Bolg, a project that surprised me a lot...

I have two blogs in Chinese, but before we started wirting our blogs, I'm still worried about it because I'm not good at free writing in English and I really hate time limited when I'm writing something. As you saw, the first post about skyscraper which we wrote in the lab is a mess, even myself don't want to read it again when I finished. But according to my personality, once I decided to do something, I will push myself to try my best. I made a big change from creating my own blog style. I want to mark it as mine, maybe a little bit special, but that is the only way make me feel that this is my field which I should be responsible. Change the appearance is not the only thing I want, create my own writing style and develop the ability to say what I want to say are the most important points that I try to get. At the beginning, it's not easy to write in a free way because I don't have enough confidence to use the language well. With continuing of this course, the skills which I leart from our practicing help me to get into this project deeper. It's getting easier to do free writing and I wrote longer and longer than before ( Although sometimes longer doesn't mean better...). And I found that it's very interesting to read and leave comments for other classments ( I even get more ideas when I read other's blogs). Blog is a real good way to show a person in a different way, and also a new way to communicate with each other ( I love this part!) I know that the best way to do blog is to do it as early as possible so that you can get more chance to show your idears to more people and discuss, but due to the stressful research project I didn't do it on time...However, I tried to leave comments for your guys early at least~~~As Janor said, I think that keep renewing our blogs is a very good way to practice our English and keep touch with each other, and I hope I can do it for a long time ( although I can not promise...:P)

At last, I want to say thank you to Lili, Adrianne and all of you guys! Advanced two is the most impressible course that I have never experienced before! I leart a lot and have done many projects which I don't believe I can finish alone without your helps. I'll keep the memory in my mind forever!To be the one you want to be because life is too short to be little! Keep hard working and our dreams will come true!

Second part, what a pity……

For me, second part of this course is built by research project...Look back, I found that I almost spent all the time on research project. Discrimination and Engineering the impossible are the only two unit I leart a lot. In discrimination unit, I was shocked by the amazing video which is "Class Divided" that I have already worte a lot about. Engineering the impossible is an interesting unit which made me have a feeling that it seems like I went back to the beginning of this course and studied very hard on superskyscrapers unit. Of course, it's not very difficult as first time, but I still have trouble with technique part. At this time, team work made a big contribution of understanding. We shared our information and helped each other figure out the part we didn't understand very well, and finally worked out all the problems. Although we didn't get the investing, but at least we got a lot of valuable information and skills about how to convince people in an efficient way. That's enough for me. It's very pity that because of the pressure of doing my research paper, I missed three interesting units, that's also what I leart in this course--eventhough I tried to do a good job on an important project, I still need to be responsible for other things of rest of the class. I realized how important they are...

Wai~~~t! I'm not finishing yet~~~!

My Dear friends, please be patient~~~I'm not finishing my post!
I checked all of your blogs, that's amazing! But I don't have time to stamp my footprints yet.
Therefore, please check your blog during next three days and concentrate my blog also.
I have more thing to say~~~~~!

Exam anxiety: I experienced and my self-treatment

At first, I have to say the brochure like "Exam Anxiety" is very helpful for students! Please find and get them, read carefully, not only when you have this kind of problems but also enjoy them when you are relaxing or just take a look when you are waiting bus or on the metro. Because it can help you understand yourself better in order to deal with your problems with confidence in a professional way.

I think I became a sressful person since my childhood, so of course I experienced exam anxiety, a lot. My situation is more likely "a disposition for anxiety" which is mentioned in this brochure. I'm a typical perfectionism. I always try my best on all the thing I decide to do. "Try my best" sound better than "do things perfectly", but in my case, it's even worse than the latter. The reason is, my definition of "try my best" is no limit. Every time even I have tried very hard, I'm still not satisfied with my work because I believe if I didn't do such things like XXXXX, I can do it better. Cautiousness is good, but too much will put me in trouble. My worst period is in high school.

High chool is a hard time for lots of people, but for me, it's not only to use a word "hard" can be described. Young people who are in adolesceny face a lot of change at that time, not only phycial, but also psychological. When such a perfectism as me face a huge amount of work, for sure it will bring a lot of problems. I try to figure out all the problems by myself and desire to find perfectly solution for all of them, but it's almost impossible. In China, there are too many students in one class so that a teacher is unable to take care all the students and we don't have a special institusion such as Healthy Centre to provide useful brochures like this. Based on my personality and a series of completely consideration, I also don't want to talk with my parents and friends to find the right way of finding solution. Therefore, once I was extremely stressful and alway felt anxiety no matter on study or other aspects. It leads to physically pressure such as headache, backache and even epilation by creating lots of tension. Fortunately, I found my own way for relaxation, which is reading. I read and thought a lot during that time and became a deep thinker with liberality and an open mind. And then I walked out of the shadow, although it took me three years to get through.

Now when I'm reading this brovhure, I find all my experiences are included whether symptoms,causes or solutions. In addition, there is another interesting point I find is interesting in my case. When I ecperienced exam anxiety, I couldn't (sometimes even unable) do anything but thinking about the serious situation, but if I do not begin to do something, things are going worse. It's very hard to break through my own defensive line, but I found that the most effective way to reduce exam anxiety is that you have to stop thinking and begin to do something.

That is my experience, I hope it can help you guys a little bit.

Presentation: present what you can control

I'm almost the last one to do my presentation for research project. Some of us think that to be the last one will have a lot of pressure, but for me , I prefer to be the last one because I really learn a lot from people who did presentation before me.

After a long hard working, I finally finished my research paper. Because I really need a good relaxation, I choose to do the presentation later. Maybe all my stress were used up during the period of doing research paper, so I am not as stressful as I was worried before. Actually, I am very enjoy all the presentation that you guys have done, listening to your presentation gave me a lot of ideas about how to do my presentation. Hehe, thanks a lot!:)

When I was preparing my presentation, I found some magic change that surprised me a lot. It may be caused by I put my research paper away for a while so that I really calm down and rethink about my topic. I found a lot of weak points about my paper when I use it to organize the notes for my presentation. I am still not satisfied with my paper so that I decided to do some change for presentation. Firstly, when I wrote my paper, I focus on technique parts. It's very hard to explain a lot of terminology in a presentation which only can last half an hour, so I have to change my keystone to some interesting and easier to be accepted information. I chose an disorder which is a perfect example to explain my topic, eventhough it means that I have to do more research work...Secondly, how to make my powerpoint become more attractive and useful is also a difficult work. According to my topic, it seems that there are not so much intersting and pertinent pictures which I can use for presentation. Anyway, I tried my best to make powerpoint clear and intersting so that it can help you guys understand better. In short, I think my presentation is not too bad although my pronuncition is still a perplexing part that drop my points, I have done my best.

From you guy's presentation, I really learn a lot. How to control the time, how to organize the information and bulid a logic that lead to a smoothly presentation, how to do an interesting introduction, how to handle the question period and even how to do a beautiful powerpoint... I really aprreciate your helpful work! Thanks again my dear friends~~~!