A rainy day got her even more worried about my weak body so I was totally banned to wear anything that is not covered with my back and shoulders...I thought to myself that I'd be alright half an hour before I was going to the train station. Not until I realised that my body was heating up to the point that I had to lie down for a bit. The next thing I did was to feel my forehead and my cheeks. At that point, I had to leave my house so I wouldn't be late for my first lecture, but I couldn't. There was only 5 minutes for me to decide whether I should go or not go, I rested a bit, thinking that I wouldn't be feeling well though I did go...so..yeh...
Say, I am seriously not a lazy one here. As knowing that I would miss two lectures today, I've ran through everything I should do for the lectures, especially the media one which it comprises 117 slides with lots of models. After trying so hard to understand the concepts by exploring the historical facts on google with my fuzzy head, I only felt that today isn't really a day for me to be working productively.
But still...You have to push yourself to work through everything you have planned for the day. Zero productivity is just unacceptable. Yup...done with all my online readings for the week as well as the course reader that are required for the upcoming week although I wasn't sure how long all this information is going to stay in my mind. The phrase I see the most these days is 'media ecology' and you know academic readings, they like to complicate a term, making it sound so massive and intangible...
Anyways...I was talking about how hard working those Harvard students are during our dinner. You gotta believe this, true geniuses are those mad people, yes, mad people that are madly living in a piles of books all day long. In Harvard, you won't see any of them talking during their meals in the canteen. Why? Because they'd love to go to a corner to read while eating. You won't see a single person chit chatting her/his recent life to another person if you walk around the campus. Why? They only care about is how to finish reading the books in the shortest time so that they can read more books and resources. They dedicate 99% of their time to get drowned in the sea of books, and spend that 1% to multitask...with books still...There is no reason for anyone in Harvard not to be a genius, in fact, getting in Harvard is already one genius.
Nevertheless, I like how the author uses other examples in comparison to Chinese education in which the creativity and persistence are those that the Chinese students lack. Deeply embedded in the Chinese culture which the examination system acts as a major role determining the Chinese have to rely on this process to learn. They are only learning for the exam, for a conventional system, instead of their passion to keen on doing something they think they should, or like. Despite the fact that this is pretty universal for every Chinese school due to that super competitiveness in China, western education is focused more on comprehensive development. Not everyone is a genius that can take more than 8 or 9 subjects, and ace them. And knowledge does take time to grow, also takes even a longer time to make it your capital. Restricting one's capability to learn things is killing one's freedom. So I totally agree with this article where it says intellectual excellence and exploration are to grow into an independently thinking. It's freedom that has been there for years in western culture, encouraging their citizens to think about what is the best for them ; it's choices that extending people's creative thinking; it's interest that keeps a person persistently to go through the obstacles they may face in their exploration.
Anyways...back to reality where vulnerable me was having a hard time falling asleep at night. Guessing mum has put too much oil on my back, making it burning and hurting like hell =3=....
But still...You have to push yourself to work through everything you have planned for the day. Zero productivity is just unacceptable. Yup...done with all my online readings for the week as well as the course reader that are required for the upcoming week although I wasn't sure how long all this information is going to stay in my mind. The phrase I see the most these days is 'media ecology' and you know academic readings, they like to complicate a term, making it sound so massive and intangible...
Anyways...I was talking about how hard working those Harvard students are during our dinner. You gotta believe this, true geniuses are those mad people, yes, mad people that are madly living in a piles of books all day long. In Harvard, you won't see any of them talking during their meals in the canteen. Why? Because they'd love to go to a corner to read while eating. You won't see a single person chit chatting her/his recent life to another person if you walk around the campus. Why? They only care about is how to finish reading the books in the shortest time so that they can read more books and resources. They dedicate 99% of their time to get drowned in the sea of books, and spend that 1% to multitask...with books still...There is no reason for anyone in Harvard not to be a genius, in fact, getting in Harvard is already one genius.
Nevertheless, I like how the author uses other examples in comparison to Chinese education in which the creativity and persistence are those that the Chinese students lack. Deeply embedded in the Chinese culture which the examination system acts as a major role determining the Chinese have to rely on this process to learn. They are only learning for the exam, for a conventional system, instead of their passion to keen on doing something they think they should, or like. Despite the fact that this is pretty universal for every Chinese school due to that super competitiveness in China, western education is focused more on comprehensive development. Not everyone is a genius that can take more than 8 or 9 subjects, and ace them. And knowledge does take time to grow, also takes even a longer time to make it your capital. Restricting one's capability to learn things is killing one's freedom. So I totally agree with this article where it says intellectual excellence and exploration are to grow into an independently thinking. It's freedom that has been there for years in western culture, encouraging their citizens to think about what is the best for them ; it's choices that extending people's creative thinking; it's interest that keeps a person persistently to go through the obstacles they may face in their exploration.
Anyways...back to reality where vulnerable me was having a hard time falling asleep at night. Guessing mum has put too much oil on my back, making it burning and hurting like hell =3=....
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