Capstone Reflection Paper

Zhiqi Li | 2024 | Reflection Paper

Reporting

This year, I learnt a lot from every courses. Haven’t recovered from the relax after the University Entrance Examination, I was not adapted to the environment here at the beginning. But thanks to the ENGL110 and ENGL111, I made many friends here and gradually get used to studying here. Here, I gained knowledge about Computer Science, and successfully CODO into CS major. I made many friends, who became an important part in my life. I also met my boyfriend Ke here in ENGL110. I am too much grateful to this class. It is a relax for me between the busy CS courses. Here in the reflection paper, I mainly want to talk about how I change myself.

Relating

At the very first, I met Arina in ENGL110. We are groupmates during the BGRi. She became someone I merely talked to during class. She is someone who always encourage me to tell my story and opinions, and who always being patient to listen to me and trying to understand me. I was so lucky to meet her here. She gave me the courage to speak up in class and dare to social with other foreigners in class. Later, I met my boy friend here. He is someone who always being outgoing and happy. I want to spend my time here being happy and positive. I fell in love with him, and he filled my life with happiness and surprise. I became positive and hopeful towards my study life here. This semester, my courses became hard. I was too struggling in these courses that I can hardly took care of my life. My roommate sometimes broke the agreement, which made me unable to rest well. I was suffering from everything around and felt a huge sense of stressful. I have to say, ENGL111 brought me some sense of comfort. Project 1 taught us how to use ChatGPT, and Project 2 taught us how to do hands-on research by ourselves. Everything here seemed to teach us some skills hand by hand, and you can see your improvement as soon as you devote into the project. The improvement I saw here gave me a huge sense of achievement and success that encourage me to not give up and go further. 

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 Reasoning

It is easy to figure why this course help me that a lot. As I came here with no one I was familiar with, I had no idea how to start making friends here with other international students and felt a bit fear to talk to local students. But in a large lecture, it is so hard to find someone to talk with and make friends with. Everyone had no ideas about each other. But here, I got familiar with each other, we learnt by cooperation with each other and kept confident when sharing our own culture and own experience. We always know who we are here. I made many friends here, some of them become good friends in my life. And I hope to keep in touch with everyone I met here. 

Reconstructing

In the future, I hope I can always remember these wonderful hours. Learning from this year, I was so surprised how I can survive that hard time and keep manage my time efficiently. I already grew up and owned the ability to face pressure. If I met any difficulties, I think this experience can always be my power to move forwards.