毕业答辩错过了《综合英语(四)》的期中考,找老师争取了2次,获得一个弥补的机会——写一篇1500字的 GRE 作文。
最后去交稿的时候,老师跟我说他故意给我提高难度的,这让我有些意外。其实收到这个任务的时候挺开心的,又遇到一个帮助我的人,他的要求正好可以让我练习写作。在他给的3周时间里,一周看 GRE 的题库、评分标准和范文,一周理思路、找素材,最后一周动手写。没想到他让提前4天交,最后真正写的时间不足3天。
一段一段地写,写完放到批改网纠错,在批改网改完再粘贴到 Word 里继续往下写。最后超出了批改网的字数限制,拆成2篇之后完成了初步修改。
第一次写这么长的英文作文,深深觉得自己词穷到无法言说,再一次体会到上学期骆洪老师的话“读和写是最难的”。真的如此,脑子里没有积累,实在是拿不出东西来,不经过练习,勉强拿出来的东西也不好,自己看着都不满意。
老师的整体评语是太 Chinglish,具体的细节还没收到反馈,周五拿到老师批改之后的版本再进行修改。
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老师没有给出反馈。跟他要反馈,是为了自己进行修改的时候能从他人的眼光去看,毕竟准备了挺长时间。
可是,那个老师一直言而无信,反复好多次了,刚开始他说他要登分,没有带过来;后来说他把我的稿子弄丢了,等他找一下;
之后说稿子没找到,让我重新交一份;
重新交了一份之后,他说看完之后下次给我反馈;
最后一次课我找他的时候,他居然说让我下周一找他......
当时我真的在心里把他骂了好多遍,真是够了。
老师,您把自己说的话当空气吗?还是故意整我?
就因为我要那个反馈,就这么三番五次地折腾人?
你是变态吗?
好吧,您的反馈我不要了!!!
我自己改!!!
后来他说让我把他的手机号码记一下,给他发短信告诉他我的邮箱,他拍照片给我。之后,我发了短信告诉他我的邮箱。
我知道,他不会把反馈给我的,如果给了,是奇迹。只是,在同学面前让他好看一点。
要不是因为没有考期中考、担心得罪他,他让我挂科,然后我拿不到第二专业的证书,辅修大业功亏一篑,我......
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最后的结果是,我毕业了,没有收到关于这篇作文的反馈。
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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensive, but more complex and mysterious.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Disagree
Knowledge and Things
Surely many of us have expressed the following sentiment, or some variation on it, during our whole life: "Unknown becomes all the more enormous as we acquire more knowledge." Surrounded as we are by striding and strident technology development and intensive branches of science. Knowledge is soaring increasingly, when we drain our brains to acquire more knowledge about things only to find that things are waved together in different ways and to various extents, and they become complex and mysterious. However, the rule of everything is simple.
From my personal point of view, everything will be precise and easily comprehended with knowledge increasing and widening. During high school, I made efforts to study such subjects as mathematics, physics, language, biology, chemistry, geography, history, music and psychology to be cultivated and civilized and to acquire more knowledge about the men and the world than ever. After entering university, I have been trying to deepen and widen what I had known through books in various topics and fields. At the beginning, I was gradually disturbed with the fear and uncertainty of being innocent with the world because of the endless opinions and knowledge. When I tried to connect what I had got and to wave a net of them, I found that things were no more intricate and complicated. Those feelings trapped me into the depth of innocence and blindness. Nevertheless, after investigating more in fields which puzzled me and scanning through more materials, connection and demarcation of knowledge become infinite and clear. I will try to demonstrate my opinion based on my experience of exploit in knowledge from different aspects.
What interested me first is language. Language is one of the greatest creations of humanity as the tool of communication, it marks the division between mankind and other animals. In my childhood, I was always fond of reading and reciting kinds of Chinese ancient poems, tongue twisters and short essays, which gave me an enjoyable and relaxing school life. This hobby has been continuing till now. In the classes of university later, I got the idea that language has more functions and meanings than I have thought. Interculturally, language is a window of communication, which includes verbal language and nonverbal language and both of them are regarded unnecessary in communication in different nations in the trend of globalization. Different languages bridge the gap between each other all across the globe, and is something common beyond language which is often defined as emotions and feelings, which are men's instincts that conceive kindness or unfriendliness from others. At the first time, I experienced the grandness of men as well as the tolerance and diversity of the world, and I began to reflect on that complex language communication could be demonstrated into a principle of humanity.
