Tomorrow, we’ll have our presentation show to our teacher and classmates in the class. The topic of we group 5 is Noble Prize in Medicine 2005: The discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. We’ve prepared it for several weeks. At first, my part was about the diagnosis of H. pylori and the cures. However, after the TA’s instruction, I deleted most of my slices of PPT, from 11 to less than three. It turned out that I should get some extra part. So I cooperated with Stephen Liu, to say it precisely, helped him to search for some information, papers and shared some tasks with him. After giving him the vital paper, which our Biology teacher assigned to us, I have just leaved him to introduce this part about gastric cancer alone. So what about me? I just take the part of making a summary of our presentation. I spent hours designing an illustration which contained most of what we have introduced. Though actually it didn’t finished all by myself but by the help of my teammates, I’m still quite content with it.
It took us more than two weeks to correct our PPT to satisfy the TA’s requirement. All in all, she finally said that we’re OK last Sunday, but telling us to practice lecturing or we can’t frequently show all our works to the audience. So we took advantages of these two days to practice, practice and practice. After more than ten times of practicing, most of us can memorize all the 21 slices of PPT and give a complete lecture of this topic by only one person. That’s quite amazing!
Tonight is the last night we had a discussing group, it was quite weird because that my emotion alternated between excited and sorrowful. I can’t wait to show all our efforts in class, but after that, all things come to the end. It made me a little bit sad…
Whatever, what should we do now is having a good sleep, and doing our best to make a perfect presentation. Nobel group 5, Go Go Go!!!
New words I’ve learned from this time:
TA： teaching assistant (n.)
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Grab the opportunity. Interview
This Tuesday, just 5 minutes before our Biology midterm, I have joined the interview for represents of CGU university to the international meeting. Actually, I have been hesitating about whether to attend it or not for two reasons. The first one, the date of the interview is just right on the day we are going to have the midterm of Biology. According to my experience, I can hardly brush through my Brooker just one day before the exam. Joining the interview, and maybe I can’t get well-prepared on my midterm and would get a horrible grade…The other reason is that I haven’t got my information needed in the interview ready. What I should prepare is my biography, the motivation of my being the represents, and most terribly, my ability of speaking English or having an English speech. How can I use the limited time to do such plenty of works= = So, eventually I have decided to give up on last Sunday.
However, the minister of M.S.A, Zen msn me on Sunday night, saying that there’s one vacancy so that I can have a try in the interview. Though I didn’t want to join at all now, but Zen just persuaded me to take it just as mock exam…(In fact, I thought that I could not refuse it because that I have just sent an email to him last Friday…) So I just started preparing my information just right the time. I stayed up late till about 3 or 4 o’clock that night…= =which makes me so tired next day Orz
Tuesday afternoon, during the military training class I kept memorizing my Biology knowledge, such as the structure of ATP, and so on. I thought that though I don’t have sufficient time to brush through it twice, I have tried my best to prepare for this midterm. I studied harder than what I did last semester, even doing more exercises on the Internet. It would be destiny if I didn’t get more points than before. After class dismissed, I grabbed a bread and got ready to enter the room for participants.
Everyone should arrived ten minutes before the English interview to draw out the topic of impromptu speech. I got “talking about my favorite sport,” that not quite a difficult topic. But because it has been such a long time since I did an impromptu speech last time, thoughts in my brain are just in a mess. I was so nervous before I got to enter the meeting room. However, the time when I entered it, I got relaxed because that the two teachers who gonna listen to me was quite friendly. Eventually I had finished my speech, notwithstanding it being not so frequent.
But during the Chinese interviewing, the teachers asked a lot of difficult questions which I cannot correctly answer it. But my chemistry said that I had did well. It really consoled me:)
Two days later, I had got the result of the interview: I failed to be one of the present. I had checked the list, and finding that most of the presents are more senior than we freshmen by more than three years. So it’s OK and I’m pleasant because that I have tried my best, and I’m satisfied with my expression. Though I didn’t get the ticket to join the meeting, I think that the most precious thing is that I have stepped out to try it. It’s quite an improvement to me:)
Grab the opportunity, and I won’t be regretful of no trying it :)
New words I’ve learned from this time:
Mock exam (n.)
military training class (n.)
draw out (v.)
impromptu speech (n.)
console (v.)
