October 14 Diary

Recently, my life has been quite irregular. I went to bed at 2:40 AM and woke up at 8:40 AM, ending up with panda eyes. I still haven’t finished Qu Chen’s task… if I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have taken it on. It’s really frustrating. In the morning, I went to the library and found a book about Feynman that I had been looking for - “Do You Care What Other People Think?” Reading Feynman’s book is like having a stream of wisdom flow into my mind. Sometimes, I involuntarily laugh out loud at the interesting stories in the book. I read more than half of it in one sitting and was reluctant to leave the library. My dad brought me some clean clothes, which saved me the time of doing laundry. In a hurry, I rushed into the cafeteria, only to find that there was hardly anything left to eat. So, I just had a cup of honey green tea for lunch. Anyway, I haven’t had much appetite lately, and I didn’t feel like eating. I wanted to go back and continue reading, but I was too tired. In the end, I had to take a nap, which lasted for 2 hours. In the afternoon, our class had a basketball game, and we won. Later that night, we had a freshman education evening event, where a very impressive professor gave a lecture. However, I thought the lecture wasn’t very good. The professor was all over the place, and what we really wanted to hear was about his research projects. As a soil science professor, he could have shared more about his research and knowledge in that area. The freshman education could have been left to the psychologists. Speaking of which, I have to talk about the teaching at our university. Objectively speaking, the teaching at our university is not bad. Although our engineering college is not one of the best departments, the teachers we have are still very qualified. However, if we compare ourselves to Qinghua or Beida, there is a gap - our teachers only teach us knowledge, but don’t convey the latest developments in the field or its applications. What I’ve seen is that my math teacher occasionally connects the subject to philosophy and postgraduate studies. What do we need? Knowledge? Not just that - we also need a way of thinking, a perspective, which can’t be solved just by teaching knowledge well. The worst class I’ve attended at our university is the chemistry class in the animal science department, which is completely based on the textbook and lacks innovation. This is incomparable to when Professor Yan taught us chemistry competitions, where he would explain the applications and actual combinations of knowledge, as well as the development trends of the subject. Fortunately, I was just auditing the class, so I can switch to another one if I don’t like it. Now, I’ve searched for the basic chemistry class in the chemistry department and plan to attend it from next week, hoping that the teacher will surprise me.

At night, I watched the 10th Detective Conan movie - “Requiem for the Detectives”. It was disappointing… now, whenever I watch any Conan movie or TV show, I just can’t find the same feeling I had before. Back then, when I watched “Countdown to Heaven”, I was moved by Haibara’s sacrifice, and when I watched “The Lost Ship in the Sky”, I would cry in front of the screen. However, I still love Conan and will make time to watch it. Conan is no longer just a cartoon to me; many of its stories are linked to my childhood memories. Over the past 10 years, I’ve grown from an elementary school student to a university student. During these 10 years, I’ve learned to think carefully about everything, just like Conan. It can be said that my understanding of life, my pursuit of truth, and even my interest in chemistry and biology are all largely due to watching Conan.

That’s all for today’s diary. I originally wanted to watch “Anne of Green Gables”, but it was borrowed by someone else. It’s getting late, so I’ll go to sleep soon.