Being a Bird
Sunday, August 26, 2012
black
i need it to be sourer and more bitter to impact my mouth
then the aroma will stimulate my brain and motivate my soul
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Bonus - BBC Learning English message boards
It is common to see a lot of rare number for me in my electronic engineering book.
So I have a question about how to pronounce the numbers.
Here’s my question and their reply.
Dear teacher:
I don't know how to pronounce
number with . e.g. 34.55
fraction e.g. 13/14
root sign e.g. √10
Are there any formal and informal pronunciation?
I will be glad to hear your answer.
Thank you very much.
Hi, birdKen,
34.55 = thirty-four point five five
13/14 = thirteen fourteenths
square root of ten
Rover
In fact, I have other questions, but I can’t type the specific sign.
And I think, there have to be a searching function.
After I post a question, it’s troubling to find what I post after a few days.
BBC learning is a good site that has many materials, I’ll visit this site often.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Assignments 10 - MIT Open Courseware
Wow! MIT OCW is amazing! There are so many kinds of courses and famous professors. Even though I live here in
I find that there are many kinds of courses which are useful to me, like linear algebra, differential equation etc. I didn’t do well at some of the courses I had taken, and they have those courses! And I also find that some classes in our school for the graduate student are taught in English. I think this website can help me a lot to review what I learn and make me being used to be in an English teaching environment.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Assignments 9 - New Year Reflection & Hope
Time goes by fast and there will come the new year! Recalling the past year, something looks better, but still something doesn’t satisfy me. In this semester, I quit the club, and take less courses than last semester. It seems that I may have more time. But I go to the cram school for the graduate school and start to have a monograph about photoelectric devices.
The most interesting thing is that our laboratory is in Academia Sinica rather than our school. It takes a long time whenever I went there because Academia Sinica is so far in Nangang. However, there are many very expensive and precision instruments, I learn a lot there.
The poor time management is always the thing that bothers me. Whenever I decide to do my homework, there’s a demon saying” Ten more minutes, just ten minutes, you need to relax.” Then I will relax for about two hours……. I have wished that I could have good time management for years, and this year is no exception. I wish I could manage my time well in the coming new year!
In this year, I 've found a lot of things I should learn and want to learn. I will work harder to make
Hope you all have a happy New Year!
Monday, November 30, 2009
Assignment 8 - ESL Podcast 528 – Negotiating Salary
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Assignments 7 - Steve Jobs' speech
commencement:
a ceremony at which students receive their academic degrees
tuition:
the money paid for this type of teaching
e.g.Few can afford the tuition of $12 000 a term.
subtle:
small but important
e.g.There is a subtle difference between these two plans.
renaissance:
a new growth of activity or interest in something, especially art, literature or music
e.g.Opera in Britain is enjoying a long-awaited renaissance.
diagnose:
to recognize and name the exact character of a disease or a problem, by examining it
e.g.The electrician has diagnosed a fault in the wiring.
dogma:
a fixed, especially religious, belief or set of beliefs that people are expected to accept without any doubts
polaroid cameras :
拍立得相機
farewell:
the money pwhen someone says goodbye
e.g.We said our sad farewells and got on the bus.
not scruple to do sth:
to not care that something you do is morally wrong or likely to have bad results
(b)
Jobs told us three stories in his speech. The first one is about that he did not scruple to drop out college for finding what he loved. The second is that even though he got very frustrated he still insisted in what he loved. The final one is telling us that everything is secondary, what you have to do is just have the courage and follow your heart and intuition.
In our society, it is almost impossible to do as what he said. There is a quote from Jean Jacques Rousseau, "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains." We are expected to do too many "right" things. Our voice in our soul is drawn out, we can't help but to follow the dogma.
Jobs told us to have the courage to find what we want and insist on it. I think it's true but it's not easy to do so. There are two problems: It's hard to find what we truly want. If you really find it, but it's not the "correct" thing the society admit, it's will very difficult to keep on. Jobs did not only have the courage to follow his heart but also the determination.
Making the conclusion, find what we "truly" want is important, not like I like to sleep or I love to hanging out and have a chat. And after figure out we truly want, we should spare no effort to do it.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Assignments 6 - Randall's Cyber Listening Lab
Level: medium
Topic: baking
Type: cooking show
Speakers: man - young woma
Length: 02:31