What I had learned from "Survey on University Education"

Many students in Taiwan think that they do not perform as well as the students a decade ago. And not only the students but also the parents in Taiwan worry about the following issues:
Firstly, Taiwanese students are in danger of losing their competitiveness in the global economy. Secondly, the current university system is inadequate, and lags far behind the rest of the world. However, I have different opinion; I do not think we can shirk the responsibility to government. Maybe it is right to say that our ability are affected by the education reform and the university system, however, a person that performs well or not depends on how hard he/she works, not how well the education reform is or how good the university system is. Moreover, although the world changes fast, we are changing too, aren’t we? Thus, how can we say that we students are lack of competitiveness in the global economy? Also, it is mentioned in the article: maybe professors in the university are responsible to that because they lose passion. However, I do not think so, either. Students who want to stand out in this society must be an active learner. We cannot say that professors should be responsible for our bad performance. That is our own fault, not professors’ or government’s. Why don’t we think about ourselves: Am I an active learner? How hard I work? Do I do my best? I believe that if we can do self-reflection we will not be afraid of lacking of ability, because we do have the ability to compete with all the people in this world.

Chinese culture

In Taiwan, there are so many different cultures. Such as we have to sweep a grave on 4/5, and we have to reunite with their families. However, I think the Chinese New Year is the most important culture in Taiwan.
Source of the Chinese New year, with good grounds, it can be before tracing back to several thousand years to be and abundant and adopt more colorful legends. And the most famous one is the legend of ' the annual beast '. 'The annual beast ' is one kind of violent wild animal; ancient people believe ' the annual beast ' will come out to take to people at New Year's Eve. Legend ' annual beast ' fear getting red, flame and noisy sound very much, so people stick the red note to at the door, and light the torch, set off the big gun candle whole night, to avoid ' the annual beast '. Have reached the next day early in the morning, that ' congratulate on ' can be heard without end, defeat the victory and happiness of living again of ' annual beast ' filling the air in the air.
Besides, like other festivals, the food also plays a very important role during the Chinese New Year. Take an example, the fish are indispensable operas involving much singing and action in the Chinese New Year’s Eve, because the fish are symbolizing ' have enough and to spare every year '; The fragrant-flowered garlic represents ' for ever '; Turnip have meaning of ' good luck ', but fish ball and burger are representative ' reunion '. In addition, New Year cake means ' getting promotion continuously ', boiled meat dumpling because form look like shoe-shaped gold ingot, drinking water dumpling means accumulate the wealth for the coming year the Chinese New Year.
The main reason of why I think the Chinese New Year is the most important culture in Taiwan is that no matter how society changes, this idea of reuniting with family is still occupying the most important position in the celebration activity in New Year. So, if you didn’t go home for a long time, don’t forget to go home on the Chinese New Year!

Drama is so cool.

These two days I had been the staff English proficiency competition. There were so many representatives of school. And I saw a lot of fantastic drama in these two days. Every members in the team showed their team spirits and their best when they were on the stage. I enjoyed watching their performance, and I learned a lot from that. Although I was not a member in the drama, I was a staff of this competition. Thus, I thought that I played an important role as well, because I had to control the order and comfort the emotions of the competitors. In fact, I thought that I became more mature after the competition, because I learned a lot from it. For instance, I learned the team spirit, and I learned that how to stay calm when the situation was in a mess! Moreover, I wanted to participate in this kind of competition in the future if I have the chance!

Practice writing skills 2.

Taiwan's Helicopter Parent
Nowadays, people have less and less children. For raising a child will spend a lot of money, thus, it is common for a family to have only one or two children. And because of that, parents will pay more attention to their children. Then, there are more and more helicopter parents in Taiwan. Parents usually want their children to stand out in the competitive society, so they will pay so much attention to every action their children do. Maybe what they do is their love, but sometimes it is too much. If I were the child, I will be angry at that. For I want to have my own room to do what I want to do. I do not like the feeling of being monitored. Also, if parents involve too much in all the things which are related to their children and prepare all the things for their children, their children will lack of the ability to handle things by themselves. They will rely on their parent all the time, and they will not have the ability of independent thinking. That is because they will think that all the things will be prepared by their parents, and their parents will help them to solve all the things for them. Thus, they cannot handle the problem very well by themselves. In conclusion, it is common for parents to pay attention to their children; however, too much care is not good especially for child, because it will produce bad effect for their children to develop their ability of problem solving.

