— Huy Nguyen

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Here are the list of 27 things I think I’ll try to do before graduation. And you should do it, too!

Some of the things on this list I’ve already done or have been doing, some are not. But of course I’ll try to do as many as I could throughout the rest 3 years of my university life.

Here we go, straight from point 1 to point 27.

  1. Prepare an elevator pitch that sells YOU.
  2. Ask yourself: “What am I living for?” and try answering that in 1 sentence or 2.
  3. Don’t try to please everyone. There are so many bad and jealous people in the world. If they hate you, let them. The more successful you are, the more people hate you.
  4. Get into a relationship. College is the best time for a relationship. When you’re in it, don’t think about how you 2 are going be in future! (But don’t get into 1 just for the sake of not wanting to be single)
  5. Make friend with a professor; see how you can learn from him/her and how he/she can learn from you.
  6. Sometimes, send someone you love a postcard, even if he/she just stays 1-minute walking distance away from you.
  7. Keep a logbook. Paste it on the wall and fill in daily. Imagine looking at these 5 years from now?
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Work hard. Be nice to people, always be nice to people“.
She moved on, “When I was an chemist employee, I’m nice to everybody. I fetched my colleagues to work almost everyday, and I had to work up at 5h in the morning..”, she continued with other examples about keeping a smile, being the last person to leave office etc.

A hand raised “Were these things about being nice to people for a purpose? Is there a case that the person felt s/he was being made used of?”, I asked her.
It doesn’t matter. As long as people find you nice, they’ll treat you well back“.

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I want to share this to all of you: TED video: New insights on life and poverty by Hans Rosling.

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I happened to watch this interesting psychology TED talk of Dan Gilbert about synthetic happiness and found it somewhat new . It’s only 20 minutes but I spend around 1 hour to digest, that proves how bad my memory is…

Anyway, though it’s already been 3 years, the talk is really interesting to me. He introduced the concept of synthetic (artificial, human made) happiness, the kind of happiness that human made themselves when they didn’t get what they want.

I like his experiments, very logical. The results are surprising, also funny.

Nevertheless, I agree with one of the comments made by the viewer. He’s not exactly talking about happiness per se. He’s talking about happiness in one particular situation: when you didn’t achieve what you COULD HAVE got.

Anyway, I just jot down what I derive from the show:

  • What you get seems to be better than u thought about it.
  • When you had a chance to choose your path, you seems to regret about your decision (compared to NO CHANCE AT ALL)
  • And when you encountered something terrible, most of them time it turns out not as bad as it seems to be (you’ll feel relieve in a very short time later)
Oh in case you wonder why I’m writing this, I’m trying to improve my critial thinking and analysis.
Nice day people ;-)
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