At 1pm Rachel and I visited anna very briefly before she goes off to taiwan until the middle of next month on a missions trip. Later I made a trip to costco and some stores in vacaville. In the evening my family went to the arboretum for a really long walk around the whole thing. The weather was nice and not too hot.

You might notice an extra person in the photographs with my family.

We have a girl staying over at our house for the week. She's the daughter of a friend of my parents, who needed a place to stay for a week before going back to china on friday. She just finished her freshman year here, but is half a year older than me.

Here's one of the biggest secrets for academics I still haven't shared:

In the beginning of my college career at UCD, I was browsing around the computer science department website when I stumbled upon a student website. The guy was a CSE major just like me, and on his page was a link to his unofficial transcript so far. Since he had taken all the classes I would have to take over the next two years, I thought it would be good to see how he did.

As I looked down quarter after quarter of grades, I was amazed at how well he was doing... His only flaw was in classes like History, where he got a B+.

That day, I saved his unofficial transcript on my computer and bookmarked it as "The Lee Transcript". I don't know his full name anymore, but only remember that his last name was Lee.

Every quarter at UCD, whenever I needed any motivation to work hard and do well, I opened up this transcript and looked at how Lee did. I would study his transcript a little and suddenly become motivated again to push onwards.

It's kind of weird, but it definitely worked for me. Hopefully some of you can find it helpful... Haha.

The Lee Transcript