Shiquan+Yang

January 19, 2011

This is my first writing journal. Also, it is my first journal that I will finish it online. I remembered that I always wrote on a A4 paper before this quarter. It is not easy like this way, because I need to use eraser to fix my mistakes. It seems dirty on my paper. What's more, in order to forget to take my assignments, I have to put them in my bags even though I do not have class. However, I believe this is a hi-tech world, so we will finish all assignments online. It is easy to hand in and my assignments looks good because I can change the size and color of my words. It is fashion and interesting, and I think my classmates like this personalized idea, so do I. Moreover, I found lots of university have begun to take classes online, maybe we can try to avoid to go outside when the weather is cold.

January 19, 2011

I have finsihed my first journal and I feel good becaue I like using computer to finish my homework. I think more and more people will like this life style and enjoy it. Most time, I use it to surf online and communicate with my family members and friends. Also, I play some computer games on my free time. I like to go to a real store like Warlmart, Kroger or best buy when I decide to buy some items. However, I found a easier way that buying those stuff online. First of all, I know the price of all the sellers. If I buy a production on the real store, the price never change and it is higher than the price online. So, I can save money. Third, in general, I can compare all kinds of production when I am not sure which one is better. Of course, many customers give a credit for the production and the seller. So, I can easily choose one perfect item. All of those benefits make me feel good shopping online. I feel I will never lose my computer and Internet because they have become one part of my daily life.

January 19, 2011

This is my third journal. I still want to talk about the benefits of Internet and computers. Ooops..maybe I should change my topic. Yeah..weather is a good topic. I have been Athens for about two years. I found it is a wonderful city and it has interesting and kindhearted people and fresh environment. Whereas, this is my first winter quarter since two years ago. Last quarter, I stayed in China and took a good vacation with my parents to enjoy the Chinese new year! That is a good memory, but I did not have a chance to look at the snow in Athens. Even though there are snow in my hometown, it is not big and usual. Sometimes it snowed once or twice every one month in winter. In athens, I feel it is a beginning of my winter quarter. I like snow and hope more snow will come soon.

January 20, 2011

Maybe I wrote too much yesterday, so I feel like I could not write nothing except the weather. It is snowing outside, and I found it really bring a lot of problems to everyone. Unfortunately, I saw an accident on core street this afternoon. One pickup crashed the other pickup. I am sure if there is not snow at that time, that would not happen. The road was so slippery that I almost fell over sometimes. What's more, people have to clean up the snow even though the snow has not stopped. Especially, I have to clean my car after the snow stop falling. However, I expect to see a real snow like Newyork. I heard there was about 60 cm deep. I have never seen a big snow like that, so I am excited now and hope it will be huge.

January 20, 2011

I will have a chemical quiz tomorrow. It makes me feel nervous, because I have not prepared well. I do think OPIE test is much easier than that one. It is really hard to chemistry even though I felt good when I studied chemistry in China. Because of many chemical vocabulary, so I almost do not understand what teacher talk about on class. I have to pay more attention after class to study and review those knowledge. It is painful, but I will try harder to overcome this class.I have to review my quiz documents right now or I will get a bad grade tomorrwo. That is not what I want. Good luck to me.

January 21,2011

Today, I finished my lab project in Math 263b with my group. Then, I really understood two significant points. First of all, I realized that I could not complete a perfect project by myself, but if I did it with my group workers, they would provide a lot of interesting and critical ideas. So, we could combine those ideas and choose the most useful ideas in our project. Secondly, we must finish it as a good group. When one of a group members just want to share those useful resources and do not attend any group meeting, it will cause the some problems in this group. What's worse, if everyone has same idea like the first people and just wait for the others, the project must have a low grade.

