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  1. Mar 2023
    1. During my first two semesters in college, I found myself hating my chemistry classes.

      This reminds me of my high school days. We started learning chemistry in the third year of junior high school. I was not particularly interested in chemistry at the beginning, so I sometimes lost my mind in class. For some reason, the chemistry teacher seemed to have installed a camera on me. As long as I distracted a little bit, she would call my name and ask me to do the questions, and she would let me go back to my seat only if I got it right. Later, in order not to be called by my name by the teacher, I had to listen carefully, but unexpectedly, I began to like chemistry gradually, and my grades were also very good. Looking back now, I am really grateful to my junior high school chemistry teacher.

    1. What are some similarities in ways of thinking, knowing, or doing that might exist between two or more of these four disciplines?

      For example, Artist and Humanist, I think they have one thing in common, "discovery". Artists need to discover their own feelings and ideas, while Humanists need to discover things in society that need to be valued or have been neglected.

    1. I invite you all to read this reflection and begin sharing your own. I look forward to learning with you all!

      I think this is a good way! I'm also about to start "reflection". What I know now is that I don't like writing too much and the teaching form of lectures, and other things have yet to be discovered.

    2. The summer before I started college, I changed my major five times.

      It turns out that you can really change majors many times! I'm having the same problem right now, I haven't quite decided which major to choose, wish me luck.

  2. Feb 2023
    1. How have wonder and curiosity shaped where you are now?

      I tried to review my experience, but I found that there seemed to be no way to give an answer, and I felt that I would subconsciously focus on some topics or professions in my daily life.

    1. After becoming a teacher, I eventually returned to my alma mater and found myself again crossing borders. I often took the new streetcar from my downtown home to work on campus. Like everyone else, I popped in my earbuds and swayed with each stop from block to block. Coming onto Fourth Avenue and University Boulevard, I’d get that familiar feeling. I was crossing a boundary again between new academic learning and what I had already learned from the deep, lasting contributions of my ancestors. I took many streetcar rides before I realized that even from my first day on campus as a freshman, I was the bridge across that line. I was carrying knowledge, even wisdom, between two seemingly opposite universes. And I wasn’t the only one.

      I was very moved when I saw this. The author went from being repelled and confused at the beginning to embracing life frankly at the end and finding the direction to work hard. She is an ordinary person, born in an ordinary family. She was secretly ashamed of her origin and thought she was out of place in "university", but she still wanted to contribute to her community and bring her experience and knowledge back, like a ferryman of knowledge.

  3. Jan 2023
    1. Moving away for college was a shock to my rhythm of life. I struggled without my groups. I got lousy grades, or worse. I questioned if I was on the right path. It took a while, but eventually I settled in with another group.

      Before the university, most of the residents in the community where most people live have roughly the same living habits, customs, culture, etc., so it is easier to understand, but after the university, the people around them come from different communities, different cities, different cultures, etc. Countries, at this time, we will find that the exchange and collision of cultures has become a challenge for us.