It's time to have a summary for my first semester studying abroad. I have a reflection about what the most different aspect compared to the one I used to study in is the way of how students are led to absorb the context practically. It gives students chances to manage well the task they are assigned, potentially forcing them to learn how to manage my time in a reasonable way and learning more about myself in or after the process of doing assignment.
The biggest difference between the concept of assignment here and my home country is that the assignment usually is comprehensive enough to include many knowledge points and relatively have a long length of time for student to complete. Such kind of task is a really good way let student to connect the basic knowledge learnt in several weeks, and is also a good way draw students' attention to prepare and have clear aims on the coming lessons after the publication of a assignment.
There are several realisation I made from doing the intensive assignments in this semester. As I had totally 8 assignments(2 for each unit), it is not easy to have them done if there is no well planed schedule. Some of my classmates prefer rushing the assignments intensively a few days before the due date. I don't think this is really a good idea. Working in this hard way will expose me to the risk of getting sick, and let me extremely negative about my course. This could be a huge negative effect on my motivation of what I am studying and passionate about. To avoid this situation, it would be much better to have a general idea of what a assignment require student to accomplish, most importantly finding out what are the difficult points in it and trying to have a plan to tackle the problems bit by bit. In this way, it could be much easier to balance my time, giving me satisfaction and confidences after addressed a small problem.
This kind of comprehensive assignments in small number gave me a big picture of the units, helping me gain a better understanding the units in a concrete way.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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