January 22, 2011

I will have a math quiz on Monday. I prepared it with my friends in Alden library today. I found a lot of problems that I do not know how to slove. So, I had to devote the whole day to focus on my math. I felt that many points I learned in China. It seems that I am familiar with that knowlegde. However, when it is translated to English, I am coufused. Even though I seem will take full academic study soon, I still have a lot of language problems. Espeically, I study Chemistry 152 this quarter. Because of those chemical vocabulary, I feel hard. Today, I am lucky because my Chinese classmates have known those vocabularies totally, and I can ask him about my problems. I appreciated his help or I had to spend one more day to review my math.

January 23, 2011

Today is Sunday, because the Alden library will open at 12:00 pm, I can sleep until 10:00 am. I bought a new phone, iphone 3gs. This is the first time that I use iphone, but I have heard some iphone benefits from my friends. The most important reason I decided to buy the iphone is the lower price. The att carrier decrease the price to only $49.00 dollars because the Apple company will finish their new iphone, iphone 5. Since I used the iphone, I have found a lot of interesting and wonderfull apps. For example, I downloaded a app that has a periodical table of elements, So, my major is Chemistry, it surely will make my study easy, insteading of taking a heavy Chemistry book. What's more, it has a weather forecast app. It will give me information about the tempreture and I could make a good decision for choosing my clothes.

January 25, 2011

I have taken the midterm quiz of Chemistry 152. It is a little hard that I did not finish all the questions. I am not sure what is the problems at that time, because I have finished all assignments that Dr. Brown gave us. Also, I solved problems which he showed on class. Finally, I got my problems. Even though I did all assignments after class, but I can not do them quickly. Because of thinking too much during the test, I can not finish my quiz in time. I think I need to think the about principles carefully after I did my homeworks.

January 27, 2011

I found it is almost Chinese New Year. My friends told me, and she helped me buy a few tickets. I am excited and I told this good news to my partners on Chemistry 152 Lab. Mike and Travis was also excited after they heard this news. Because they never ate Chinese food, they want to try it on the Chinese new year celebration. I told many things about the Chinese New Year. It is very important in China. At that time, people must go back to their homes, and celebrate this wonderful and interesting holiday with their family members. However, we can not go back as international students, so we do this celebration to enjoy the great holiday.

January 28, 2011

Today, I have been to the preparation meeting of the Chinese new Year. Everyone worked hard on that meeting and tried to do best in the show. Even though they are not full time actors. They did their parts very carefully. They always practiced every shows again and again in detail. I feel this good show will never let audience down because all the Chinese and American actors worked hard. They tried best to show the Chinese culture to the great university.

January 30, 2011

I found I do not have too much homework this weekend. Maybe I just took the midterm quiz last week. However, If I want to have a great grade this quarter, I have to work much harder than the others. So, I reviewed the knowledge just now. I heard that Ohio University will change quater to semister in 2012. I do not know too much information about the semisters in college. I feel it will become harder than quarter. Because every quarter will take longer time. Moreover, we have to study more knowledege in every semister.

February 1, 2011

Today, it is a very funny day. I went to take my chemistry 152 class. Howver, I have to practice my program in Chinese New Year Celebration, so I have to leave the class more early than usually. When I left, my friend saw it and texted me. He said there was a quiz after you left. So, I had to send email to my professor and told him about the absence. My professor told me there was no quiz in class. I believed my friend cheated me!!

February 2, 2011

My friend told me there was only three weeks left before the winter break so far. I can not believe that, because I just feel the interesting and wonderful quarter has begun for about one week. However, I have to realize that the time past fast more than my mind. So, I have to

February 4, 2011

I have to say that the practice for the celebration is really boring and I felt so tired that I could not move one feet. I just came back to my dorm and the time is 11 a.m. All things we did were just for the Chinese New Year celebration. Today, it happened a bad thing among the actors. So, I have to replace one important actor in a historical show. It is really funny and interesting, but I did not prepare any thing for that program. I think I can not sleep tonight for reading and praticing the new role on that program. Even though we met a lot of problems before the celebration, I still believe that we will hold a great and wonderful celebration on tomorrow.

