Happy New Year! Goodbye 2022, welcome 2023. This year has brought me many surprises on the ordinary track. Let's take a look back at the things worth recording in 2022.
🧑🎓 Academic Research#
In the first half of the year, I worked on a paper about differential privacy with my senior. It was his first paper after changing research directions and my first paper to work on. We both made some significant mistakes, which ultimately led to my senior giving up on it the day before the Infocomm deadline. It's a pity.
In the second half of the year, based on my previous literature review and my understanding of the research progress in this field, I tried to come up with my own topic. I have to say that doing research quietly really tests one's perseverance. At the beginning, I was full of hope. As the theory and experiments became clearer, the questions that needed to be clarified or proven were like bubbles in a soda, popping up one by one. But the holes I dug, I had to fill them myself no matter what.
In November, I moved from the fifth floor of the computer building to my advisor's office on the third floor. Usually, I'm the only one enjoying this room, and occasionally my senior will come.
💻 Digital Equipment#
I didn't spend much money this year. The only major digital item I updated was the iPad Pro 2021 12.9. After purchasing it, I successfully sold my old iPad Pro 2018 through the SEU second-hand group, so I didn't actually spend much money.
The new iPad has excellent screen quality, with top-notch color gamut, color accuracy, brightness, and contrast among similar products. It also has a 120Hz high refresh rate, which makes it very comfortable to look at the screen. It is equipped with the powerful M1 chip, and it feels even smoother in daily use than my laptop (Macbook Pro 2018 13-inch). In order to fully utilize this chip, I also purchased and downloaded the famous video editing software LumaFusion on the iPad. The few editing operations I know can run smoothly on the iPad, and the final export is also fast. I used the iPad to complete the editing, exporting, and uploading of a video.
The Road from the Lab to the Dormitory_Bilibili
I originally planned to make the following video on the iPad, but because I needed to use transparent Scathach animation material for the progress bar, the transparent material became opaque in LumaFusion. So in the end, I used my desktop computer with Pr to make it.
Arknights 3.5th Anniversary Limited Pool 300 Draws_Mobile Game Popular Video
In addition, in March of this year, I bought Airpods 3 to replace my old Airpods.
- I have been using my MBP for four and a half years. Although I have always been longing for the new M1 Pro 14-inch MBP, I ultimately didn't have the courage to buy it (it's just too expensive). Maybe I should consider a lightweight Windows laptop for my next one. It would be great if I could get one from my advisor.
- I ordered the new Airpods Pro in October, but after being told by LXC that it was an impulsive purchase, I decided to refund it because I had only used my new earphones for less than half a year.
- My Apple Watch S5, which I have been using for three years, is still going strong. I hope to update to a new Watch in 2023 at my own expense because the Watch has brought about significant changes in my physical health. Although it may be attributed to my own efforts.
Although I am still using the Apple ecosystem, I am a bit tired of the superiority of some Apple products. People should not be bound by the ecosystem.
💪 Physical Health#
There is no doubt that my physical condition has improved this year. In the first half of the year, from March to June, in less than three months, I insisted on jumping rope and fast walking for half an hour every night. My weight successfully dropped from 65 kg to 57 kg, and my waist size decreased. LXC felt itchy when he saw it. When we first arrived at SEU, we were both about the same weight. Seeing that I became thinner than him made him feel uncomfortable. He even jokingly called me a "traitor to the fat otaku class." Since then, there has been a class contradiction between us. However, in the second half of the year, due to the gradually colder weather, I didn't persist in exercising, and my weight went back to 59 kg.
Against the backdrop of Covid, I have been staying in the dormitory/home this year without any additional outings, and I have never been quarantined due to close contact/positive cases. After the national epidemic prevention policies gradually relaxed, I finally contracted the new coronavirus in the last ten days of December. Fortunately, the strain I was infected with was less severe, and I recovered after a fever for less than two days. Although I feel that my respiratory system is not very strong and I occasionally cough without any diagnosed illness, the virus did not take advantage of my weak points, allowing me to breathe fresh air smoothly. Now that the epidemic prevention policies have been relaxed, I can only rely on my own immune system to resist the invasion of various mutated strains of the virus.
💗 Emotional Life#
The biggest gain of 2022 was meeting ZY. She was my classmate in the first year of high school, and we hadn't seen each other for almost 9 years. However, she hasn't changed much over the years, sometimes gentle and sometimes lively and cute. On May 15th of this year, she added me on WeChat, and in late October, she confessed to me. At that time, I was somewhat surprised and didn't know how to react because I had gotten used to being single and never thought that someone would consider me so important. I rarely fantasized about what a life with someone else would be like. In any case, it is a very happy thing for me that someone likes me. I remembered that I had some feelings for her during the happy and short time in the first year of high school, and now my heartstrings have been touched. I really don't want to miss her again.
Before I left school and went home in December, I secretly went to Hangzhou to see her for two days, which can be considered as the moment when our online relationship became real. The result is: we are together now, she is my girlfriend~
😃 Other Wonderful Memories#
🎬 Favorite Anime#
- Spy Family
- Lycoris Recoil
🎵 Top Three Favorite Songs#
- 花の塔: Ending theme of Lycoris Recoil
- The Adversors Alliance Main Theme: Insert song of the TV series "The Advisors Alliance"
- 恶魔の子: Ending theme of Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2