Yueqi+Wang


 * FIRST WEEK**

April 5th cloudy This is the first journal i have written. I want to write it for my roommate--Kathleen. Before i came to my new dorm, i worried about my new roommate. What would she look like? How would she be ? Could i get well with her? So many questions came about my brain. I just I would have a good roommate. Things went as I wish. The first time I met with Kathleen, she gave me a warm welcome. The first time we met each other, talked a lot. we all introduced our hometowns, our families, our majors and so on. The thing that most shocked me was she was just 19, and she was a sophomore. I just thought she was older than me cause she looked mature. Kathleen is a warm-heart, outgoing, beautiful girl. She is aware of what she will be in the future and would like to do the work has relationship with the tutoring. She works hard in her study. Also, she print some slogans to encourage herself to be excellent. Furthermore,. she knows how to schedule her time very well, besides studying, she always exercises with her friends every week. Coming to her kindness, she always answer my questions about every parts in the life. She gave me many suggestions about my academic courses, the regulations of the school life and some words that I do not know how to spell them. She is always patient with me and my mistakes in the language. One thing that makes me so comfortable is that she always stops her work to listen to me when I ask the questions. I hope I also can be her best friend and our relationship will stay forever.

April 6th sunny Today i want to talk about the differences of the education between China and America. The first thing is how to schedule your own classes. In China, the university will regulate your classes and schedule every class for every student while as American students,you should register your own classes and arrange the classes by yourself. As a consequence, I was crazy about registering classes and confused of the classes I choose. The second thing is how to take part in the classes and work efficiently in class. The atmosphere is vastly different from the Chinese one. The professors here have the equal status with the students. So you can raise any question you want and interrupt the professor at any time. The another aspect is the American students have more freedom in the classes. In China, students drinking water,eating snacks and doing the personal staffs look as the rude behaviors to professors. But they all do not matter in America. This also a way to show the freedom.

Now, i want to take some notes of the article that i remember. While the past few centuries witnessed the increasingly better quality of human life, human activity is doing more and more harm to the Earth. Natural resources are being depleted and the pollution is being created as a result of development of the technology. Natural areas are being damaged as a result of urban expansion to populate more people. First, we harm the Earth by using more an more natural resources. If we fell too many trees at one time to build houses and make paper or if we cut down trees before they grow to maturity, they can hardly grow back in time. As worrisome as overcutting of trees is overfishing. With improved technology and greater drive for money, fish of all kinds are being over haunted, reducing the biomass of some fish to the verge of extinction.

April 7th sunny The weather today is warmer, and has the sense of the summer. While I just change some thick clothes, many people wear the short t-shirt and short pants instead of the long ones. So I just puzzled that the American people don't feel cold?? This situation were seen when I was in the airport. This is a very strange scene. To be frank, the first time i came to OU, I found it is a really peaceful, beautiful and fantastic place. As i live here for three weeks, i gradually fall in love with my campus. every plant start to grow and the newer lives also come out. Everything here is comfortable. When you look around and try to feel the nature, here is it! Today, i also met Andrew, the gratuate student in philosophy. I met him the first time was in the baker, fourth floor, when he was playing the piano. He played so well that i admired him so much. Compared with him, i am just as a kid start to learn the piano. His level is the one i want to become. He can create his own song, also can play some pop music. That is really cool.

April 10th sunny Today is so hot!!! I could not imagine that the weather changes so quickly. Yesterday was winter, today just is summer. Changes become so fast that i feel so surprise. everything here is so nice and beautiful. the flower come out and the leaves hang on the trees. and the breeze blow softly. the sunshine is so strong. people all come out to feel the nature, they sit together and lie down on the lawn, laughing and saying together. people all enjoy the everything here, so do I.


 * SECOND WEEK**

April 11th another week is coming. i try to make some changes in this week. This is the first time i went to pink center, it is so nice and advanced. there are many exercises to take part in. i play the badmiton, racquetball, and basketball. this is the first time i played the racquetball, i was so excited but the thing was i couldnt play it well. i just think it is as easy as badmiton,but i was quietly wrong. i believe that the more i play it the better i will play.

April 12th it is so cold outside,and rained so heavily. the weather here is really strange. i couldnt imagine that today is just like winter. the rain makes people feel grumdy,and have bad feeling. i used to feel bad in the rainy day but i try to reduce the influence into mininum, because my feeling in one day can influnce the efficiency of the study. this is why i try to change this bad habit. i try to change every day so that i can make progress every day. Furthermore, i want to achieve the goals in the study and my life.

April 15th I had a awful day because my biology exam. I have imagined that i would fail this exam. Actually, i failed. The important thing is not the knowledge but the language and scientific words. I was so sad that i failed this exam cause it will influence my GPA. To be frank, I did not make every effort to prepare the exam. so i know what i will get. I want to take risk and face challenges so i come here. what i should do is to work hard, never forget the goal and aim i set for myself.

