15, My attitude to English 201.

   Tomorrow we all will write the Final exam. It means that our first English course is coming to the end. There are several point which I want to write about un this post.
   Firstly, blog assignment. It is rather unusual assignment for English course. The main purpose of this assignment was to develop our informal writing skills. The format of blog is very useful because student can really develop his or her writing skills only when student writes about what he or she wants and writes with real pleasure. In blogs we have such an opportunity because we had a list of themes, but, actually, we could write about everything. And it is a big advantage of this assignment.
   Secondly, Grammar logs. As for me, I had very big problems with English punctuation. Grammar log has really helped me to learn from my previous errors. I hope in future I will make fewer number of error. ( But I can't promise).
   Thirdly, Vocabulary log. It is also useful assignment, but I think it can be improved if student will learn, from 20 to 40 words per month, instead of 40 words per several days. Vocabulary tests don't demand much time, so I think teacher is able to conduct at least one test per month. And I think this words should be more useful, but it is a question to students, not to teacher because students decide what words to learn/
   Fourthly, Presentation. This is my BIG fault. I understand it. All school years I was avoiding such assignment because they were "elective", for an extra mark. So, as I understood from my sociology and English courses,  especially after wathching the video of my presentation, my way of speaking and delivering information is a disaster. I should work on it, and I hope I will have some improvements on this direction. The experience will teach me.
   And, finally, writing assignment. One thing that I understood from these assignments is that the correctly chosen theme on which you have many arguments and ideas is a half of the work. Because, on 3rd and 4th assignments I had rather interesting themes and arguments, consequently, I received good mark. The situation with 2nd and 5th assignments were opposite. Of course, O learned from this assignment about many useful techics and patterns of writing, but, in my opinion. the main point was the experience of correctly chosen theme of an essay.
   So, I am finishing my first English course with not the best marks, but that is my fault, and will try to receive higher mark.
   David, thnk you for the course!

14. Old friends

   I wonder when I am meeting my old friends, people with whom I was learning in my original city, and they asking me why I didn't write them from one or two weeks. I always start telling that I have a big amount assignments to write and a big amount of literature to read. Despite it is not always true, they starting inviting me to some meetings. A have been on a one. I found that people hadn't changed during these 3 month of life in capital. They are communicating with the same people who they were communicating during last several years. Maybe this happening because they refused to live in dormitories and decided to rent flats. Futhermore, this happening because they are doing nothing in their universities. Not completely nothing, but they really dislike subjects which they are learning and that is why they don't have many incentives to study them. One thing that I really can't understand is their travelling to original city almost every weekend. I could understand if these travellings were 1 or 2 times per month, as I do, but they travelling 3 or 4 times month. They say that they are missing their relatives, but actually they haven't any businesses to do in university.
   So, many my friends living their previous life. Maybe this is happening because they all arrived to Moscow just to receive a diploma, and not to receive real knowledge. Actually, they agree with his idea. Today most students are studying for the diploma, and many pay money for exams. It is sad but it is our reality.
   So, watching this disaster un Russian educational system, I am really happy to study at our bachelor programm, where you can chouse what to learn and where you know the purpose of your studying.

13. Critique on Argumentive essay.

    Honestly, I am very dissatisfied when I am looking at my draft #1. It is a terrible coincidence that both the first and the second drafts of our main essay we should write at night after deadlines of our calculus homework. Despite David was telling us many times that we should think about our essays and write it before the last day before class, we are all just humans and we can procrastinate almost everything. ( If your essay was complete yesterday, I think you are very strange.
    So, I written my essay in 4 hours of night, and, consequently, it wasn't very good. I started understanding it when I was writing and printing it, but the complete understanding came to my mind when I started reading classmates' essays. Of course, they were not perfect, but they were much better then my one. I wan't to change it's structure and make the paragraphs more logical. I have rather nice argiments and I will try to make make citations as right as possible because it is the main part of our assignment and it tas a big value in mark for this assignment. I am very grateful to my classmates' who pointed me at my mistakes.
    So, now I can say that my essay is rather bad. Of cource, it is not very good to start writing my essay now, but "better late than never". I think good written essay worth sleepless night.

12. I am Jack's developing economy.

 The idea of "I am Jack's" was taken from the movie "Fight club"(1999). I suppose you know it, but I am afraid of being accused of using plagiarism.

  I am Jack's developing economy. I can produce some things and happiness. I need capital and technology to do it. I want to produce more and more, so I collect capital. I want to produce different things, so I study more and more science. I need other economies to exchange happiness and make my amount of happiness bigger.
  I need capital to be happier but every new unit of capital brings me fewer and fewer amount of happyness. Some my economies-friend consume capital more and more so the new capital units don't receive any happyness. But there is big world's tendency to collect big amounts of capital so thet can't stop collecting it and that fact brings big problems to them.
  I can consume and produce. There are different economies around me. Some of them are consuming a lot, others - produce a lot. I suppose these two policies are wrong. Overconsuming leads to big debts which cannot be paid to these economies. Overproducing leads to exhaustion of economies resourses, declining of economies stocks and ecomomy's power. So every economy should produce and consume equal quantities.
  From the birth to the death an economy is trying to develop itself and it may live forever it wouldn't go to the edge points of existing.

 I can say that the concept of comparison a man and an economy and the people society and world trade organizations was more interesting at the moment of it's creating. But it hasn't become so interesting in reality. It's sad!