In terms of my knowledge about psychology, it was originated form my moodiness during adolescence. I was always moody and had no friends, and I wanted to know the reason of that and to find ways in changing the situation. Just as hanging over shelves in book store, I found a book written by a psychologist for adolescent puzzles, which gave me a straw to step out. From then on, I have been acquiring knowledge and information concerning psychology. Psychology is a point of regular triangular pyramid which composed with other three dots of philosophy, natural science and social science. Generally speaking, it is a synthetic discipline focuses on human behavior and mental activities. Lately, I found that all of the reasons and backgrounds of people's behavior are not important and necessary because I find from books in varied research in psychology that the essence of psychology is love, and what I need to do is to listen to everyone I meet carefully and express timely my kindness and mercy. This encourages me, because the conclusion is just as sample as I learned in youth that to be friendly to other kids. It is the knowledge of men's mental necessity and my perception to them gives me a pleasing environment in dealing with others. It is convincing that acquiring more knowledge helps apprehending things simply.
With the encouragement of comprehension in psychology, I began to do the same in other topics through perusing a number of materials.
Computer science gives me another perspective to learn the essence of things. It seems to be intricate and inexplicable when hearing terms of Data Structure, Software Engineering, Database Theories, Computer Network and Programming, but actually they obey the same instruction of making the Internet operating smoothly and user-friendly as soon as possible. What surprises me most is that the organization of the theories could be viewed as a compositive application and optimization of man's behavior and interaction. My senior thesis plays on an optimization theory which was originated and created from the behavior of bird swarms, the relations between such a complex and complicated algorithm and solutions of practical problems are incredible and mysterious, which gives me an impression that the nature and the world are so abundant that it breeds creature with invisible power. And science and technology are advanced but at the same time they are simple and precise. I am in awe of that no matter what improvement or breakthrough in human, the man needs a consciousness of appreciation and altruism to other creatures.
Nutrition is a branch of newly developed science last century, which focuses on how to keep physical health through getting enough and balanced nutrients from food. Statistically, one need to have seventy thousand meals and his body have to deal with nearly fifty tons of food in the entire life. The body is a great worker that supports men to finish all of activities and turns round without rest by obtaining energy from food in digestive system and circulatory system with the participation of a lot of organs. When I firstly pay attention to the food and physical health, I was surprised and shocked by the complex mechanism of my body, and I was guilty of ignoring it for a long time in unconsciousness. As I getting more about different nutrients’ levels in various food, lifestyle and health condition and the connection of health and exercise, I realized it is no more significant that health is No.1 and most people have ignored it. Although I always enjoy in exercise, the acquisition of the knowledge in nutrition strengthens my awareness that being healthy need to take notice of all aspects of my body, which including choice of routine, selection and composition of food, exercising as well as mental situation. Following such rules, my life has been simple and relaxed. Again, I was aware of the power of knowledge, which makes man wise and things simple.
Since I started in cosmos and human, I let myself in for another immense and mysterious world. The theory of relativity, quantum mechanics and chaos theory, the origin of man and the revolution of man and technology gave me an overwhelming load in my brain, but fortunately, I focused on the crude level and tried to find some common ground among them. In perspective of conservation of energy in physics, everything exists all across the globe is reasonable and all are devoted for the balance of the universe, but the procession with such vast a system with complex things is occult and inviting. I recollected opinions and facts from single subjects I had learned in previous time, and realized they were independent disciplines and theories. And each single subject explains how the subsystem goes round and reveals its laws and orders, respectively. Microscopically, I got a part about the world in the specific field. Macroscopically, I attained a great net with interlaced contents including all the branches I had involved. I found that as there are a wild variety of matters the system works in a simple way--mutualism. The cosmos rules everything with the principle of balance, which makes the living thrive over generations. It is easy to understand that knowledge helps one know the world from whole and everything seems complex and complicated can be simplified with such eyes.
In brief, acquiring knowledge as much as possible helps one know more details about things and get wide and deep connections between concepts, and it is a cycle of waving forward which will make a wise man. Living in the constantly changeable world that any impact would sweep across the world, men have to look the world with as clarified thoughts as possible to adopt it, and knowledge is a good companion.