It is interesting to observe through those photos how I am getting old over time, but of course something almost never change, for example, my hair style. That is actually because I am extremely bad at doing any hairstyle, and I look awfully like a boy with short hair, so the options left are the simplest and easiest: polytail or straight long hair.
Those photos were taken for various official use, such as school ID, department record, website, passport, etc.
Warning: I do not necessarily look like me in those standard big-head photos, as told by others:
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| Spring, 1996 | Spring, 2000 | Fall, 2000 | Fall, 2002 | Fall, 2003 |
Scanned from my Tsinghua University Student ID |
Before coming to US
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First came to CMU. Photo used on ETC website |
Just entered the Computer Scinece Ph.D. program at CMU |
My personal website photo - cropped from a bigger size photo taken at Singapore |
My family was frequently moving during my childhood, so the question " where are you from?" or "where did you grow up?" is always a kind of difficult for me to answer in brief. My hometown is in Hunan Province, I was born in Guizhou Province, and now my family is in Haikou, the capital of Hainan Province. Hainan is a beautiful small island in the very south of China, often deemed as "Eastern Hawaii". I went to college (Tsinghua University) in Beijing and spent four fabulous years there.
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Fall, 1998 |
May, 2000 |
May, 2000 |
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| Beijing Botanical Garden | Beijing Yonghe Lama-sery | New east gate of Tsinghua University campus | |
| Thanks to Tsinghua's strict physical exercise requirement, I was at my highest weight during that time. | I seemed very serious, but why? I don't remember. | A new gate, with a new graduate. | |
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| Spring, 2000 | Spring, 2000 | Summer, 2000 | June 2000 |
| Haikou Holiday Beach | Haikou Golden-ox Hill Park | Haikou Wanlv Garden | Graduation photo of the whole class J62 (Computer 62) |
| The sentence on the beach: You are the most ... girl on the beach. | See that golden ox on the hill in the far back? | Photo taken by my father, an amateur photographer. I had to keep my pose for ten minutes before the photo was taken. | A typical engineering major class in Tsinghua University - count how many girls in our class. |
