Well, I was just informed that my first publication in a scientific peer-reviewed journal has been accepted. The name of the journal is Journal of Applied Crystallography of the International Union of Crystallography. The title is VCIF2: Extended CIF Validation Software and my coauthor is Prof. Herbert J. Bernstein.

Exactly one week from today is the last day of my last semester at Dowling. They say I will be graduating after that. The situation is pretty calm. I do not have tons of papers and finals to think about. I have only one paper for Const. of Personal Identity and a take home final for the same class, a small project for Design with Computer II, and a final for Intro to Spreadsheets and VBA. For the POCSR, I have a working project – iDiet. No big deal. I plan to finish everything by the end of this week, so that I am free next week.

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  • "The highest good is not to seek to do good,
    but to allow yourself to become it.
    The ordinary person seeks to do good things,
    and finds that they can not do them continually.

    The Master does not force virtue on others,
    thus she is able to accomplish her task.
    The ordinary person who uses force,
    will find that they accomplish nothing.

    The kind person acts from the heart,
    and accomplishes a multitude of things.
    The righteous person acts out of pity,
    yet leaves many things undone.
    The moral person will act out of duty,
    and when no one will respond
    will roll up his sleeves and uses force.

    When the Tao is forgotten, there is righteousness.
    When righteousness is forgotten, there is morality.
    When morality is forgotten, there is the law.
    The law is the husk of faith,
    and trust is the beginning of chaos.

    Our basic understandings are not from the Tao
    because they come from the depths of our misunderstanding.
    The master abides in the fruit and not in the husk.
    She dwells in the Tao,
    and not with the things that hide it.
    This is how she increases in wisdom." - Lao Tzu (老子)