3rd week(10/25-10/31) Temperature 3~8℃
On Monday, I continually prepared for Tuesday’s presentation and revised my 1st and 2nd weeks’ life records as well as research project proposal.
This Tuesday I did the presentation about worksheet research in the CALBULS meeting. After I finished the presentation, I knew my presentation is not complete. I didn’t survey other relevant literatures and research. Dr. Chang pointed out a lot of mistakes that I made during the presentation.
Dr. Chang taught me some important concepts, for instances, literatures are not bible, as a researcher, I should be able to (1) summarize the pros and the cons of the research; (2) question the method and the theory the authors designed and chose; (3) have questions for the authors in order to make myself get the idea of what the authors were trying to say in the literatures; (4) fill the gaps in-between the proposed research and other research that the literatures may have by doing further and deeper survey; (5) know how the literatures and its results benefit my research; and (6) find improvable issues to make the research better if the research is very similar to mine. Those concepts are very important for doing research. I will remember those.
On Wednesday and Thursday, beside the life record and research project proposal revisions, I also found another literature to read for the next two-week’s reading assignment. On Friday night, I had a Halloween Games Party. Who invited me to the party? It’s Juliette. She invited me and Will to their Halloween party when we were at the “imporv night.”
In the Friday night, I and Will went to the party. When we arrived at the party, sponsors, Darryl and Ben gave us very warm welcome. They introduced us to everyone and took us to the table for drink and crackers. When we were eating, two girls came over and said hi to us. They are Rochelle and Kim (in Figure 1). They knew that we come from Taiwan
Darryl and Ben prepared a music game at their basement. The game has guitar, drums and three microphones for players as Figure 2 shows. Players have to play the instruments (e.g. guitar) or to sing the song with the microphones correctly according to the music tempo. Everyone sang the song the game was playing. I could hear singing and laughing in the party. Everyone was so happy. It was my first Halloween Games Party and I will not forget that night forever.
During the weekend, I took rest and read paper at home. I skimmed through the paper quickly and indentified those contents I don’t understand. One figure is missing in the paper, so I sent an e-mail to the authors and asked them sending me the revision. Hope I can get the revision from the authors soon.
Figure 1. Halloween Games Party (right to left: Will, Kim, Rochelle, A, James, B)
