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Towards PhD in UK: Applying for LUMS
May 11th
最近真是时来运转。前阶段GRE的厄运终于过去了。最近好事儿是一桩接着一桩来，先是通过了中山大学的博士入学考试初试，接着是通过了雅思7分考试。而这两天我又得到个好消息。Lancaster University同意给我提供未来三年（四年）的博士学习奖学金。显然，这是一个非常不错的消息。要知道英国的奖学金非常少，全额奖学金更少。更不用说我的专业，Accounting & Finance，这个商科中的热门专业了。所以说，如果你要问我为什么可以拿到全奖，那我的答案只有两个字：运气！
Some Words For My Application: A Review
Jan 31st
近阶段总是在忙活博士入学考试的报名和海外研究生院的申请工作。说实话，GRE的考试失利还是给我造成了不小的心理阴影。这不得不让我相信我家乡的谚语——“不听老人言，吃亏在眼前”。现在想来，可能是我当时也过于inherent了，Kuan的说法并没有错，GRE的Second Attempt的确是需要Confidence的，而且也是Consequenced的。无奈，我是个学会计的学生，成本-效益原则已经深深映入了我的脑海。如果说把托福考试和GRE考试仅仅当作学习英语的学费，似乎有点心有不甘。毕竟，作为学费，这个价格似乎有点高。更何况，对我这个穷光蛋而言。
Reading in Middle Night: Feel About Silence
Jan 25th
Due to the difference on the timing patterns at home and that on campus, I prefer reading at night these days. Unfortunately, the books that I am now reading is not a fiction, or some poems, but the electronically versions of textbooks, which are corporate finance, basic econometrics and accounting theory. All these books are written in English. In fact, I should have found some Chinese versions to read, which may accelerate my reading. But the question comes. That the books are pretty expensive, purchasing all these books can be a great bill. Then, to save up some money, I shall keep on reading the original version.
Goodbye! North America and My American Dream!
Dec 3rd
Quite a long time I denied all the requests from my heart of writing a post in English, the reason can be quite simple. The failure on GRE directly abandoned me the American dream; what’s more, it deeply hurts my passion to my future life in years. In the past days, weeks and months, again and again, I have tried to imagine my life, a big house, a tenured position. But now, everything is gone. And, my purpose of learning this language has become invalid as well. Even till now, I don’t think the English can be useful for my graduate study in China, since most PhD candidates in the major of accounting are without good competence of foreign language, and such faults are also retained by most professors as well. in contrary, such competence may cause envy from colleague sometimes.
English Learning: Quite a Long Way to Go
Nov 2nd
It is quite amazing that I found an article that was written by myself about five years ago on some suggestions of how to improve the English to the young students. It was invited by my dorm mate Ding who used to be the dean of the department of study, the student union of dept. of Software Engineering and it was scheduled for a presentation. But I was not that confident to take it ( I was of no experience on lecturing at that time), and then it was posted as printed.
GRE: A Temporary Farewell
Oct 25th
GRE, a famous exam that is required by most graduate schools overseas, ranging from top universities like Harvard and MIT, to some ordinary schools, carries the dream of the youngsters who are willing of going abroad. Since its first in mainland of China in 1980s, millions of excellent young students and scholars has started their career. And for me, within the new generation of the dreamers, comes into the team as well with the first step of preparing for TOEFL and GRE.
Cold or Flu: Be Seriously Distinguished
Oct 5th
For those who take English as a foreign language and seldom stay in a native language environment, we may find many mistakes when speaking English. Here is quite a common example that we always confuse the word of ‘cold’ and ‘flu’, what’s more, very few English teachers put this in their explanation that where are the differences. Quite occasionally I get a table from the official site of Timaflu when google for it.
Postgraduate Student: Shall We Take It?
Sep 26th
最近总是有很多师弟师妹在问我是不是要考研，事实上，我很难回答这个问题。毕竟，我已经是一个研究生即将毕业的人了。同时正如我的导师所言，所有的决定只能是由自己来做的，而不是由别人可以代劳的。所以呢，我也只能对两者进行比较，却不能代替本文的读者来做出是否读研的决定。我坚信，命运掌握在自己手中，而不是被别人所掌控。同时，鉴于我对会计专业更了解，我在下文中的分析多以此为例展开。
Accounting Theory: Some Books I Read
Aug 31st
时间过得还是很快的，转眼间，研究生生涯的三分之二时间已然逝去。借着今日的凉风习习，反思我过去两年所读过的书，其实还是不少的。尽管我并没有从头到尾完整的读过其中任何一本（我觉得读书更多的是选择），但是我还是打算就我读过的书来做一个总结。今天我们先做的主要涉及会计理论方面。
Knowledge Obtaining: Solitude or Interaction?
Aug 2nd
Nowadays we are facing the difficulties of mastering the knowledge that is either required by our daily job or living. We need the knowledge the conduct the way that we work, we need that to fix the errors that we make, and we need that to help explain the problems that we meet. Some scholars argue that people should make full efforts to master knowledge as much as possible that they can acquire, and some others do not agree with that. But is it that necessary for us to master all the knowledge that we can acquire? The answer is obviously no. In fact, we can obtain the knowledge we want through the interaction with others as well.
Peter J. Gu is a now a postgraduate student with the major of accounting, focusing on the investor's protection, corporate governance and disclosure tacit in emerging markets.
