Monday, October 25, 2010

blog#5

  i have always been troubled by different wires for my electronic devices , i got my cell phone , my laptop, the morden , the internet cable ,  the mouse , so many wires go though each other and sometimes tangle up , making my desk a really unpleasent place to work. the other day i went down to one of my friends' room chilling. however , the way he use clips truely impress me.
he uses this kind of ordinary clips 





then , he make them work like this




     this is super convenient and useful , you could arrange all those wires in a certain position so that they won't bounce everywhere and make the desk a mess. plus, this is easy to make , just clamp your clips (you could find them everywhere , i bet you will have it on you desk now) on the edge of table and everything will be set.
   i'm using it now and it's super neat.  from this experience i see there are a lot of unexpected functions i could dig out from ordinary things like a clip. don't be restricted by means normal person takes. there are lot of we could do taking advantage of of innovation.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Using The Toulmin Model

since i arrived America , things don't work out as i thought, which really smash my dreams up instead of fun. it's not fun and easy to get alone, instead, more kind of hollow , obscure and hard. those first days are really a catastrophe.
my claim: i can adapt myself to this different life.

grounds: in fact, this days, i made friends with senior students, they seems to have been the same situations where i have been. but look at them now , they have their own  positions in this society and their life is happy. which prove that people can shift their behave due to the changing circumstance. and finally get along with things , taking control of your life.
 
warrant : we have been to the same situation, we talked about that, and we have the same background. some of them even were worse than me at that time . so , they can do it , why can't i ?

backing: the ability of adapting new things. i have moved to another city when i had my high school . they have different local language. however, i got used to it and made many friends. made things all right.

qualification: there are obstructions of language, when i was in my hometown , things as taking initiative and expand my network is easy for me . i feel i can control myself , however, here i feel , when conversation triggered , it's like my mouth is not mine. something i tried to express turn to things different and conversation gets awkward. however, i see if how those senior chinese student cope with this, using simple practice. be confident to express and take practice. those are real examples occured in front of my eyes.so practice more i beilieve things will get better.