Sometimes, you will meet strange people here or there. Most of the time, people will ask you how long you have been here. This is my fourth year. This is my updated answer for the people who asked me recently. This anwser will keep unchanged for one year. During this time, I will not need to calculate for this kind of question.
But I begin to ask myself what I did or accomplished for the past three years.
Finished all of my course work. But how much do I still hold the knowledge for them? Barely. I hate I say so even though my grades were not bad at all. But it is the truth. The real regret for myself is that I can't go back to have myself study not just for grades, but for knowledge. Things behind this is that at that time I didn't know what I was going to do actually or I never thought about I was going to make money out of this knowledge. I never image that I am going to be in this profession for my rest of life. It is kind of strange in other's eyes. I image I will have a career which is modern and fancy, like the modern ladies in the drama or movies, but don't have a specific idea. So I just went along the semesters by taking courses and doing my research without a specific aim. I am smart, but with no directions.
I know I can be better. Better understanding of my major, broader awareness of knowledge, better spoken english, better me.
Good things for me are that I realize I need to arm myself with something and I am doing those.
