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2018 大三出國輔導通報 -


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2018大三出國輔導通報系統 - 留學心得報告[編輯]
資軟 405850388  邱宇凡  留學學校:加州州立大學長堤分校

(一)基本資料

Studied in Cal state university, Long Beach for 2 semesters. From August 2018 to May 2019.(13字)

(二)課程學習

照片說明:Wood Table I made in Design Materials and Tools

【照片說明:Wood Table I made in Design Materials and Tools】

During this year in Long Beach, I have took a lot of different courses, I have studied American Language Institute in Fall 2018, and then took four general study courses in spring 2019 with credits, which their names are Beginning of Web Design, Design Materials and Tools, World Regional Geography and Fundamentals of Spanish. If I got to choose one of these courses as my favorite course, then it will be Design Materials and Tools. Before I take the course, I expect it will help me learn some graphic design like how to design a house or a room, and draw all the stuff on a paper, however, it turns out to be a class of woodworking, teaching us how to use some woodworking machine to make some wood project, totally out of my expectation. I remembered the first time I walked into the class and saw those plenty of cool woodworking machines, I was shocked and surprised, and was thinking "are we going to use these stuff in class!?" And Yes, at the first lesson of the class, the professor told us we are going to use these machines to make a wood table as a final project. I learned a lot from this class, to design a thing and manufacture it is not that easy. I have to draw layout of a table by imagination at the beginning, include the length, width, ratio of the table. And then, when I started cutting the woods, I have to do it slowly and patiently, step by step, if one degree or one length goes wrong, it might waste the whole piece of wood or even ruin the whole project. I have a hard time while doing these stuff, but after I finished my table, it all worthy and enjoyable, and I learned patient and make a good plan before doing something.(309字)

(三)生活環境

照片說明:"GO BEACH"Sign in campus

【照片說明:"GO BEACH"Sign in campus】

Long Beach city lies on the southern of the Los Angeles County, it is one of the cities which on the pacific coast, with the Mediterranean climate, the weather here is very comfortable, it usually sunny and warm, only few days rainy, and it is very cold sometimes during the winter season. There is one big difference of the weather between Long Beach city and Taiwan. When it is sunny in Taiwan, I got my body sweat within five minutes as I exposed in front of the sunlight. On the other hand, in Long Beach, the dry weather does not make my body sweat even I standing in front of the sunlight over half an hour, therefore I will miss the weather there. There are a plenty of famous landscapes around Long Beach city that we can visit, such as Disney Land, Santa Monica, Hountington Beach, Hollywood, Universal, Beverly Hills. Definitely a heaven as people discribed. In southern California, the people, the foods, and many places are multicultural. Lots of Asian, Mexican, and people from other country lives here, especially when I took Uber, I met the driver from different countries every time. I am very happy there are also some places like Chinatown, 99 Rench market which I visited for many times to buy some foods from my countries or talked to Chinese people if I need some help for my living, And most importantly the Mexican foods are my favorite, I cannot count how many Tacos, Burritos I ate during this year in USA.(255字)

(四)自我成長

照片說明:Armando Hart, a successful athlete.

【照片說明:Armando Hart, a successful athlete.】

As a person who study aboard for first time, it is really a challenge for me. I am not just studying and traveling for one year. To live there, I have to fit in the environment there, I have to fit in the culture which different from my own. I got friends, parents, family in my country to help me everything, but living in other country, the only person who can help me is myself. Eating, dressing, renting apartment, transportation, socializing, applying a bank account, understands the local laws, everything are unfamiliar, and I can only deal with all these things by myself. Language is one of the thing that I have improved a lot in this year, whether having a class or buying something outside, there is not chance to hear any mandarin anyway, this force me to listening to what the professor or seller said more carefully, and I wrote down those vocabularies which I am not familiar with, by then, my English listening and vocabulary words get improved. I also learned to be more aware of the danger. The American society still has many potential social problem that we cannot ignore. Thieves and robbers are everywhere, no matter where we traveling, we should always take care of our ID, money and wallet. Last but not least, I learned to respect and appreciate the people and culture from other country, you might get some discrimination or schism when contacting people from other countries, I believe it because we don't get to know each other, but after all, respect other people is the first step to decrease the schism. (270字)

(五)大三出國建議

I have some suggestion for the junior brothers and sisters who are preparing to study abroad. First thing first, before you choose the school, please thinking carefully, do not just thinking about where to travel, you are about to studying there for nearly one year, I believe this decision affect your career a lot, thinking carefully if it helps your career or what you expect to learn in the school you choose. Take myself as example, I choose Long Beach as my study abroad college because I only care about there are so many interesting place to visit in Los Angeles that I Ignore my study a little bit, therefore I did't bring a lot of credits back to Taiwan then. Second, be careful to deal with apartment renting(if you want to rent an apartment) and your bank account, and also knows the local laws and environment, better not neglect one of these things, or you might get yourselves in to a big trouble. Third, managing your spending and try to cook by yourself, the price in many things in United State is three times higher than Taiwan's. Especially the restaurant in America, they are really expensive, Therefore I suggest everyone to cook by yourself cause the foods in super market is cheaper, this is also good for you to learn some English words about foods. And last but not least, study hard for English!!It only brings advantages to you anyway, so do not be lazy on studying TOEFL or IELTS. Take care of your self wherever you go and have fun~(264字)

(六)其他

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照片說明:With my relatives in Houston.
【照片說明:With my relatives in Houston.】
照片說明:Skiing in Denver.
【照片說明:Skiing in Denver.】
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