Love/Hate
It’s not about love or hatred. It’s all about other classes except English composition at WIUU. Well, from the very beginning American programme attracted me more than Ukrainian. Frankly saying, American teachers give their students the unique opportunity to be creative and to demonstrate their individuality. I always was against plagiarism and C&P because I’m a journalist and I sometimes suffer from other people who steal my articles and ideas without any rights. Once my site was removed from the web ‘cause one of my opponents stole some information, put it on her own page and told my server hoster I was the one to steal. And all of it happened because I forgot to protect my site by the copyright. That’s why I completely support American educational system which allows a lot but not plagiarising.Concerning the subjects, I love history most of all, but we had it only in the first semester and only in Ukrainian programme. So I stayed unsatisfied. I cannot say I received a lot from that classes. I dreamt to study Scandinavian history as well, but we were forced to study only Ukrainian. The most enjoyable subjects for me right now are business English (I never had problems with American English due to my combination of nationalities in the family), religion (I’m especially curious about pagan peculiarities), computer technologies (I’m a prof in this sphere due to my huge web-designing experience) and English composition (I admire writing, but, unfortunately, sometimes I don’t have enough time for itL ). I cannot say that I really hate something, but… Oh, yes, I do. I hate philosophy. I won’t argue that this discipline is very interesting and wise, but our teacher is reading monotonosely every lecture without explaining us anything and having any eye contact with students. And that is an awful disadvantage of any teacher. Also I don’t like law. The teacher is great, but the subject itself is a bit boring. Many students hate maths, but I think the discipline is fine. Probably, the teacher seems too strict to them, I don’t know. Anyway, I’m doing best in macroeconomy (UA), maths (UA), business English (US), religion (UA), CT (UA) and PE (actually, I’m the only person who attends physical education regularlyJ ). I cannot say anything about philosophy or English composition because we don’t have any grades or results yet. I’m a bit behind in introduction to international business because I missed one exam because of illness. The same small problem exists with the law, but the marks on the whole are excellent. On the whole, I could be an “A” student, but still I’ll have few “Bs”. I know for sure. Well, this semester was better than the previous one. I received two “Cs” then… L
kristinagray said,
May 3, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Yes, I know you could be an “A” student but it seems you were distracted last semester with your job and other responsibilities. I really appreciate your comments about plagiarism and C&P and how it deeply affected you. I think you could be a very impressive writer if you have the passion to write and follow in your family’s tradition of being a journalist. It is hard work and I have seen you apply yourself more this semester. Keep up doing the blogging and I look forward to what you come up with in your research paper.