The Reason Why We're So Busy When The Graduation Is Up-coming.

    Recently, one of my friends, Eddie, discussed a topic with me-- why we're so busy when the graduation is up-coming. Since most of my friends, including me, have achieved the essential requirement of course in NCCU, it should be reasonable that we can have plenty of time to prepare for our future, to search for our job. However, as a matter of fact, I'm still overwhelmed with numerous kinds of papers. After our talk, I gather three main reasons to explain this weird phenomenon.

     First of all, this is the last time we could be students. Although four years sounds enough for students to undertake a number of classes, there are some remaining courses that we want to take, such as the history of movies. To me, graduate schools give more specific intelligence in academic sector that I want, but college provides wider information in general.

     Secondly, we have learned abundant knowledge during the last three years. Our ambition to put past experience into good use is so strong that we cannot easily goof around to get normal grades. Therefore, papers written by ourselves must have the good quality we approved.

     Last but not the least, working hard on academic papers is another way to prepare for our future. Trying practice more with academics to make these knowledge root in our memories will somehow benefit our future career life.

      Good morning, I stay up for another paper again.

Let's Send Out The Blessing For The Graduate!!

 

   Do you want to send out your blessing to your friends who is going to graduate this June and hardly find out a best way to deliver it? Here I provide you one fantastic opportunity to give out you blessing to anyone you want. All you need to do is go visit this website: http://www.asus.com/tw/zentalk/tw/forum/list?aid=30493, and sign up as an ASUS member. Then click on the event called "驪歌輕唱，ZenFone幫你傳達祝福" and write down the words you want to say about the graduate. Don't worry if you are too shy to be found out about the message, for we provide you to leave the message anonymously. When finishing leaving the message, click on the facebook icon on the up-right corner and share the post on your facebook timeline, along with tagging three friends name. Then, you not only deliver your blessing but also earn a chance to send out a real mail to the person you want to bless by us!! For free of course!!

   Haha, actually, it is the event I planned and established lately. I attempt to increase the number of participants as many as I can. Originally, my teammates and I only promote this event on online forum such as Mobile01; however, it seems that users on such forum are not students and don't interest in the events. Consequently, we start to promote the event on Facebook, which most students are using it, and hope through Facebook to reach our target audiences, accelerating the number of participants. If you're reading this blog right now, please click the link(http://www.asus.com/tw/zentalk/tw/forum/list?aid=30493) and join the event!!!

Can Voluntourism Really Help Poor People?

     Recently, I read an article on the internet that talks about spurious kindness of voluntourism. The author mention that voluntourism somewhat transforms into a way for affluent people to sightsee the poop residents in developing countries. It suddenly occurred to me about my experience of voluntourism in Nepal. Before the trip, I had expected the sophisticated training and lots of discussion of how to really ell the people there; however, I had only met one time with my partners. Though I had a really good time there teaching children there and made lots of Nepali friends, I felt that the whole voluntourism project was lack of consistency. That is to say, we got no chance to meet the former group who had visited there and discussed with them about how to improve the process. Moreover, we couldn't exert experience from them. I think it will be better to keep people who had been to the same place in contact and make sure the later people can reach them to get first-hand information. I hope I can get the contact information of later team, passing my experience and improving the whole project.

One Month Left before Graduation!!

 

 
    Not until this week did I realize that it is only one month left before graduation! Although I want to slow down the pace to enjoy the last, precious moment on campus, I am overwhelmed by lots of reports and tests. At the same time, I have to make time to prepare the paper work for the exchange program and organize the accommodation and the plane ticket. It's true that I am very excited about the exchange experience in Europe, but I start to feel sad about leaving NCCU. One of my friends told me that she wanted to step in to the restaurants that she has never experienced before. And to me, what I want to do most is to play guitar and hang out with my friends in the guitar club in the administration building again; however, since administration building has undergone the repair process, it isn't likely to happen. Still, I want to play basketball with my friends and experience the delight freedom while running on the court. It occurs to me that I still have lots of things to do as a college student, but time stop me to do so like a governor. I believe that college life is the most cherish period in my life and I will miss it badly when entering the society.

Empathy v.s Sympathy

  Yesterday, while browsing the internet, I found an fascinating animation video talking about the difference between empathy and sympathy. When I saw the title at the first time, I attempted to differentiate empathy and sympathy on my own; however, I was disappointed at the failure about this question. Therefore,  I was curious about how the video would explain the difference and clicked on the video.

  The video first used an example that one of your friends, let's say Sarah, falling into a deep hole and screaming for help. From the point of empathy, one would climb down the hole and try to feel what Sarah feels, hugging her and connecting with her. As from the point of sympathy, one would stay on the ground looking down to the hole and say "It's bad down there, right. Now..., do you want a sandwich?". This reveals the critical difference between empathy and sympathy: empathetic people would walk in others' shoes, while sympathetic people would stay out the feeling of others and attempt to comfort them with words. At last, the video also proposes that the sentences that sympathetic people use to comfort others always begin with "At least" and that what Sarah wants is not the encouraging words but the feeling of connection. Hence, next time your friends confront some tragedy or in a bad mood, try to talk to them like this: "I don't even know what to say. I just glad you told me." It would be better if you end with a warm hug!!