Practice writing skills.

Students should study only subjects in their majors. State whether you agree or disagree and support your argument with specific reasons and examples.

Personally speaking, I disagree with the statement that students should study only subjects in their majors. There are so many advantages that if students study not only subjects in their majors but also subjects offered by other departments. First of all, students can cultivate their interests by studying different subjects in different departments. Secondly, students can broaden their horizon if students do not study only subjects in their majors. Last but not the least, if students take more courses in different departments, they will be more competitive with others. Now, I am going to use these above-mentioned reasons to explain my position.

First, students can cultivate their interests if they take different courses not only from their own department but also from other departments. Everyone may have lots potential but never be discovered. And when they study not only their majors, they may find out those interests and potential that they never know they really have. As soon as they discover their interests and potential in other subjects from different departments, then it will be very helpful in their learning. According to a research, when people do something he/she is interested in, it will be more efficient than do something that people is not interested in. Thus, I think people can cultivate their interests and enlighten their potential if they study not only subjects in their major.

Second, due to the point of view of society, to broaden our horizon is very important. And I think students can also broaden their horizon by taking more subjects in different departments. Because when you take different subjects you may get more information and more knowledge from those subjects. So, the viewpoint for you to think about things will be more extensive. That means when you think about one thing, and your view will not be limited by those little information you used to have. Moreover, you will make more friends that come from different departments. Thus, you can exchange your ideas from each other than before. Also, you will be more intelligent by taking more subjects in different departments. For the reasons, I think that if students take more subjects in different department can broaden their horizon.

Third, nowadays, it is very hard to find a good job. So, to be more competitive with others is such an important issue. And I think it will make students be more competitive with others if they study not only subjects in their majors but other subjects in other departments. For instance, it is without a doubt that if a boss wants to recruit a new employee and a man who is specialized in different fields will be the first candidate for the job. In addition, if a man who has many specialties can have more opportunities when finding a job. For example, if a man has the language ability and computer ability at the same time, and then he can look for the job which is related to language or which is related to computer. Thus, he has two opportunities when looking for a job. For this purpose, I think if students study not only subjects in their majors will be more competitive with others in the future.

To sum up, I really agree with that students should study subjects not only in their majors but the subjects in different departments. Because there are so many merits for students to take other subjects in other departments, such as, to cultivate their interests, to broaden their horizon, to be more competitive with others and so on.
As mentioned above, I disagree with that students should study only subjects in their majors.

Friends.

I enjoy watching friends so much. The plots are so funny and the characters are funny as well. Moreover, I think that I can learn a lot of slang or phrases from that. In fact, I want to have this kind of friends thus every time we argue, then, we will recover very soon. Also, I want to have friends, who can communicate with each other, I do not want my friends to hide their feelings because that will hurt our friendship. I do enjoy watching movies and learn the language part from that. I think that will help me to learn faster than the way I just read the book, because movies are more vivid and interesting than book. Moreover, our oral class teacher asked us to act a short part of the scrip for our mid-term. That was so interesting, and all the group members did learn a lot from that! “Friends” is such a good movie, isn’t it?

What a happy day!

I was so happy today because I needn’t go to work today, and I had a date with someone whom I like secretly. We had planned the schedule last week. Today we went shopping in the department store, ate a lot of delicious food, and went to the movies! We went to see “The golden compass”. It was so good because the plot was so exciting. And I loved the bear in that movie. The bear was so strong and also I wanted to have the elfin in the movie. The elfin was the best friend of child, and it went everywhere you went. It would protect you when you were in danger as well. What a cool movie, and I enjoy that very much! After watching the movie, we went to Fridays to have our lunch, the food there was so delicious, and I loved it very much! Today was really a happy day for me, and I hope that the one who went on the date with me would feel happy as well! Besides, I hope that we could have other dates in the future! ^^