What a new world it is

I was very happy when I at last could follow a master program abroad. As graduate from physics engineering, my background academic is really in opposite direction with the knowledge base of the institution where I was working in. Then I tried to think over a win-win solution which could satify all parties involved. After pondering all concerned aspects, then I finally decided to follow computer engineering’s master program for my further academic degree. The main reasons of this decision were computer engineering provides courses and research interest which were very suitable with the core business of my institution and the department also provides the opportunity for student who holds bachelor degree of electrical and physics engineering (like me) to do research the that area.

I realized that the consequence of switching academic track to a new area was to face many new things which I never learnt before. Undoubtfully the consequence is becoming true. At the 6th month following master program at TU Delft, the burden to walk into unknown study area becomes larger. Everyday, when attending a class, the lecturer talked about terminologies and principles which are really new to me and I became more suffered because the lecturer assumed that all those required and supported knowledge have been studied in bachelor (or, if the assumption was considered to be wrong, the lecturer just give students the instruction to read a bunch of prerequisite reading material). Following are few terminologies I must understand in order to pass the courses: carry look ahead, parallel prefix network, parse tree, LALR, finite state automaton, victim cache, cover of cube, etc. (if you’re interested to know what it is, type the keyword on google).

But it doesn’t mean I will quit the fight and walk out the arena. I will do my best to complete the courses and get the degree at the end. Right now, I’m trying to change my mindset to see difficulties as challenges. When I succeed to do so, the remaining journey probably will be more insteresting and I don’t feel tortured, .

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