Love computing

This Monday, Mr. Namazie asked me what I wanted to learn in NUS except engineering. If he hadn’t asked me purposely, I would have been silent for the whole day. But now that he asked, “computing.” I answered briefly. Then after class, Ye Mei and Xiangxin asked me in surprised tone, “Do you really want to learn computing? It’s very hard!” “Yes,” I answered, “I like it.” I have been in love with computing before coming here and I love it even more after arriving here.

I can still remember that when in Xi’an Jiaotong University, I always studied quite hard until the day I knew I was accepted by MOE of Singapore and would attend NUS or NTU later. However, the following 29 days, I dropped out of all courses except the computer course. I continued listening to my professor’s lectures on computer history and operating system, network architecture, data base management system and multimedia systems and got great happiness in them, while my classmates thought they were so boring and beyond comprehension sometimes. How did this befall me that all of a sudden I began to love computing? I don’t know. Anyway, I gradually got aware of the existence of a wonderful digital world. Although my knowledge is such a little, it’s enough to cause my passion for computing.

One important reason for my increasing love to computing is that my laptop, which I bought in Singapore last December, has had several big problems in only one and a half months. Every time I had to find someone to repair it for me. It’s so annoying, troubling others and wasting my time. Just these days, my computer cannot start for the second time. There is something wrong with its memory. So I have to call the support hotline for help after my senior and I tried a lot but finally failed. That is also the reason why on Monday I didn’t want to speak. I was worried about my computer.

Another reason is the fight between China and Google, which lets me realize again that China is only a developing country, no matter how well she behaved in the economy crisis. China needs continually advancing and I know I can make contributions to it by becoming a skilled computing specialist. It doesn’t mean that I’ll become a hacker, though Google claimed that it was attacked by hackers who followed Chinese government’s command. What I want to do is only protect my motherland. You may don’t know it but more than one hundred China’s government websites were attacked within three days. The numbers shocked me when I first saw it. Almost at once, I determined that I must learn computing very well, not only for myself but also for China.