让俺想想这周都干啥了。
星期三见Levitt，又有一帮家伙叫我给他们的Freakonomics签字，老板好说话的很，叫写什么joke就写啥，实在是太给我面子了。之后大家开始讨论project, 目前阶段是用繁琐的data来证明老板对五六十年代犯罪率的hypothesis. 在这种讨论中，我这个stata的初学者往往是一头雾水，老板很好人的安慰我"没关系的viva, you will get to learn this during summer"。当时幸福的很感动，这样有名的学者+celebrity畅销书作家，如此耐心的带我，俺期中考试那段啥工作也没干也不不怪我还说我的考试more important than this, 还给俺零花钱。awwwww 3月9号灵光一现给他发的邮件真是太准时了。期待full of stata的夏天。
星期四又在levitt在商学院的办公室Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory工作了一小时，下班后直接就去见Gary Becker大人，超级有感觉。这是第三次见这位当今最有影响力的经济学家。第一次是在rosenwald的楼梯上改作业，这个白发苍苍的老头上楼下楼两次经过我行注目礼，俺当时觉得这人咋这么眼熟，回家一看才知道就是俺崇拜好久的becker. 第二次为了scav hunt牺牲俺的形象去找老头签我的器官捐献者申请，最后还还跟他侃了一刻钟。这一次是为了俺的Chicago Society, 俺的主意，fall quarter办一个Becker-Posner event, 保准反响热烈并顺便招收新生入我们社团。老头一听这个建议眼睛一亮，不过还是非常敏锐地问了许多关于我们社团的问题，最后说，这个主意非常好，我很愿意！ 幸福幸福啊。
那边厢听主席说Posner也愿意参加，然后他的秘书在邮件里告诉我们不要叫他professor posner而该叫他Judge posner @#$#$%#%.
星期五作为新的领导见我们社团的指导教师(advisor) Allen Sanderson. 这个家伙教我们学校的两个经济学intro 课程，似乎只有本科学历学术不行不过在经济系待久了人脉很广。属于畅销书教授一类的。开始Meeting, 他就开始讲他跟obama的经济advisor goosebee有多熟啦，他认识几乎所有的芝加哥赛车手和chicago bears, cubs的人啦，叫我们请我们校长zimmer和northwestern校长搞个对话拉。如果这些资源都可以用到那我们社团可更加发扬光大了。

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工作汇报告一段落。最近音乐课终于进行到20世纪古典音乐，atonality, 感觉就是对耳朵的raping, 不知道其他同学是否有同样的感想。我，JB, alex居然错过了我们应该听得音乐会，于是还要开车去Northwestern听，有音乐学院的就是幸福啊。车一直是John开的，回到Hyde Park现经过shoreland, 我说你们放心先下车吧我自己一个人可以开回去。两个家伙将信将疑地下去了。我自己一个人在hyde park开的居然比terence坐我旁边时开的要好得多，也许是因为自己一个人胆子比较小的原因吧。开到MaxP, 正得意我的驾驶时发现我忘了怎么平行停车了，试了好几次都不行然后后面还来车了，出了我一身冷汗，最后把我max p的buddy叫下来被她笑话了一顿才好。失败阿。
尼克拉斯星期天就从芝加哥飞罗马了，一待待六个月，真是小郁闷。这个quarter有限的空余时间都跑到SigEp, quad, Compton(Shoreland)，我们rec room的台球赛一去不复返，更是伤感。明天中午他妈妈邀请我吃午饭，晚上我组织的送行party，算是弥补一些。
第一年学校只剩下两个星期了，繁重功课加课外活动苦一个星期至少一个后半夜睡觉，但是真要结束时仍是非常不舍。明年在学校里再也见不到christian, moreno, john s. 这帮大四的，很多朋友也会一整个夏天不见。不过还好，不少家伙夏天还在hyde park，期待新的social circle和classy的apt parties, 还有和veronica去泡沙滩泡吧的grand plan。想到这些，就不那么伤感学年的结束了。

黑色的Week8终于过去了（黑色到两天晚上没睡觉）hooray!!!!!! 盼来了三天的长周末，Chris跑到ohio参加表哥婚礼，我的party buddies居然回家了一大半(住在st louis都回家看cards game了）, 晚上学校也只有FIJI一个有活动，而我也确实缺觉，自己乐得在房间里静静。怎么说呢, 去的这些Frat parties, apartment parties大部分都还是社交需要，networking自然是越广越好，朋友的朋友的朋友，还是在party上熟悉起来的最容易。有时呢也需要house music, dancing来发泄压力，但是最喜欢放松的方式还是泡上一杯热饮，看看一直想看没有时间看的书整理下房间写写日记，可惜有这种心情和空闲的时候不多了。很久没有跟smy联系上了，不知道她在成都一切如何。这个周末一天samsu湖边烧烤，而第二天我组织的chicagosociety烧烤大概泡汤了，芝加哥5月底还50多度还下雨，真是小郁闷，只好改到在cheyenne家里了。星期一也许take bus也许christian开他的破卡车去aurora购物，国内的家伙们有什么要求星期天晚上前把要求发过来哦。

 

