The winter quarter has ended, and there will be a week of time-off until the spring quarter starts. But there will not be any free time for me because I will start helping my adviser on his research. Hopefully I can demonstrate my ability and he can let me continue for PhD. I will need to read a lot of the background information about the project. This is like the only shot I have at getting into the PhD program. Apparently finding faculty support is much harder than I thought (my bad, I under estimated it). Poor economy put financial constrains on everything, including research funding. Hopefully my adviser can get more funding soon.
Besides that, I have another project on my own. I am looking into using Linux at home. I would like to replace Windows by Ubuntu. For some reasons I always think that the graphical interface of most Linux distributions look better than that of Windows. Not to mention Linux is free, together with a wealth of free applications. Now I am running Ubuntu in virtual machine (VirtualBox and VMware) inside Windows. This will let me familiarize myself with the Linux environment, and evaluate the practicality of using Linux at home. Much to learn for sure, and I will always have something to do.
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