月度归档：2006年04月

Which Major Should I Choose?

马上电院就要选专业了，身在韩国一点消息都没有，也不知道到底改选什么专业，迷茫阿。。。

刚才做了一些小小的统计，发现每个专业招的人数都很多，只有电科与测控招的比例较小，各占9.22%，8.63%，不过前者隶属EE，不得不考虑信息工程这个“庞大”的专业，后者貌似去了会被bs。。。

数据显示，cs的保研率较高，基本维持在23%左右，不过考虑到这个人数包含ACM试点班的牛人，估计普通班最终的保研比率应该和其他专业相差无几，7%左右，貌似这个比例也忒低了点吧，郁闷。。。

顺便统计了一下出国，这方面各专业似乎也相差无几，估计在9%–10%左右，不过很神奇地发现2003届、2004届貌似测控的出国率最高？？？晕。。。不过总的来说，这个比例跟保研比例一样，低了点。。。唉，学工科的命苦。。。

至于就业方面，以前似乎学长都推荐cs的就业是最好的，平均工资也最高，不过上学期无意中在网上发现一篇电院就业公司的统计，cs去的公司好像都挺一般的，还有一个去位育中学了（不知道去干吗的，难道是当计算机老师？-_-）感觉上EE的就业好一些，微软,Intel等500强的公司都有人去，虽然人数不少，不过EE的人数过于庞大，相对比例其实也挺小的。

统计了半天，实在觉得各个专业其实真的差不多，EE远没有上一届一边倒选择的那种巨大优势，cs貌似就业也不像说的那么好。真的不知道该选哪个专业好了，是按自己的兴趣走？跟着市场的需求走?还是跟着大多数人的选择走？感觉考虑过多的因素反而使得自己难以做出明确的决定，干脆掷骰子决定？？？

A Country’s Standard Of Living Depends On Its Ability To Produce Goods And Services

When I am abroad, I am deeply shocked by the huge difference in living standard between different countries. Westerns think the life expenditure here is low, so they enjoy their lives as much as they like. However, we Chinese can’t do. The high expenditure always forces me to care too much about everything only in order to save my little money.

What’s the reason of such a disparity? This may be due to the difference in countries’ productivity. It is common that people from developed countries usually enjoy high standard lives because these countries have high abilities to produce goods and services. There is also a wonder about Korea since it now becomes so modern and rich that even Korean people could not expect just a few years ago. To see why this great change happens, the answer is quite simple. It only spends 10 years for Korea’s productivity to double itself, and as a result, Korean people’s income consequently improves a lot at a high rate.

It is said that China also has a big potential to improve its economy since its GDP increases very fast and more and more foreign companies are taking more attention to this once ever poor country. Some just impute their unrichness on the huge population of China. However, this may not be true. In my opinion, China’s growing up, in most proportions, does depend on its huge population and therefore the huge market it makes. It does not rely on the improvement of productivity, which it may never lead to the essential high standard of life. Suppose if there is not a big population in China one day, what else can attract these foreign countries to invest and why should they continue to make so many efforts to enter this market?

Everyday we just think tall of ourselves without realizing how big gap there is between modern countries and ours, even though we perform low before others. Only when there is a chance for us to see the real world, can we find that there are really a lot of things we should do. Among them, to improve the productivity may be one of the most important and that is also why we talk so much about innovation today.