Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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Advanced Composition students are writing journal entries here in relation to articles they read online. They voice their opinions and connect with other classmates regarding their expressed viewpoints.
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Hi Azimi! This is Tuan Nguyen (Andy). I would like to take this class. I hope we will have a lot of good time in this class
Dear mam, the good article is for the the freshmen. I like best the quote: "You do your part... The sky is the limit". It helps us be more confident and set up right now, instead of worrying or thinking a lot. However, why we can not choose another article. For example, I like this one: "Obama vs. McCain. Thanks.
Surviving in the University .
At the first time I come to USCF , there are many things unacquainted to me .
It is too new of studying environment , it is so different from VN.
In VN , we schedule the studying time in a specific class ,so we just come to that class for studying.
There are some assignment for student s, we often do the presentation about a topic . Teaches give us chance to study by ourselves , a do research .
Activities-outdoors is not enough to experience . we create a workgroup to study and do activities together , especially many clubs for research.
And the life beside university is up to each students. They can find a part-time job , do volunteer in the library ... But I think we don't have much pressure of study.
Even when we don't do anything beside studying.
We prefer experience to education of knowledge , but they are not supported enough in the universities.
After read the linked article in daily Titan, I got many ideas about the life in university.
Itis very interesting that the life in American university is much more stressful than the university students in China. Because most students in China spend in most time in high-school.When we inter into an university, the life in university is relax. Meanwhile, I think if I want to be a successful student in American university,I must have a plan for my daily life in university. I am a careless person, so time management makes me a long time to fix it out. I agree that a good time management is an effective key to our university life. I think life in American university is like our time limited writing. We should try our best in a limited time. In addition, I totally support that a strong goal will make me effort more. If I have a goal, I will feel like I have so much energy to reach my goal. More over, it is important to know how to relax yourself. When I was in high school, I had felt too much stressful, so I didn't do well in my classes. Fortunately, I found a way to release myslef and became much happier. I hope to a good student in American university, and I hope attain more in future. Thank you Mrs Azimi to show us such a good article!
This article provides the necessary information to get started at the University.
I feel that how to manage the time and stress is the key of success. Time management is an important skill for college students because we need to control many different activities in a new environment. This article claims that student have to keep balance between study and play. I think that trying to do too much at the same time can lead to excessive stress, pressure, and burnout, so we should learn how to manage our time and stresses.
The importance of setting a plan, as early as possible, cannot be overstressed. The importance of having a goal now becomes even more important further future. If we have our clear goals, we would not waste our time and energy.
We have to show that we have learned or understood our relationships completely and have no difficulty with them. Any circumstances cannot affect to ability to our performances if we have strong self-esteems and goals.
I believe that we can survive CSUF successfully!
Hi this is Sam Cheng, return to school as a new fresh man is very excited and also challenge, I look so new and foby, when I first week in CSUF, I even do not know the direction, where is north, south, east and west, where is the classroom, where is here, why I should be here, many questions around my mind and annoying me at all, but I tell my self I can not afraid.
However, the student's job is been success at school, learning, study, work hard and participating, all this steps under the rules to completed, such as punctuality, creativity, motivation and aggression, you have to be self-motivated, you need to grow up , you need to deal with every tasks, all the steps help us to get mature, not only mentally but also physically.
We are lucky to get here for the world’s highest education, we need to cherish our opportunity and chance to learn, with this the two years, in which you have to both study hard and work hard, have turned you into excellent leaders with extraordinary minds; more importantly, you have become somebody more mature, somebody more understanding. I believe the future two years will be the most rewarding two years in your life.
About the Daily Titan
Today I read the article "Will you survive CSUF? Time management, goal setting, art of mastery -- necessary skills for college survival" on the Daily Titan online. I think it's really a very useful article and I learned many things from it.
To us new freshman, especially international freshman, we enter the university for the first time, and also in another country. Actually, we may often feel very nervous and sometimes even lose ourselves. We may feel very confused about what to do and how to do it. If we can not make our study and life in control, we may fail in everything and will not survive in the university while maybe we were often performing very well in our home country. So it's very important of us to know more about time management, goal setting, art of mastery -- necessary skills for college survival and other stratages about university life.
TIME MANAGEMENT
As we know, the university life is very busy and full of many different activities. And we will have more spare time for ourselves to use. However, how to make the most use of the time is really important. Sometimes we may find nothing to de and feel so relaxed, but sometimes we may also find there is no enough time for our homework and all kinds of activities. So, the management of our time is really very important. We can make some plans for our study and life. And then make some schedule. I think if we can make reasonable plans and then obey them, we will control our time well.
GOAL SETTING
Having a goal is always important in every period of our lives. And now, the present goal for us is about study. So, we students need to have some goals and then, struggle for them. If we finally achieve our goals, we may feel very happy and confident. And I think that different goals lead us to different life and all right goals will lead us to success.
THE ART OF MASTERY
It's a matter of fact that our age is the most complex age of our lives. We are all young adults and just get not far away from childhood for not a long time. However, at the special time, we need to face many different kinds of difficult things such as making friends, study, finding jobs and so on. We need to make many different relationships with different people like making good friends with someone or falling in love with a boy or a girl. However we may not familiar with skills of how to operate these matters, and sometimes may not do well in them. So that's way many students have problems in making friends and doing with different kind of relationships. So, the art of master is very important and useful to us. And after reading this article, I think I have learned more about it.
At last, I wish all the freshmen to survive successfully in university and have a happy time in the special time of our lives.
This article is very interesting and helpful for every student who enters to the college. There are three strategies that help students to cope the problems and survive in college under the circumstances. These include time management, goal setting and art of mastery. If the students use these strategies, I think that they can survive in college. I already graduated Bachelor degree in my country, and nobody or any article told me about how to survive in university. However, I learned to cope the problems by myself because the situations compelled me to survive in university and I had to do a good job. Since I am an only child, and my parents really want me to succeed in my life. In my opinion, I agree with this article about the first year in university. Freshmen usually have more problems about how to survive in college than other because they are not familiar to college. They just went over from high school. They have to adjust themselves. Also, I believe that if the students can cope the problems very well in first year, they will succeed and do a great job in college. In my experience the students may face the problems again when they are senior because they have to do a project or some job that usually not easy for finishing their college. I got very stress when I was senior because I will graduate or not depend on this year.
Dear mam,
Just remind you that my homework was on my blog. Could you go there and check it.
Thanks!
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