April 17th today, I did the homework of the reading skill. it is a hard article and there is so many new words i do not know. so i look for them in the dictionary, i try to be patient but i can not. I try to calm down, try to understand every word and sentence and train my ability to infer the meaning of it. eventually, i understand it. as for me, i make a progress. i am a little bit satisfied. another thing was excited was that i knew two good friends. Diana and Sarah. they are also the freshman. but this is their third quarter. they are very kind and have good personalitis, they were patient with what i said. and also give me many suggestions about the words i used. and if i can not understand the words they said ,Diana would spell them in her cellphone. they also invited me to their dorm. and we talked together and surfed the website. i am so glad that i can make friends with them.

April 18th today was a bad day. i tried to be confused with academica class again. i eventually found that the human biology was a really hard stuff that i could not overcome it. i tried several times in the classes and out of the classes. but the only thing i found it was the more we learned, the harder we would be. at first, i think i can figure it out with my persistant and diligence. but i finally found when we talked about the things i had no idears on i could not understand the whole class. this is a very frustrating thing for me. so i determined to drop it with the WP. on the other hand, WP will not influence my GPA. so this is a lesson i have to learned.
 * THIRD WEEK**

April 20th bad day today! but it was a little funny. the thing was i went to the OHIO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY to have my driving test. before i decided to take this test yesterday, i chatted a brother in qq. he told me he would have an interview today, as to show my wishes, i told him that i sent him all my luck to him tomorrow. he joked on me that i should not go out today cause maybe i would happen some bad things as a result that i did not have any luck for today. i laughed at him and think this joke is redicilous. Unfortunately, this really happened today haha---i failed the test with 11 wrong questions. but other two boys passed,although one of them did not review the book the same to me. So i have to go there again tomorrow morning and also i will have quiz of reading skills tomorrow..........cross fingers.....haha

April 21th This is my second time to go to take the driving test. With the preparation yesterday, i looked through all the signs in the book and remembered all the meaning of them. And i recalled all the mistakes that i did yesterday, tried to remember the answers of them. I went to there with my friend and he waited for me in the seats. i tried to be concentrated and careful as not to get more mistakes,this time i felt more confident and did the test more quickly. At the end, i just did 4 mistakes in the test and i finally got the temporary driving license, i was so happy!

April 24th Today is very normal, and I found since I droped the HUMAN BIOLOGY, I became more and more lazy. I worried about this situation and I was fear that I would be worse in the later days. I talked with my father in the internet.


 * Fourth Week--**

April 26th Oversleeping made me feel guilty this morning, but I had a bad sleep last night as a result of our building's fire alarm. I went to bed at 1 am, so I fell sleep quickly. When I was unconcious in the dream, I seemed to hear the stridulation. Finally, I was aweared of this sound, it was fire alarm. Unfortunately, we had to wear the clothes and get out of the building. But it was 2:30 am. We were sleeping. Actually, it was not the first time these days. We waited the fire engines coming, and dealed with the situation. Every time there was not some big problem, just maybe someone smoked in the room that caused the fire alarm ring. Bad day.

April 28th The weather this week was not good. I watched the news in the internet that Ohio had tornado this week. But Athens did not affected just rained these days. But the wind blew heavily. I found execise was a good thing that made people energetic. I went to pink center to play the badminton today. After playing that, I felt full of energy, and breath deeply.Seating in the desks and chairs every day made people more and more lazy and the best way to keep fit was also the exercise.

April 29th This week is moms' weekend. All my American friends' moms came to OU to celebrate this special week. OU also organized some activities to celebrate it.My friend Marina invited me to go to a African music and dance together. This was a wonderful concert. It divided to three parts: dancing, solo piano, and African songs and dances with piano.They did not use the electronic instruments and they just used drums to beat different rhythms. Everyone danced passionately and made their effort to dance and sing. The live was so hot that everyone clapped together and some body shouted for them.

April 30th I gradually found that the weekend was a bad thing for me because I could not schedule it very well. So it was a disaster when I wasted the weekend. But one thing that made me satisfied was that I could go to pink center to exercise. This afternoon, I went to there with my friends. We played the racketball, badminton. I played the badminton with the Iriq friend---zaid.We just made the rules by ourselves and try to play aganist with each other. We won one match each other,


 * FIFTH WEEK**

May 2th The weather here was so strange. You could not imagine how strange it was, Last few weeks, it was just like summer, but now it changed to 20 degree. It just liked winter. In my city, the climate also devided to four seasons. Also, the weather usually changes. But weather does not change like here. Also, It does not rain a lot. That is why I understand that rainboots become so commom and useful here.

May 3th Our math 250 class finally learned the new materail that I have not learned in my high school. But tell the truth, I did not think it was easy to master. We learned the normal distribution. This is for the continuous variable. The last chapter talks about the descrete random variable. First thing we studied was the definition of probability density funcion of the continuous random variable. The properties:1. the total area under the probability density curve is 1. 2. p(a=0 for all x.