February 6, 2011

Finally, the show has finished and I think our program is an interesting show. However, I can not follow all the direction from the director because I did not prepare well in 12 hours. Therefore, I just can do a few simple actions and movement with my partners. On the other hand, I think we did a good job because all the audiences seemed happy and enjoyable. That is the most important point of the celebration. Everyone came to the show was just for fun. Finally, someone even said that is the most interesting and perfect Chinese New Year celebration in their minds. I felt happy when I heard this new.

February 9, 2011

It is a bad day. I went to class after I got up. When I walked out, I found there was a lot of ices outside. I almost fell down when I were walking. Unfortunately, my friend told me that she fell down in the morning. Anyway, I hope it will be warm and no ice any more.

February 10, 2011

Today, I learn to use photoshop. I heard this interesting and mysterious software long time ago. I found there was a lot of function in it. However, I was not sure the functions of them. Especially, the language was English. I was really confused about those functions. So, I had to push every button to make sure the different meanings. Finally, after I got the meanings, and it seems not too hard.

February 12, 2011

Yesteraday, I went to Columbus and had fun with my friends. We took the Chinese food in there and the name of restaurant is sunflower. The foods is different with those restaurants in Athens. Therefore, most Chinese students prefer to go to that resturant for lunch or dinner.

February 13, 2011

Maybe I should conclude that bad thing to yesterday. My friend drove too fast when he went back to Athens. So, three officers gave him a speeding ticket. So, he had to pay a $140 ticket. Surely, he should recieve a ticket because he drove almost 90m/h, and my friends on his car were scared.

February 15, 2011

I got midterm quiz on Chemistry 152 today. I felt not so good on that quiz, because I didnt finish all the questions. Some of them are difficult to solve and caculate. However, I almost figured out all the questions on the midterm test of last quarter before testing.

February 16, 2011

Finally, I finished my midterm quiz on Chemistry 152. However, I got the other midterm quiz on Math 263. Hope that it is not too difficult like Chem 152. I feel it is not too hard on first midterm quiz of this quarter. Indeed, Math is much more easy than Chem in my mind.

Februray 19, 2011

Today, I saw an exciting event on TNT. That is the NBA all stars weekend. I am a fan of NBA game. I especially like Los Angeles Lakers and Kobe Bryant, the star of Lakers. However, the event on Saturday is skillful event, slam dunk, and 3-point game. It is wonderful on slam dunk game. Los Angeles Clippers hold this all star weekend and Griffin, the star of Clippers won the game of slam dunk.

February 20, 2011

The NBA all star weekend just finished. I saw all the games and Western all star team won the game. Kobe Bryant got the MVP of the game. He made 42 points and it is the highest point in that game. Also, he made another achievement on that game, because he has won 4 MVP prize on his 13 all star games.

February 22, 2011

I got my grade on Math 263b. It surprised me because I got 100.I believed it was not too hard. However, I found the average grade was about 60 points. I thought I like Mathmatics because I found I could really do it well and I would try harder to make a good final grade.

February 24, 2011

I am pretty sad because I got a ticket tonight. When I came back from my friends' apartment, I made a violation on the stop light. I thought I could go through crossing when the light was just turning yellow. However, I was told to be court on Monday. Oh, my god.

February 25, 2011

Today, I finally got my key of Lexus. At the beginning of winter, I lost my key and my friend try to send the other one via mail. However, it lost on the way and I only got an empty box. It embarrased me, and then I have to contact the dealer in Columbus. They told me that I had to tow my car to dealer shop. It would cost about $800 totally, So, I contacted a lock service in Parksburg. Then, they came here and reseted a new system. Finally, it works.

February 27, 2011

Today, my friend and his parents came from China and I went to Columbus to pick them up. His parents love our university very much because he thought this is more fresh and comfortable place than China. So, they prefer to stay here longer. And they will go to New York after two days later.