Advising - grad?!

+ Last Tuesday, I met a psychology adviser. She marked down the courses I taken before I came. I was impressed because most advisers did this kind of thing during the meeting, not before. I appreciate it a lot.

+ My two main concerns

1. Have I met all general requirements?!
According to this advisor, yes. Before this meeting, I saw another walk-in-advisor who said I still had to take two more courses in order to meet all general requirements. Who do I trust?! (It's one of the reasons why I can't tell my graduation date.)

2. Am I following the psych major direction?
Yes. I've to take three more psych courses. (Good!!)

+ Some friends asked me my graduation date. I really don't know. There are many uncertainties. Well, my plan is to graduate in Dec 09... First of all, I've to figure out whether I've met all general requirements. The most accurate way is to fill out an Intent to Graduate form, but it takes weeks or months to know the result. I don't want to wait. Well, no choice.

+ Some asked me when I would visit HK this summer. I don't know, too. It depends on whether I take summer courses. Seriously, I want to be back as soon as possible.

+ Miss you all!!

School - 2nd week

1/26/09 Mon

+ p301. I didn't officially enrol in the class because I haven't met the class requirements yet, so I've to get a permission from the professor. Before, I emailed the professor about talking both 300 and 301 together, and she said yes.

+Today, I attended the class as usual. At the end of the lesson, I asked the professor for permission number so that I could enrol the class officially. However, the professor said I'd to get a premission from the head of department as well in order to take the class. I didn't know about it.

+Afterward, I went to psych department for the request, but the secertary said that I didn't have to get an extra permission from the head since the professor'd already said yes. Luckily, the secretary helped me to get the premission number from the professor.

+Well, I didn't want to deal with this kind of troublesome paperwork!!



1/27/09 Tue

+ I was surprised to meet B in URI main entrance because she isn't a URI student. She told me she got on a wrong bus. B, sorry that I didn't chat with you. I was very tired at that time.

+ To take a 15 mins nap.

+ To see a psych advisor so was late to the next class. Well, didn't matter. I'm often late to class

+ to M 316 (bored, no idea what is going on), P300 (pay attention), M451 (day-dream), P103 (fell asleep), M382(the most meaningful lesson today)

+ to work.



1/28/09 Wed

+ No class. P301 professor re-scheduled the class to Fri because of snow.

+ Happy to chat with M in MSN.



1/29/09 Thu

+ M316 (Finally, I'd a clue on what was going on) P300, M451, P103, M382

+ check-up. I'd a long chat, about 30 mins, with the talkative doctor. He's different from the doctors I met in both HK and US. We talked anout my background, concern, etc. Meanwhile, he told me he was reading a book called The China Study, about the study of nutrition in China, recently. Afterward, I requested it from public libraries. Well, this book seems to be interesting. At the same time, I doubted whether I'd time to read it ==''



1/30/09 Fri

+ P301. Few days ago, I enrolled the class successfully. Glad.

Casual Writting - Math class

+ Here is the conversation between me(K) and the Math professor(N) at the end of the lesson.
K: I missed the last class. May I have the syllabus please?
N: What is your name?
K: XXX Fong. (Don't want to show my real name.)
N: Oh, you are Fong.
Getting me the syllabus.
N: Two years ago, did you take the complex number with me?
K: (Thinking. Well, I remembered I took a class with him before but didn't remember what it was. Few seconds later...) Yes.
N: What happened to you at that time? Why didn't you come suddenly?
K: I dropped the class...You've a good memory... still remember it!
N: Do you know why I remembered it? You did quite well in the mid-term. Then suddenly, you disappeared.
K: Oh, I thought I did bad so dropped the class.
N: You didn't get back the mid-term result, did you?
K: No. (Regret on saying he'd a good memory and not talking back the mid-term)
N: (A casual tone)You know, it's none of my business. Just want to let you know I remember it.
K: Ok.
He gave me the syllabus and talked with another student.

+ The content is correct (95% sure, maybe miss some details). Well, I didn't quite remember the way he said. Any grammatical mistakes, please forgive me!!

+ Damn it. Damn it. I was surprised he remembered it so clearly. Acutally, I didn't quite rememeber him. At the first fifteen minutes of the lesson, I'd no idea he taught me before. Then, I found his appearence and voice are familiar. I thought I might be taught by him or at least saw him somewhere. Really, I still can't believe he remembered me so well. Every semester, a number of students drop classes.

+ Also, now, I think back. The reason I dropped his class is the bad schedule. In that semester, I'd five classes on Mon, Wed, and Fri morning. His 1.5 hours class was on Tue and Thur. The school is far way from my home. It takes me an hour for one way to school. You see, the traffic time is longer than the class time. At that time, I didn't want to attend his class. Acutally, I missed a few classes.

+ Another reason is the class was hard. I day-dreamed a lot and had no idea what was going on almost every lesson. I copied notes like a machine. Before the mid-term, I just read the notes and went through whatever I understood (50%... I believe!!)

+ Of course, I won't tell him the true reasons!! haha. Hope that he won't mention it again.

+ I've a strong feeling that the Math class (the current one) is >_< + I'm shocked. I'm not a good student, often late for classes and sometimes miss classes and homework. I'm afraid years later, professors may tell me somethings like, "oh, you're the one who was absent a lot". OMG!!