6.18SHyymm1000P---有惊无险(zz)
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标 题: 6.18SHyymm1000P---有惊无险
发信站: 瀚海星云 (Sat Jun 19 22:13:40 2004) 站内信件 WWWPOST
先预祝itsME 2Kpass!6.18同样碰到yymm,现在想来都后怕,和yymm纠缠了那么久,问的问题
倒是很出乎我意料之外.突然怀疑她以前是不是就是统计专业出身的,因为似乎她言谈间对统计很懂的样子,我每次一说废话或者想含混过关时,她就说:you don't answer my question.或者说,I know what...is, but I want to know...,吓得我小心肝扑通扑通得跳:(
先说我们一行7人+alohahong(后勤服务,呵呵),都在美气,早上6:30排队,今天人还比较少,
我们算是排得靠前得了.大概8点半交了材料,9点取了指纹.我们7人都分成了好几队.我和我师兄女朋友在一起,不过最后和我师兄那一队会合在yymm处, 大概10点过我师嫂在yymm那里很快就pass了,我隐约还听到yymm说绵阳离成都有多远什么的,心想她真是了解得多啊,结果马上我上场后证明了我得想法.
以下M:me,Y:yymm,问题可能记得不太清了,大致是那些意思:
M:Good morning, Madam!
Y:Good morning.How are u?
M:Fine.Thanks.
Y:So you will go to US to pursue your statistics PHD. Why PHD?
M:I think the meaning of PHD study is to train my thoughts, so I can device new methods to solve new problems in the future
Y:What's your interest?
M:Statistical Modeling, a big area in statistics(被打断)
下面的问题让我乱了阵脚,开始了签证的苦难历程:
Y:so what is xxx in statistical modeling in xxxx?
M:(不明)pardon?
Y:what's the fault in statistics to xxxx?
M:(han,没听清)I am sorry, I am nervous
Y:拿起笔在我得ds表上写下那几个单词,原来是assign value to data,并且开始讲:it's
very easy english item in statistics, your are a student in statistics, you don't know this?
M:(狂han,确实太紧张了)well, sometimes the results we get is not perferct..
Y:u don't answer my question, I mean what's the fault in statistics to assign
value to data.
M:fault to assign value to data? sometimes data is missing when we collect it.
...(很紧张所以一直不明白她的用意是什么,直到要签完了才开始反应过来)
Y:(摇头,我更ft了)you don't understand what I say. I want you to say something
about the fault in statistics@##$% linear regression(就听懂这个了)
M:there will be variance when we do linear modles, because the model we choose
may not fit the data well....
Y:That's very general in statistics, do you know how do deal with these proble
ms?
M:We can repeat our experiment several times so we can reduace the variance.
Y:that's general. anything else?
M:(实在想不起说什么好,又不想冷场)well, statistical modeling is......(被打断)
Y:I know what statistical modeling is! what I want you to tell me what is the
fault in statistical modeling!(这下终于明白了)
M:Can I give you an example?
Y:You can say anything in any way but must around my question. If you don't an
swer my question, I will think you don't know what you are talking about!
M:(很难过,觉得今天我们几个中就我要被拒了,不过反正也无所谓了)well, my current
work focus on categorical data analysis, it's a statistical modeling method,
sometimes the result we got is not ideal(其实这里是在一定条件下的,当时我还想了
一下,但是不知道怎么表达,还好她没再问), so we can add weight, you know(yymm点了下头)to some factors, so we can improve our model.
Y:So do you think there is any problem with the improvement?
M:(还好这个东东以前申请学校时想过的)yeah, the weight we choose may be这下又惨了
,我本来想说主观,可是在这头上打死也想不起来了,所以我看着她,巴巴地说"主观"
yymm笑了笑,很诡异地在我的ds表上写下objective几个字,我当时哪有时间去反应,以为
这肯定就是主观的意思了,于是:so sometimes the weight we choose may be objective, and the result we get may be objective
Y:(又笑开始中英文夹杂给我讲)no,objective是客观的意思,主观是subjective
M:(狂han)sorry, so the weight may be not objective,the result may be subjective
Y:(satisfied)That's enough! that's what I want to know!
总算松了口气了,看到希望了。她开始用中文给我聊天:
Y:你是不是觉得今天这都不像签证面谈而像专业考试?(看了下表好像说了句我们讲了多久
,听不清)
M:(smile)
Y:你知道为什么我对统计感兴趣么?因为我统计学得不好,you know@$%^ economics(好像
在讲她学什么东西之类的,讲的很快)there is a joke about statistics in US(突然又不说了)我当时心里那个怕阿,我还以为她不懂,原来她学过的,还在那里谦虚!
Y:(可能突然想起还没问归国计划)what's your plan after graduation?
M:back to USTC and find a faculty position
Y:why?
M:my especially interested in spatial statistics, a branch in statistical mode
ling, and pollution and epidemic like SARS is serious in China. Spatial statistics can do quantitive analysis in these area, so what I will learn is what China need.
Y:you know you interest is very applicable in industry. so why not work in a c
ompany?
M:well, I want be a researcher, and I like the environment and academic atmosp
here in university, not so many constrains like in other institutes. also, there are vacations.
Y:(把我的收据拿出来)so I can tell you the joke.(又开始中英文夹杂了)世界上有三种
lies, the first kind is lies, the second kind is big lies,大谎话,the third is statistics.
M:Why?
Y:because you can choose one model to get the result of yes
M:and you can also get the result of no
Y:yes, that's according to the model you choose
然后就开始congratulation了,还叽里呱啦说了一大堆,大致是让我去美国好好学统计之类
.我在那里不停地thanks,她扔处一本书,我正想走
Y:which university you will go?
我想怎么还没完啊,正准备说,估计她从我的ds表上看到了
Y:oh, Iowa, so, good luck in Iowa!
M:Thanks! Have a nice day!
然后就去等护照了,在那里碰到师嫂她说我签了很久,我顿时有种劫后余生的感觉。