Hello, World!
Hey buddies, this is Dean’s speaking.
Actually I’ve planned to start writing something on my Medium last year. However, I’ve been drained by the virtual project from S&C and other courses with heavy workloads during my fall semester, and the lecture “Data Structure and Algorithm” almost took me half of the time spending on learning in the next semester(seems like a nerd and that’s also true). I just didn’t have time to make a complete plan about my Medium, and thus there’s no any content till now lol.
After leaving PwC Consulting Firm in June I started to put the preparations for GRE in my first place. But I found it difficult to stay in front of my desk and gaze at my textbooks or iPad for more than an hour(I thought it might be the COVID-19 period that changed the way we received knowledge in classes). For me, it’s nearly impossible now to be in that situation before college.
So, besides thinking how to refocus, I just come up with another way to solve: put some tasks that is completely different with study between every learning periods. And writing Medium posts is one of that kind of task.
As for the catalyst to have thought about writing Medium, I have no idea why’s that. After all, I’m not the guy with prominent internship experiences, excellent academic performance, concise and tender writing skill(obviously), or a dream to be famous. But I realized something during that year I attended in the S&C Marketing Club:
There’s no need to be exceptional to become a giver.
With true geniuses and prodigies from every fields around me, I became silent and felt like a fool after getting into college. Worst of all, that goddamn self-esteem totally strengthen the agony after failure. This environment further deepens my “imposter syndrome” to doubt my competence toward anything and every chances in front of me. In that situation, afraid of making mistakes gradually becomes the new norm of me, and it also eliminate the courage to be a giver.
But I realized that “interaction” is more essential to sharing than “correctness.” Sharing is a process that we turn our personal experience and perception into an unique story to tell. That is to say that even we have been through the same things, the variances of family, background, education, personality, and the like all makes the content we share become completely different. It also gives me some courage to share when I know that the things I share might be the resources for the taker to become the next giver.
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So, I viewed the things I’ve gone through and generally draw the category for the content I expect to have in my Medium:
Tool Application
I have some experiences about using packages related to data analytics and machine learning in Python, and I also spent two weeks to self-learn Visual Basic for Application(a kind of programing language) and take charge of a project for up to six months. I thought it might be a cool theme to figure out tool-learning for dummies or brief instruction(and makes me feel that the knowledge is somewhat useful). Also, if time permitted(or if I’m not lazy), I’d like to try using Obsidian to refine my course notes. Maybe I would collect some of the relative info to share with y’all.
Marketing Knowledge
Includes “cases of marketing” and “marketing theory”. As the director of project in S&C Marketing Club, I thought it’s better to promote and share some knowledge about marketing field 👍.
Academic knowledge
Apart from the marketing knowledge mentioned above, I will also organize some information or documents from the lectures I attended or investigations I did before(includes some of the issue I’m interested about). e.g. Currency and Banking, Operation System, Data Structure, etc. The works to recollect those documents also serve as a chance to review those courses.
Travel For Dummies
That is because some of my friends asked for my schedule to Tokyo this winter before I departed. After posting my pics on instagram, more people asked me to put those posts into a collection. So I decide to write something about my trips. After all, I don’t expect to see my Medium only with those tedious posts about academics and something formal. Oh, by the way, there’s also some content about restaurants in my favorite list. So stay tuned to see what’s coming up!
Yup that’s the current plan for my Medium.
Thanks y’all to watch something boring here, and hope it won’t take too long to see you guys.
