Reflection of the Class

Strength
I enjoy how students put out their ideas that are not yet matured, expecting to be improved and polished by others through sometimes debatable discussion. In fact we often employed the form of presentation to put our developing ideas of an essay on display, and everyone would give a little piece of advice regarding format, structure and phrasing/wording. It is a new and refreshing form of studying for me. Unlike high school where only teachers would review my essays and the communication would be exclusive, now it is all about the entity of class.

The writing center is definitely a desiring place to be when I want to improve my essays.

I also like how everything we learn can be revisited on Edmodo, so there is no fear of losing materials given. Moreover, the website allows students and teachers to communicate casually but directly outside of classroom.

In addition I am glad we have Madhav as our English teacher because we share similar cultural and social values. Above all he had been where we curretly are now in learning english, meaning he understood how we struggle to write as the Americans do and hence gave us applicable advice.

Weakness
I feel like the class could be wearing sometimes, possibly because we have it every day.
I have done almost everything I learned in the past so personally it could seem repetitive sometimes, but MLA formatting is for sure an exception which I definitely benefited from the class.

Suggestion
I would expect essay assignments to be announced at least 4 days prior to due dates, on behalf of the next class. 🙂

Introducing Myself

Hey everyone! I’m Sandy, from Taipei, Taiwan. I’m currently in the college of communication, majoring media studies. I have always had a great interest in studying films and television industry.

I had a pretty diverse educational background due to my father’s occupation. I moved to China at the age of eleven, spent four years in Beijing and three years in Shanghai. I went to two international schools where I made friends from all over the world, allowing me to learn a little bit of several languages. However diverse, both schools had a population less than five hundred, and all of my classes were small in terms of size. There were only about thirty-five students in my graduating class. Although I was able to know almost everyone from my school, I wanted to breakthrough my comfort zone and experience a bigger campus, which is one of the reasons I chose Penn State.

Unlike some of my peers who knew exactly what they wanted to pursue in college, I struggled to find the answer. Finally, I decided to set back my enrollment and accepted the internship at PATT, an architectural firm, as an assistant designer last year.

Drifting from one community to another, I have learned to become proud of my identity as a global citizen. Thus I believe my past experience will help me grow as a student here. 😀