Six Flags Great Adverture Trip on May 17

As one of the Honors College students of Polytechnic University, I have had the honor of earning a free trip to Six Flags today along with other students. I left my house early this morning to catch the tour bus scheduled to depart at 7:30AM, grabbed couple of red bean paste bun and a Japanese tea drink near my house for breakfast. After over one hour of boring ride on the bus, we arrived at Six Flags. Alongside with me were Jason (co-writer of this blogger), Madean and shy Maydur.

The group of four under my suggestion first took on a rode on Twister to warm up; Jason and Maydur were a bit shy of the rides so I wanted them to get used to the thrill before advance to wild ones. Dated from a year back was when I first rode this Twister thing, I felt a little rusted and my palm sweat a little during the ride, but it was fun to kick off the destined wild day. Arriving at a park early gave you an advantage of having less crowd to wait for popular rides, in fact, there was no waiting after we kissed goodbye to Twister and moved to the Great American Scream Machine; we boarded onto the cart; the ride lasted for about only 30 seconds in a terrifying speed and twisting on the edges of the track similar to the others we had later in the day. The one that twisted the worst I thought was Medusa, and my head hurt when it bumped the seat behind my head!

Four of us hung around the park all day and rode about 5 rides, both wild and mild ones, later in the afternoon we went to riverside and sat down to relax there before a Tiger Show at 3PM. The old lady at the gate of the show was a pain in the ass, me and Maydur got locked out because we arrived at 2:58PM, she pissed me off and perhaps it was the worst part of the trip. Forgive her now, maybe she was just doing her work in the right way! Anyhow, we had fun at the park maybe not Jason (ask him why yourself), he did however invite Madean and I to have a dinner at XO Cafe (one of my fav.) off Canal St. in Chinatown, thank him again here. Below is a little of my afterthoughts summarized today's adventure.

Honestly, it was my first time to be on wild rides and I was lying if I told anyone I wasn't scared at all at the beginning. Of course I was scared just like anyone else in the rides! But I came to the park today with a determination to challenge against my mental weakness; I was always afraid of riding roller coasters because my parents would worry bad things could happen and they thought I wasn’t capable of doing these things, now, realizing that I was able to face the challenge on rides and realized I actually do have the ability to do things I probably never aware of doing in my life made me feel great!

The rides to me were like obstacles in reality, because our mind tend to absorb opinions from others that scare us, we are often trapped in a maze filled with unrealistic comments and misleading directions. To find the path, no one is more reliable than us, simply judge yourself without experimenting anything is what a loser would do, and these people never succeed in their lives. I overcame the “wild rides” in my maze, have you done it? Follow your own torch that leads to the gate of bright future, come on take the rides!

Kingda Ka - The tallest 456 ft tall and fastest at a speed over 128 mph roller coaster in the world today! I missed it today due to mechanical problem and long line but promise will overcome you in the near future!

Before Stepping into Sophomore Year

Wow, it is quite amazing that time runs as fast as the speed of light! Now, I have finished my freshman year and gonna be a sophomore.
Before stepping into sophomore year, I want to share some of my freshman experience with you guys.
1. Don't believe you know anything and will do well when you take a course that is familiar to you. I know many guys who am quite good at math and they are quite sure that they will get A in that course. However, they never go to math classes and are quite lazy to do the homework. What happen to them at the end of the semester? None of them get A in that course. Therefore, we can not be overly self-confident all the time. We need to finish our jobs steps by steps.
2. Don't be afraid of the changes. At the end of the first semester, I decided to change my major from BMS to CBE. Before I changed my major, I was quite ambiguous on whether to change my major or not because I was quite afraid of the changes at the time. However, I changed at last (I don't want to expand to talk about what motivated me to transcend the fear of the change). After I changed my major, it turned out that the change brought me a lot of advantages, such as the eg course which helped me improve my public communications. Changes may not be a bad thing. Try to put your fear away and accept the changes.
3. Don't always focus on the study, go around to enjoy the other cultures of America, or even find a internship to get some experience for your social life.
4. Don't always consider you are the best in the world. Whatever honor awards you have gotten, you are still just a common people! Whatever deep divide lies besides you and others, you better use tolerance to patch the divide.

"My Freshman Year" by Mr Robert X.

I am so glad to invite one of my best friends, Mr Robert X. , to talk about his experience in freshman year of the college.

"I have been a college student for a year, and the freshman year becomes one of my histories now. Within the freshman year, I have learned and suffered a lot. However, it is true that “no pain no gain”. Now, let me describe the “ordeal” in this unforgettable year.

At the beginning of the first semester, I endured a lot of suffering. Before I entered college, a lot of people had told me that college life would be either horrible or excited. When I looked around those sitting next to me, all of them were not from my country. Thus, we didn’t have a common language at the very beginning. It made me feel uncomfortable. Nevertheless, I tried to make friends with them actively because I was a gentleman. Maybe it was fated. All people, who were sitting around me, were ladies. In this case, I had to talk with these females. When I managed to get along with them, I found how delighted to come across them in this class and how lucky I was. Many of them were so nice that they solaced me as I was vacant and vexed. Especially, when I was looking at my paper which my professor had made a lot of corrections, all of them came to me and encouraged me to make progress. They told me how to write the essay better, pointing out my disadvantages. With their help, I felt confident when I wrote an essay, and when I review my paper, I felt proud of myself because those mistakes I made become lese and less. My professor also congratulated to me. She said that how surprised that she saw me making such a great and rapid progress. Honestly speaking, I should be graceful to those ABC since they offered a lot of help to me. For example, when the second semester began in January, I needed to buy a lot of books. Looking at the price of the books in bookstore, I found out that they were quite expensive. However, I had no choices and had to buy them. At that time, those ABC came to me and gave me some books I need. With their sponsor, I saved $200 at least. I felt that I was so lucky that I made friends with these nice ladies.

I met them everyday and had lunch with them. We usually talked about something interesting in our class. Of course, we also had a lot of problems. When we couldn’t solve our problems alone, we always sat together and tried to find a way to solve our problems. As we know, different people have different advantages. We confronted those difficulties and beat them. After suffering from the vexation, we usually took a walk in the facility, the Brooklyn Bridge, or went to beach. How comfortable that we intake fresh air. We felt very relaxed and our brain was very clear. However, though there were so many nice girls around me, I believe college students should not fall in love so early. Love can damage our bright future. If we look for a girlfriend, we begin to go dating everyday and ignore our class. This kind of relationship can be poison. Day after day, you will burn your future. In this case, we better still focus on our homework instead of falling love with others.

In a word, college students should make true friends. Plus, falling in love can be a challenge because we must manage our time. If we did not manage our time well, it means that we disaster our future. Hence, college students don’t hesitant to fall in love when you meet your lover. In college, what you need to do is to just study hard and build a good relationship with other people."

(The article is just the writer's opinion, it is not related to the position of this blog.)

A Relief

Hooray! Finished all my finals today. All the semester's tensions are now vanished; now, just sit back and relax for a moment, we all deserve to have a break after exams, especially after putting much efforts into our classes. It is great to end the semester in the cozy weather mother-nature is offering in mid-spring! So, as part of the plan for the break, me and Jason were planning to drop-by at LESP on this Friday, to reunite with teachers and friends from our alma mater. Surely, it will be a nice little trip to go back to the place where we have started at before embarked on this journey. See you Friday!