer are to study for courses I’ll be taking next semester, practice a lot of guitar (given that I still have one once I land in the US), help my parents renovate a house, get a driver’s license and hit up all the museums in DC for a second time. And hopefully meet new people so I don’t die of social depravation or something.
I’m tired now but I shouldn’t sleep so I’ll watch that Prison Break DVD thing I blogged about previously.
I’m done with my first year of university! Only 2 more to go!
Today I watched the last ever episode of Prison Break. Forgive me for being lame, but I’ve followed Prison Break from Season 1 and really enjoyed the series up till the end so this cancellation of the show is somewhat upsetting for me.
Well I don’t have much else to say really except to reference this from Wikipedia:
“Four years later Michael is dead, however the two hour DVD that wraps up “loose-ends” shows that Michael sacrifices himself (he will die anyway) to get Sara out of prison.” #
Here’s a video my friends and I made one rainy afternoon as an extra credit project for our Operations Management course (ISOM161) at HKUST.
I know it’s lame… please don’t flame. (ooh that rhymes) We actually made it the day before it was due and the actual filming time was about half an hour and most of the acting/lines was completely improvised.
Recorded with a cheap photo camera. Edited in iMovie on a Mac. The video below is hosted on Vimeo, so it may take some time to load. Alternatively, you can watch it on YouTube.
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