“It is the only thing makes us feel ALIVE”

Who am I

As shown in my linkedIn page, I spent 4 years (2016-2020) as an undergraduate student in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications majoring in Internet of Things (IoT). It’s a joint program with Queen Mary University of London.
During the summer of 2019, I was an iSURE student in University of Notre Dame. And in February 2020, I got admitted to the ESTEEM graduate program of Notre Dame.

What’s this blog for

Well, the blog is a place for writing something. My interest in literature was initiated early since childhood. And I used to ace in the writing part of Chinese courses. There was a time when I gave up writing after going to the college. Life became busy and all my study is about science. But I came to realize that writing is a good way to practice my ability to communicate and express. Also, blogging is a good way to record some technic skills during my studies, such as the code and dev tools.
It took me some time to organize the blog. Now I got a plan for the structure:

  1. Experience: It includes some review of the turning points of my life.
  2. TED: I am a fan of TED talks, I search for guide from those speakers every time I felt confused.
  3. Others are the projects that value to me.

How is it going

Officially, this blog started in May 2019. But the idea was generated in 2018, and I tried some different ways to establish it. In the future, I will keep updating in a regular and organized way. Articles will have a clearer format.

Tips for management

  1. 5W2H: What + Why + When +Where + Who + How + How much, suitable for innovation and planing.
  2. PDCA Cycle: Plan -> Do -> Check -> Act ->… suitable for Quality Maintaining.

Tips for expressing

  1. STAR: Situation + Task + Action + Result

Functions

  1. Feeds are arranged in reverse chronological order in my home page. (some posts are not visible but can be found in the archives)
  2. Categories and tags are organized.
  3. Algolia search is available.
    Ref: Algolia tutorial blog. Note the ACLs of my API key: search addObject deleteObject browse. It works on Safari and Google Chrome. (not friendly to Firefox)

Follow me

In the overview column of the right hidden field, there are my LinkedIn page and GitHub page. And the RSS subscription is available too.

Email: xiaxi9889@gmail.com