However, the minister of M.S.A, Zen msn me on Sunday night, saying that there’s one vacancy so that I can have a try in the interview. Though I didn’t want to join at all now, but Zen just persuaded me to take it just as mock exam…(In fact, I thought that I could not refuse it because that I have just sent an email to him last Friday…) So I just started preparing my information just right the time. I stayed up late till about 3 or 4 o’clock that night…= =which makes me so tired next day Orz
Tuesday afternoon, during the military training class I kept memorizing my Biology knowledge, such as the structure of ATP, and so on. I thought that though I don’t have sufficient time to brush through it twice, I have tried my best to prepare for this midterm. I studied harder than what I did last semester, even doing more exercises on the Internet. It would be destiny if I didn’t get more points than before. After class dismissed, I grabbed a bread and got ready to enter the room for participants.
Everyone should arrived ten minutes before the English interview to draw out the topic of impromptu speech. I got “talking about my favorite sport,” that not quite a difficult topic. But because it has been such a long time since I did an impromptu speech last time, thoughts in my brain are just in a mess. I was so nervous before I got to enter the meeting room. However, the time when I entered it, I got relaxed because that the two teachers who gonna listen to me was quite friendly. Eventually I had finished my speech, notwithstanding it being not so frequent.
But during the Chinese interviewing, the teachers asked a lot of difficult questions which I cannot correctly answer it. But my chemistry said that I had did well. It really consoled me:)
Two days later, I had got the result of the interview: I failed to be one of the present. I had checked the list, and finding that most of the presents are more senior than we freshmen by more than three years. So it’s OK and I’m pleasant because that I have tried my best, and I’m satisfied with my expression. Though I didn’t get the ticket to join the meeting, I think that the most precious thing is that I have stepped out to try it. It’s quite an improvement to me:)
Grab the opportunity, and I won’t be regretful of no trying it :)
New words I’ve learned from this time:
Mock exam (n.)
military training class (n.)
draw out (v.)
impromptu speech (n.)
console (v.)
Saturday, April 19, 2008
What a tiring week
Actually, I can not believe that I have survived this week. From Brooker (though I still failed to rescue my biology…) to the knotty Nobel prize presentation, only one of them would make me crazy, not to mention both coming this week! The time I can (or must) go to bed this week ranges from four o’clock to six. I haven’t thought of this kind a week would happen to me…Fortunately, I have overcome this difficult time with my team mates. We looked for more and more papers to cover the knowledge which we haven’t heard of. It really took us such a long time to read through these papers because that most of them are in English. Even if some of them are in Chinese, we cannot understand them due to piles of proper nouns and the deficiency of background knowledge…It really frustrated us when we tried as hard as we can but in vain. However, we are just like children who should pass through a period of climbing time and then they’ll know how to walk, after we have searched for lots of information about our Nobel prize in 2005, finally we become more and more confident and we now not only conquer the knotty task, but learn a lots of tips for doing a project with the method of PBL. We now are not afraid of new words or new proper nouns.(That’s what out Biology teacher said to us. XD ) Though it’s so tired during the preparation of the presentation, now I’m sure that I have learned something from it. I believe that’s what our teacher wants us to learn:)
We’re going to have a presentation in five days, next Tuesday. Bless me:) I’m confident that we, group 5 of class B, will make a good job!!
New words I’ve learned from this time:
Knotty (adj.)
Proper noun (n.)
We’re going to have a presentation in five days, next Tuesday. Bless me:) I’m confident that we, group 5 of class B, will make a good job!!
New words I’ve learned from this time:
Knotty (adj.)
Proper noun (n.)
Monday, April 14, 2008
Exhausted
It's quite a daunting task to handle Nobel presentation and Biology midterm at a time...It has been such a long time since last time when I stayed up almost the whole night.
The situation has been a bit lighter since I had given up the chance to apply the international meeting. Though it's a pity that I cannot go to Japan to have a look this year, I can join Lokka da or just APRM in Taipei. After all, I don't have any more energy to deal with another thing at this time...
Time to pay attention to my Brooker! Nobels are waiting for me...
By Pei, 4:30A.M. April 14th, 2008
The situation has been a bit lighter since I had given up the chance to apply the international meeting. Though it's a pity that I cannot go to Japan to have a look this year, I can join Lokka da or just APRM in Taipei. After all, I don't have any more energy to deal with another thing at this time...
Time to pay attention to my Brooker! Nobels are waiting for me...
By Pei, 4:30A.M. April 14th, 2008
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