Up to now, I have absorbed knowledge and socialize with peers from schools 13 years or so. Certainly, I also experienced many kinds of classroom activities during the period. Among them, class instructions through reading and watching are my preferences. I do think merely being taught by professors or related information is not enough. We should read as wide and much more as possible. Only after reading it do we truly understand the content. Then it stretches out numerous and jumbled expertise from basic knowledge. Moreover, being taught by watching attracts me as well. I do not feel stressed out from this type of course. However, "discussion" is the least type I like. Since I am always lacking confidence in expressing my own opinions, the works I cooperate with each other are often seemed to be inefficient and not to meet our expectation. By the way, I really like a class activity held in my English composition course: adding subtitle to the film. As a matter of fact, it is quite interesting and appealing to me. We use our originalities and imaginaries to make it. Although the work we have done seems a bit ludicrous, this is the first time I do not feel oppressed to finish the academic assignment. I do really hope the similar type of task can distribute us to accomplish again.
As I run into some works too challenging to me, my strategy to cope with it is doing my utmost to finish it well. Perhaps, the process may be filled with frustrations and unhappiness, I would tell myself "no pains, no gains." And as an ancient saying goes, "as you sow shall you reap," we should take the challenges for granted and get used to it. All in all, I think I am eager to try and learn versatile skills and knowledge from the college life. However, sometimes I am to indecisive so that I do not know what the field I am suitable for. Despite the fact that I really pay emphasis on it, the results still do not meet standard. I hope I can rectify it briefly and pursue what I really love to.
To be honest, we juniors seems to be too old for such “fun” activities; I cannot quite recall any in-class activities that was fun in the first half of junior year except one, which we did in our C&C class (that is, Composition and Conversation, lest you don’t know what it means). In that class, each group of 2 to 3 people were given a website on which one can design a short comic story of 3 blocks, like that you see in the comic books. The website also provided some icons and characters and different shapes of conversation blocks for you to choose; all you have to do is just put the characters you like in the three blocks and fill in the conversation blocks with whatever words you please. The fun, but also challenging part is that you have to make a consistent, reasonable and humorous, meaningful story within three blocks. Though it was rather difficult, we had a good time in that class, and at the same time we did learn something.
回覆刪除Among so many kinds of classroom activities, I think like reading and listening most, because it’s effortless to do them in class, while discussion would be the last one I would choose, because it’s too tiresome. After all, laziness is a common trait of human beings. However, as a student, I have to admit that discussion may be the most efficient way of learning things. With a lot of people gathering together, you’re forced to brainstorm and exchange ideas in a short time, and because of peer pressure, you’ll try your best to come up with ideas that are as creative and convincing as possible. That way, students are bound to improve significantly.
When I encounter some difficult knowledge, what I’ll do depends on whether I like the subject or not. For example, when I was a sophomore, I was so mesmerized by Linguistics, which, according to my school brothers and sisters, is always the pain in their neck. I did find Linguistics difficult because for general students, it is a whole new field that we never step in. But I was so interested in it that almost at the break of every class, I would come up with a question or two and asked the professor or even challenged and discussed with him, and I found it very useful to my understanding of it. So I think my strategy is just not to feel ashamed to ask questions. And based on this example, I think I’m the kind of learner who would be utmost motivated when encountering thing I like while grow reluctant if that thing doesn’t interest me.