Maybe the articles in this blog should be more in easy format because there is always a person whose “evil” job is to keep track of what I wrote every two weeks to see if my writing skill is progressing. Fortunately, this person is a cute and nice young lady so I am still sort of doing this as an entertainment; but the unfortunate thing is (being so honest) my English writing skill has no big progress since two years ago. Specifically, at 2008, my SAT writing score was 390/800 and at 2009, it was 490/800. My TOFEL score for writing was 18/30 at 2008, and it was still 18/30 at 2009. You may think it might because I was not trying hard to improve my writing skill, but what I want to say is I do like writing but writing paper in essay format is such a pain. All the essay topics I’ve met were so abstract that I had no idea how to get a good score on them; therefore this article will not be in an essay format. I would like to share the best and the worst thing I am experiencing those two weeks.
First are the worst things: I just received a really poor grade on my ECE190 exam. I am not a study type of person but this grade is absolutely the lowest grade I’ve ever got my entire life. The reason why I chose engineering is I do not need to do a lot of papers, but now I really want to change my major because I am afraid I may not be able to graduate as an ECE student. Another worst thing is I feel so bored in the weekend!!!! I do not know where to go and the only thing I am doing is playing video games all day… why do I have so much homework??? It is even more than the homework I have in high school. I thought college should be easier. So many tough things… I feel so depressed. I want to forget all of this.
The best things are the followings: ... I really cannot think about any. Maybe I can have a good sleep today is the best thing because I messed up my time schedule for preparing my ECE190 exam last week.
Well, thanks for reminding me of my 'evil' job, and for the nice compliment! :)
ReplyDeleteI totally understand your pain, but it really takes time to improve one's writing skill. Every language learner has similar plateau experience that seems to last forever, which is not true at all. I recommend you read books and professional articles focusing on your major. It would be also good to type the articles looking at the sentence structures, vocabulary, and certain grammar rules. Just reading tons of books and magazines doesn't help. You're supposed to focus on writing skills that other authors are using while you read their works. ;D