My 2017 — The Road of Transformation

This blog was originally written by Ryan Wu in Chinese on Dec 28, 2017: https://catalium.net/my_2017-cn/

In August 2017, I resigned from my post in Beijing as a product manager. Later, I came to the States to pursue the master degree. It was a solid year, it deserves a good summary. I’m writing the rewind at my apartment in Bellevue, WA. “Once recall the days in my secondary school time in China, then look at our living experience here in the US, it seems to be another lifetime,” said my friend who works at Microsoft HQ in Redmond.

The summary for 2016 was not written due to some reasons, but as the last two years were highly twisted and critical for me, I’ll cover 2016 in this 2017 summary.
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一名北漂产品的赴美留学路 — 2017 年度总结

English version available: https://catalium.net/my_2017-en/

今年 8 月,我辞去在北京的产品经理工作,来到美国华盛顿大学攻读硕士学位。这一年发生了很多事,非常值得记录和总结。我在美国华盛顿州贝尔维尤的公寓写下这篇回顾,用前几天一位在微软 Redmond 总部工作的中国朋友的话说,「回想起自己初中高中的日子,再看我们现在在美国经历的生活,恍如隔世」。

2016 年的总结因为一些事耽误没写,由于 1617 这两年一脉相承,对我来讲非常关键,就在这里合并到 17 年总结里了。

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