The first semester in PKU

 It is ten days since I arrived home. How time flies. One semester in PKU has passed. At the very first two months, I wasted a lot of time. I played computer games, I talked with friends online, I took part in the Top 10 Singers' Contest, I acted in a drama in the celebration evening of our college's foundation, I made a lot of new friends, I ... Maybe the word fickleness could best express my mood then. During that period, there were so many ideas flooding into my mind, and I was a little messed up. I started to doubt my original aim, to make numerous plans for the future, to ... waste the precious time.

Luckily, when over half of the semester passed, when most of the activities ended, I gradually calmed down. To be frank, I regretted spending too much time in those activities. It was time to get down to the courses. I almost had got all my attention to study when the 12.9 chorus contest came, followed by the New Year party. Both the study and the rehearsal needed time. So I made detailed plans every week, trying my best to get balanced. Indeed, I was very very tired during the last month. The most laudable thing is that I wrote the entire program, which support file transmission based on bit-torrent protocol, as the final project of the course Advanced Internet Programming. Actually, that course is all about the network programming in Unix/Linux environment. I became to love Unix/Linux, with the programming in C++.

The first semester has passed. Objectively speaking, I gained much more than I lost. Friendship, knowledge, joy, etc. What comforts me most is that I really get improved. The only unhappy thing is that I should have improved more. In a word, it slows down my steps toward my goal. Anyway, I will work harder to achieve it on time.