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I came back!

Wednesday

Yesterday I came back from Florida. What a tired trip! Boresome checking and long time waiting almost droved me crazy. I hurried up to my class because our team had a leading discussion presentation. Fortunately every member shared thinking of this program in advance and we did a good job. But I feel my English still have a few problems when I talk with native speakers. How can I improve it? Friends told me to keep talking, it needs time.

The following two weeks is very busy, I need prepare my midterm exam. Fighting!

Huge storm

Thurday

A big snow hit Boston yesterday, fortunately I had no class. I didn't know the university could be closed during the inclement weather, maybe the next time I can prepare in advance.

Today the road was slippy, I had no experience in walking on such roads. Unfortunately I slipped on the ice, ha, So painful!  Every Thursday is my most busy day because I have two classes and one is tough.  After checking my time schedule, I suddenly find that the following two weeks would drive me crazy by reason of  two project presentations, one individual project summary due, two case write-up due and one midterm exam. Does it always run round in circles before the spring break? I cannot imagine what situation I will have!

But, One thing is happy for finishing my first exam this semester. I like the professor, he is so knowledgeable and humorous that all of students feel interesting in his class.  And a happier thing is that I will go to Florida  to see my family this weekend because two days later is  Chinese Spring Festival, wa, so excited!!! But I have to do assignments and prepare the project during these days. Anyway, let me enjoy a wonderful weekend!

Efficient Study

I just finished my last course of this week.  Ha, I have three days relaxed again. When this time comes every week, I feel comfortable. To be honest, I think I am a diligent student, just need some spare time do something except studying:)

After four weeks study, I have some ideas of my courses. First of all, they are totally not easy. If I want get some valuable information from these courses, I should do my best to preparing slides and textbooks, listening carefully in the class, doing homework and projects. I know almost all the students will do above things, but why can someone get "A", someone just "C"?  Maybe grades can not identify who is better than another, but I think only if you do your work efficiently, you can get the satisfied result. So how can we do things efficiently? I find successful students or professionals all have good habit of study. They do things clearly and use less time but get higher performance. Frankly I admire this kind of people because they always look like easy whenever they do anything. However, everyone can achieve like this situation if he thinks deeply about the method of study. My best friend always tells me that study is not easy things, you should run your head to consider something inside. Yesterday I completed my first individual case about the marking analysis. I spent one day up to 12 hours to read case and write down my answers, but I still feel not good for my less experience of analyzing a complicated case. In the face of this situation, I think I should change my study method to separate several times to do the case not just concentrate in one day. Even though I am not satisfied with this, I promise myself to do better next time.

The third week

Yesterday a Professor told us to cancel an exam that should be taken in the next Thursday. I breathed deeply when I heard that. Actually I am adapting to graduate's life in US,  to be honest, this is a little bit difficult to me. Some of my friends in here told me that I would get better in the future, I hope so.

I chose to take four courses this semester, it's an acceptable numbers for fulltime students. Three of them are all core MBA courses, I need take them even though I am not going to be a MBA student. The rest one is very helpful for my future major, I like it. When I put my head into a lot of books for several hours, and then finish one and one homework, a feeling of satisfaction is filled in my heart. I know there are still many things I should improve, such as how to prepare presentation well, how to write the case in English logically and briefly and how to grasp the essential meaning of the book.  Nevertheless, I know a Chinese adage:" Where there is a will, there is a way."

In addition, I got my SSN this week, it's a good news for me. Thanks to people helping me so much including Suffolk staffs and officers, because it indicates an important change for a foreigner. Anyway, happy,so happy!!!