friend came

Everyday I arrived school around 9:30am and I went to mailroom first. It happened today morning when I was sitting outside the mailroom and reading some seminar announcement. I saw a post about my friend's talk at afternoon. When I was reading it, I heard a voice coming. It's a conservation by my advisor and my friend. Then they saw me.

My advisor asked me: so you are the classmate? I answered yes. We were from the same class when we were undergraduate. After we graduated with bachelor degree, I stayed in PKU to continue my graduate study and he came directly to usa and entered graduate school. He finished his phd in four years and now he has been working as a postdoc for two and half years. He is looking for a tenure track position in my depeartment and others.

When I think about him and some other classmates, I know that I am far behind now. I cannot say that I wasted three years for the graduate study at PKU, because I did learn something there. But I didn't work hard enough after I came here. That's why I am not good now. I need to catch up.

After the talk at afternoon, my advisor asked me again: so you were in the same grade before? I said yes. He was wondering why my friend graduated at two years ago while I am not yet. He told me: well, work harder then.

I will.