May 5th Today's math class we continued the normal distribution. First we studied the probability of different types, the way to show the normal distribution. Second, we studied the symmetry: no skew case. skewed to left, and skewed to right. Third, we learned the peakedness: uniform, bell-shaped,peaked. Fourth,we learned the measure of the center:u and M.

May 6th Math class: 1.the population 100pth percentile(0<p<1) it is an x value such that the area in its left is p, and the area in its right is 1-p. 2. the standard variable Z. it is a random variable with the mean u and the standad deviation. The reading skill in Thursday, we had a quiz. my score was 81. I was not satisfied with it. This time I reviewed a lot but some I missed was the everyday word: onomatopoeia--noun---the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitaion of the sound associated with it.-buzz,cuckoo,meow,boom.


 * SIXTH WEEK-**

May 9th I like this article, so I recite it :choosing friends who are different chanllenged me to reassess the world-view.My best friend growing up in the United States is a recent immigrant from South Korea. His family is a traditional Korean family, espousing communal values over individualistic ones, and promoting tradition and respect before innovation. Being an American, however, I was raised with an individualistic attitude toward most aspects of life. Rather than ask for help ,I would often struggle to overcome challenges by myself. Spending time in his home made me ponder the opposing world views of 'communalism' and ' individualism'.

May 10th I continue: I eventually came to the conclusion that incorporating a bit of each perspective in my life provide would provide me with a greatest balance. However, without becoming friends with someone from different culture and mindset, I would have never had to confront my own way of viewing the world, and I would be the poorer for it. In conclusion, I prefer choosing friends that are dissimilar from myself. Having such friends has allowed me to learn from the skills that they have that I do not share. In addition, choosing friends who are different from me has helped me realize that opposing approaches to viewing and interacting to the world can be blended into a harmonious and personal world-view. Friends are vital to life, Having friends who are diverse is both a challenge and a joy. These two factors lead to a rich and rewarding life.

May 11th Today I went to zumba. This is my second time to go to zumba, it is a cardio. And when I danced it, I not only exercised, danced but also had fun. So, I tried to persist it every wednesday and saturday. This time I went with my friend. But a little bit pity that this teacher is not so good as the one last saturday, this one was not bad but the movements are not as many as the last time, so I did not exercise more.

May 13th Today was black Frday. Maybe because it was friday, so I failed the road test again. The policeman thought me driving too slowly so he thought I was not familiar enough to get the driving licence. I thought it was so unlucky, cause I had got the driving license at China, and I drove for several times. It was too complicated cause I rent the car from the friend. So, it was not convient to take a test.


 * SEVENTH WEEK--**

May 16th Today we learned the standard nomal distribution---N(0,1). This knowledge I had learned in senior high school, so it was not difficult for me. Just the English terms I had to be familiar with. I also now the bell-shape curve.

May 18th Oversleeping made me feel guilty this morning, but I had a bad sleep last night as a result of our building's fire alarm. I went to bed at 1 am, so I fell sleep quickly. When I was unconcious in the dream, I seemed to hear the stridulation. Finally, I was aweared of this sound, it was fire alarm. Unfortunately, we had to wear the clothes and get out of the building. But it was 2:30 am. We were sleeping. Actually, it was not the first time these days. We waited the fire engines coming, and dealed with the situation. Every time there was not some big problem, just maybe someone smoked in the room that caused the fire alarm ring. Bad day.

May 20th Today we went on the normal distribution. A family of special density functions, the mean value, and the standard deviation. Also, several numbers are important are 0.683,0.954,and 0.997. Furthermore, we learned the normal table.

May 21th Today we learned the problems about the normal distribution. Given the a to find the P. And given the P to find the a value. Now, we could use the table to do some basic problems.


 * EIGHTH WEEK---**

May 23th Bad week. from last Friday, I had a cold and had a fever. My friends sent me some medicine, after a long rest on night, I felt better.But I could not say a word, I lost my voice. Now, I had to eat many medicine. I hope I could be better soon,

May 24th Today we went on the normal distribution. We learned how to use the standard normal distribution to solve the problems related to the other distributions. Using the formula was very easy.

May 27th Today was my birthday. My friends gave me a big surprise. When it was 12am for 27th. My friend bought me a big birthday cake and we had a birthday party outside my building. It was so excited and happy that I could have the 20th birthday in America. Although I did not have this birthday with my parents, they said happy birthday to me.

May 28th This was the first time I took part the fest held in the south beach of OU. It was so fun and excited cause we played the tie-dye and blowing the bubbles and hula-hoop. I t was so nice outside but so hot. The sunshine and hot whether did not preclude our playing. I and my friends all had a indispendsable weekend.

It is the end of this spring quarter. The total number of journals is 32.