Technology and Human Society

     I added this course after the semester began, so I didn't know what this class is doing. I shouldn't have selected this course which was still with capacity. I selected courses carefully in order not to take an awful class. However, taking this class was the biggest mistake that I've made since my college life. We have to take these 3-credit core courses in order to graduate. There wasn't too much time for me to find out if this class is good or bad. Therefore, I go to College of Commerce every Wednesday night.

     To be honest, I didn't pay much attention to the class at first. However, I tried to do hard on it once, but in vain. What the things in our textbook is really a mess to me. I really don't know if it is my own problem, because one of my classmates taking the same class encounters the same predicament. We can hardly realize what the textbook and the professor is talking about. It is filled with abstract concepts and a lot of assumptions, and always discussing with some questions with no answer or I think that professor himself doesn't know.

     What's more, we have to finish three 1000 words assignments, three group presentations, and a final presentation along with a 5000 words report in a semester. It is totally ruining my leisure time! Like now, early in the morning, I am still fighting with these assignments just because it took me so long to do the final report. In addition, I am bad at presentation. It is really a nightmare when it was my turn to do the presentation. 

     Due to this experience, I will select my courses more carefully next time in order to have a wonderful semester!

        

Freshman Orientation

     This class is definitely a nightmare for us freshman! Everyone is forced to take the class unless you don't want to graduate. To pass the class and get the credit, we have to join a camp filled with boring speech before the semester. In addition, we have to take four classes on either 7 a.m. or 7 p.m., when nobody wants to have a class. Since I don't know if I will have some activities to participate at night, I take the morning class, and therefore, I skipped the class last time because of oversleeping.

     Since I didn't attend the class last time, I had to appear in class this time or I would fail the course. Getting up so early is really a  hard task for me since I often go to bed after 2 a.m. However, to pass the class, I got up and attended on time this time. This time, we got breakfast to eat. It is said that we will have pizza or fried chicken. I anticipated a free big meal. To my disappointment, we had only sandwiches which had already become cold. The class is also boring this time. Our TA invited a retired school staff to have a sharing. I think she didn't even prepare for it, because she was always saying something doesn't matter to our life. It is totally her memory in NCCU. 

     After this class, we will have our last class next time. There are assignments to finish and four meaningless activities to participate. In my opinion, this course is totally a failure. Yet, we all still have to attend it for our credit. Hope I can get up on time next time and successfully pass it.