为什么我的眼睛常含泪水,因为我对这土地爱得深沉

还有一个月的学校, 事情一轮接一轮.忙着听Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven写我的音乐作业，忙着接待阿尔布赖特组织学生听她的讲座，忙着给我老板Levitt做研究给她老婆工作帮朋友在他们的freakonomics上签名，忙着看Neuroscience写我的8页生物论文，忙着跟Becker, Posner, Peltzman谈话计划明年Chicago Society的活动，忙着抽空和Chris一周见两三次并去他的frat social events，忙着catch up with偶然认识的Shoreland, Pierce不时时见到的朋友……
最近的blog总是这样子的流水帐，生活流下来都不知道自己忙什么。除了新加坡社团，其他什么Asian student association, Pan-Asia之类的都不是成员，除了和爹娘skype，也没啥时间看新闻，祖国的消息相当闭塞。直到最近身边朋友问“ do you have family in the earthquake area?" , 收到些facebook invitations, 才意识到地震的严重。上校内，上新浪，上WSJ，看到我的祖国，我们的受苦受难人民，我们倒塌的房屋，学校，我们鞠躬尽瘁的总理，眼泪禁不住就流下来了。眼泪中有悲痛，有心酸，有内疚。悲痛于我们祖国的多事之秋。心酸于失去家园亲人的老百姓。内疚于自己的无知，想过去在JC的时候热血澎湃，做梦都在想如何中华崛起，可现在极快的生活节奏似乎让我从一个极端走到另一个极端。
星期五的下午，心情很沉重。可是不知道自己能做什么，dinner还要赴约，晚上的concert也要去，星期六写paper，星期天复习midterm加工作，虽然知道自己似乎失去了方向，可是生活的节奏却停不下来，不知道从哪方面能够改变。盼着夏天来得时候能多找回些过去的我。
祈祷祈祷，灾区平安。
天佑中华！

chicagotribune

Seriousness is lost and fun is found in University of Chicago scavenger hunt

Low-level celebrity, Las Vegas and an unusual wedding are part of the mix

By Jeff Long

Tribune reporter

9:57 PM CDT, May 11, 2008

When you run into comedian Louie Anderson outside a Starbucks in Las Vegas, and you're a University of Chicago student seeking obscure and bizarre items during what's billed as "the world's largest scavenger hunt," naturally you're going to ask him to pose for a picture making an obscene hand gesture.

And if he's a good sport, which he is, he'll oblige. Which he did.

The university's 22nd annual scavenger hunt came to a close Sunday, a four-day race among nine teams to collect such items as half of a bowling ball or perform tasks such as "Mummify something. Properly, with documentation of each step."

David Pisano, 21, a senior majoring in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, enjoys the hunt so much that he came back to Chicago last year from studying abroad in Japan to participate. This year he scored the picture of Anderson flashing the ribald hand signal outside the Vegas Starbucks.

"At the University of Chicago, we work very hard," Pisano explained. "There's a lot of brain power going into academic problems. This allows us to take another kind of brain power and put it into frivolous, trivial but completely enjoyable tasks."

One couple got married Sunday in a "Bedouin Wedding feast," using what team members said was a legitimate Cook County marriage certificate, by a teammate who got ordained online: "To have and to scav, to honor and to scav, as long as you both shall scav."

"Well, I knew who she was," said Bruno Cabral, the 18-year-old freshman groom, referring to his teammate bride.

Their marriage was worth 75 points. And the rules clearly say bonus points for a real wedding. They also say bonus points for real Bedouins.

"Scavenger hunt brings out the love in everyone," said Priyanko Paul, the student who played the father of bride Clare Wolf.

The clues are often cryptic and can be open to interpretation. Judges spent Sunday morning interpreting how creatively the teams succeeded, while worn-out competitors swapped stories.

"All items on the list can be obtained and performed legally," the rules say. "It may involve some smooth talking, or it may involve something else, but it is all possible. The judges take no responsibility over your getting thrown into the clink."

In a new twist to the hunt, one member from each team had to show up outside the university's Reynolds Club at 3:30 a.m. Thursday.

"They must be alone, and they may not have any extraneous packages, bags or accessories," the teams were instructed. "And, since it will be late into the evening, the attire for this event is evening wear. Evening-wear with a bathing suit underneath."

That's when Pisano and the other eight team representatives were taken to Midway Airport for an early-morning flight to Vegas.

Besides looking for "D" list celebs to make obscene gestures, the scavengers tried to get pictures of themselves with contestants in the Miss Hawaiian Tropic International Model Search Swimsuit Competition. That's why bathing suits were needed.

"I got my picture taken with Miss Estonia and Miss Virgin Islands," Pisano said. "Which was immensely satisfying. They're international swimsuit contestants. I had no complaints."

To see the list of items and tasks for this year's hunt go to the Web site scavhunt1.uchicago.edu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Scavenger_Hunt
scavhunt1.uchicago.edu/lists/list2008.pdf    (The list)

Uchicago Scav Hunt

Snell-Hitchcock won by 700 points! FUCKIN YEAH (that's our cheers btw)
On top of other things, I got Gary Becker to witness me signing the organ donor form. How fabulous ;)

亲爱的老妈母亲节快乐！ 亲一口！
也祝天下母亲都快乐:)

考完全部的midterms, 感觉一般般，再加上想请的speaker Michael Dawson一直没有回复，机票价格又飞涨，这两天心情比较郁闷。
Chicago Society接班阶段，有很多事情要学，下周二我们的大嘉宾阿尔布赖特Albright就要到了，接待组织等等，麻烦但是还是很兴奋的。再过两天就scav hunt了，感觉自己还没准备好呢（因为作业没写完）但是这个uchicago最wild exciting的事情可不能错过。星期五和音乐班去看mozart写的歌剧，回来紧接着是某人某frat的cocktail. 从law library搬回来十几本Uniform Crime Reports, 还没怎么开始。

感觉日程已经满过我Laffer Curve的revenue max point。盼Memorial Day阿