Study

There are so many things to do that I suddenly feel panicked and don’t know where to start. Practice spoken English and writing. Preview upcoming course content and review parts of past courses I didn’t fully understand. Start reading literature and determine my research direction. It’s time to start using my to-do app again; only self-discipline can solve these problems. I studied phonetic symbols and practiced shadowing tonight. It’s hard to pronounce sounds that don’t exist in Chinese unless we build muscle memory through practice. ...

I don’t know why Huan and I always get an unhappy mood at end of every discussion. I have the main reason for this argument. I felt better after calling with Feng—He told me don’t pay much more attention to these slight differences. It’s very normal because every one has the different personalities and backgrounds. Unless gambling and drug abuse, we should give anything else more tolerance. I redeemed an extra large coffee at Tim Hortons by points. I drank too much coffee and I first time felt the power of coffee; I thought it was useless before. ...

I watched phone too long today. I polished and submitted the final assignment of sensing. I prefer to the individual assignment rather than group work. I don’t like my chair because it is a little bit tall. I will choose to kneel on the ground to use the computer.

Daytime was normal time. We had a coffee time in the afternoon. Kourush played a piano music 🎹 for us, and Amir sang two songs for us. Chat leaded us to play the cheating game. It’s very nice. After then, Amir invited me to go shopping. I preferred to go T&T, but he thought the price is too high, so we walked over to Walmart under very cold snow. My tummy was not feeling good, and I didn’t know what’s reason. I bought some instant meal in T&T. ...

I didn’t sleep well recently, plus last night worked on Huan’s visa. I felt very sleepy today. A doesn’t want to do the common work when I was doing too much. I don’t like this.

I didn’t do too much work today, we had an office hour today. After that, I felt boring and lazy. Went home very early.

I didn’t sleep well last night and felt very down. Today was equally difficult. We had our last class at noon, where we had to give our final presentation. At the end of the presentation, Dr. Mohammad asked us a question, but I was unable to answer it. I felt immediately sad and ashamed. Ultimately, Dr. Mohammad gave us a score of 13/15. He is a very kind person, but in that moment, I felt like I had disappointed him. ...