Lin Yuan
Eng 100
Assignment 1: Adaptive Mindset
Due:10/20/2015
Always Thrive
My flight landed on the airport of Detroit on August 15, 2010. With a goal of learning Data Science, I came to the United States who has the best curriculums and professors in this field. Before coming out, I heard studying abroad is stressful. But I chose to challenge it. Because I believe I have growth mindset. I believe I can become professional as the professors by working hard in Data Science.
Under the pressure of earning foreigner tuition, I started makingmoney from the second week of my new journeyinstead of going to school.After two years of hard-working, in September 2012, I started school in West Chester Universitywith a terrible English both in speaking and writing.In order to graduate earlier, I took five courses. Consequently, in the beginning of the semester, I paid the price of overestimating myself. I had to spend more than 7days a week in preparing classes and doing assignments. Even so, I still couldn't catch up with the classes. Especially in the classes of World History and Ethics, I completely didn't understand what professors and students were talking about. The only word I said in the whole semester of History class was "water." Every Ethics class began with a small test. Most times I didn't comprehend the questions. In order to take scores from the test, I always wrote down some words which were probablyunrelated to the questions at all.
Facing to such a hard time, I didn't allow myself to create any excuses that possibly wilt myself. Every morning, I spared my bedtimeto read English loudly for 30 minutes. Also, I downloaded English conversations from Podcasts into my phone. Whenever taking bus to commute between home and school, I listened to the conversations again and again until to the point of being able to dictate the dialogue 100% correctly. Meanwhile, I insisted in attending every class and finishing every homework no matter how hard the situation was. My effort were not wasted. I found myself spent less time in doing assignments and could have a short conversation with people. At the end of semester, I got three "A"s, one "B", and one "C".
Now I am majoring Mathematics in Delaware County Community College. Currently, my GPA is 4.0. I will transfer to Drexel Universityin fall 2016 to learn Data Science. Though I still make a lot of mistakes in vocabularies and grammars, I have made a significant progress.
Suppose that I didn't trustmyself and gave up from the first day of the school, there wouldn't be any change on me. I would still struggle in English. This negative attitude would discourage me constantly until to the last day of my life.
Every flight has countless dangers, like crashing when landing or being hit by thunder. However, thepotential dangers can't disrupt the passenger's determination of getting to destination. Likewise, the people who have growth mindsetshould always thrive.
Eng 100
Assignment 1: Adaptive Mindset
Due:10/20/2015
Always Thrive
My flight landed on the airport of Detroit on August 15, 2010. With a goal of learning Data Science, I came to the United States who has the best curriculums and professors in this field. Before coming out, I heard studying abroad is stressful. But I chose to challenge it. Because I believe I have growth mindset. I believe I can become professional as the professors by working hard in Data Science.
Under the pressure of earning foreigner tuition, I started makingmoney from the second week of my new journeyinstead of going to school.After two years of hard-working, in September 2012, I started school in West Chester Universitywith a terrible English both in speaking and writing.In order to graduate earlier, I took five courses. Consequently, in the beginning of the semester, I paid the price of overestimating myself. I had to spend more than 7days a week in preparing classes and doing assignments. Even so, I still couldn't catch up with the classes. Especially in the classes of World History and Ethics, I completely didn't understand what professors and students were talking about. The only word I said in the whole semester of History class was "water." Every Ethics class began with a small test. Most times I didn't comprehend the questions. In order to take scores from the test, I always wrote down some words which were probablyunrelated to the questions at all.
Facing to such a hard time, I didn't allow myself to create any excuses that possibly wilt myself. Every morning, I spared my bedtimeto read English loudly for 30 minutes. Also, I downloaded English conversations from Podcasts into my phone. Whenever taking bus to commute between home and school, I listened to the conversations again and again until to the point of being able to dictate the dialogue 100% correctly. Meanwhile, I insisted in attending every class and finishing every homework no matter how hard the situation was. My effort were not wasted. I found myself spent less time in doing assignments and could have a short conversation with people. At the end of semester, I got three "A"s, one "B", and one "C".
Now I am majoring Mathematics in Delaware County Community College. Currently, my GPA is 4.0. I will transfer to Drexel Universityin fall 2016 to learn Data Science. Though I still make a lot of mistakes in vocabularies and grammars, I have made a significant progress.
Suppose that I didn't trustmyself and gave up from the first day of the school, there wouldn't be any change on me. I would still struggle in English. This negative attitude would discourage me constantly until to the last day of my life.
Every flight has countless dangers, like crashing when landing or being hit by thunder. However, thepotential dangers can't disrupt the passenger's determination of getting to destination. Likewise, the people who have growth mindsetshould always thrive.