又是一年报税时，

Erin 快乐地向我通报了??? 的 TAX RETURN. 我们也开始各自对这笔飞来之财做出规划。。。

 

美国的个人收入税是按年收入算得。通常是每张pay check都扣一些，年底算总账，多退少补。

我们家的Finace Controller在税务普及讲座中告诉我，我们可以每月多扣一点税，年底拿TAX RETURN；也可以每月少扣一点，年底补交。很多美国人都是选择拿TAX RETURN, 因为拿钱总比付钱好。当时我尖锐地指出，只有不会算数的美国人才会做这种朝三暮四的事情。当然是补交好了，先用后还，不要交利息。拿TAX RETURN 说明自己的钱白白地被政府占用了。

由于我懒得去Accounting改每月扣税额，我们家也就这样过起了拿TAX RETURN的日子。

年复一年，每年年底，我们也开始快乐地憧憬TAX RETURN,快乐地朝三暮四...

也许这就是零存整取的乐趣？ 

 

As I said before, EE295-Technical Writing may be my last writing class in my life. And I got the only A- among all the writing classes till now. Also, I spent least time on this class among the all the writing classes.

 

There are some helpful hints:

 

1. Attitude is everything. Teachers of writing classes give grade based on impression. They give A to the 20%  remembered for good attitude. On the other side, they give C or D to the 20% be remembered for bad attitude. Unfortuanately, I was always on the 20% with bad attitude before.

 

2. You should be very happy for a lot of assignments. We have 40 students in one classes. Every student will submit 5 papers, totally 15 pages. How can the professor finish reading 600 pages carefully in one or two week?  If he would like to work that hard, he wouldn't be a professor.  So he just reads the first paragraph for each paper.

 

3. Format contributes 70% of your grade. A clean paper is always welcome when the professor has only 5 minutes for each paper. PC is a great tool to cover my poor handwriting.

 

4. Don't worry, everyone has the same headache. Just finish it, that's good enough.