Observation mission progress report

Dr. Hass's biology class, my second option of observation task, has already taken me in. Now we are talking about ANGEL group and class content by emails.

Additional Post for Reading: Three books I would like

Book No.1  My Nama is Red,  by Ferit Orhan Pamuk, winner of 2006 Nobel Prize in literature.
I have already read the Chinese version yet. I think it's good for me to have a try.


Book No.2  The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Alaska Wilderness， by John Haines, my favorite America poet, writer. I got a bilingual version when I was a high school boy but now I would like renew my memory.


Book No.3 The Vanished Man，by Jeffery Deaver. No one can replace, Jeffery is my absolute idol! Since I became a great fan of detective novel, I has collected almost his novels in Chinese.

PSU Scavenger Hunt Step 2

Name of a librarian who specializes in your field of study	Helen Smith Associate Librarian Title: Agricultural Sciences Librarian
Title of the article you found	Aroma characterisation and UV elicitation of purple basil from different plant tissue cultures.
Author	A. Bertoil, M. Lucchesini,et al.
Journal name	Food Chemistry
Year published	2013
Database you used to find the article	Biological Abstracts Data Base form PSU online-library

 

Carbon Footprint

Your footprint

2.57planets

We would need 2.57 planets if everyone lived your lifestyle We only have one.

 

PSU Scavenger Hunt! For 2013 Fall!

 

 

 

	Class #1	Class #2	Class #3
Class name and number	PLBIO 516	BIOL 110	PPATH 405
Days it meets (MTWRF)	M	M W F	M W
Time it meets	1:30 PM - 6:00PM	2:30 PM - 3:20 PM	2:30PM - 3:20PM 2:30 PM- 4:30PM
Location	203 Life Sciences Bldg.	010 Sparks Bldg
Professor’s name	Chopra, Surinder	Hass, Carla Ann	Anderson, Charles
Professor’s email	sic3@psu.edu	cah19@psu.edu	cta3@psu.edu
Reason you’re interested in observing it	Need to know some about modern techniques and concepts in Plant Molecular Biology.	It's a prerequisite course for some advanced courses. I wonder if there has some distinctions from what I had been tought.	Plant disease survey, and control strategies. THat's one of my academical interests.

Trip at NYC in Agu

Time Square 01

 Time Square 02

 Time Square 03

 NY Subway: Little boy was playing violin

The point is "NYPD"

International Café

1. How did you feel about your discussion experience?  What did you enjoy and what was difficult?

 

I would like to say that this discussion experience is  so excellent! But the content is very challengng for me, because each article of them is difficult to read. As our first guide said, "here even has some GRE vocabularyies." However, most of us participated this activity preparedly, and I am so glad to share the other's opinion at that moment. The most difficult part must be to make agreement for each standard.

 

 2. Which letter from #5 on page 1 of the worksheet was hardest to decide in your group? Why do you think it was the hardest?

 

       a: "most possible for me to do in the same situation" -> "least possible"

       b: "most likely to be remembered in the future" --> "least likely"

       c: "most affected/changed by their experience" --> "least affected"

       d: "most courageous" --> "least courageous"
 

 It's should be (d), due to this option more likely to be personal preference rather than judgement that was base on the common sense.

 

3. Was it easy or difficult to come to agreements with your groups?  What made it easy and what made it challenging?

 It is not such easy that we just say "Okay‘ to the others. Everyone need express his or her view clearly and appropriately. To convince other group members is the most challenging part for us, so that we recognize that people do have different feelings for the same story.

 

4. Were you happy with your group’s definition of courage?  What would you like to change, if anything?

Yes, I am so happy we got so many good definitions of courage. Especially for the definition: "Dare to take risk not just for you but someone else"  That's my favotite.

 

So Sad !

I want my laptop back !
I want my laptop back !
I want my laptop back !

I want my laptop back !
I want my laptop back !
I want my laptop back !

1. Do you think humans will need to move to another planet?  Why or why not?

    Of course, we do have so many problems about our old homeland: the earth. But it doesn't mean that we have to seeking other planet to replace. We still have time for rescuing the earth before it become too late to be heal.

 2. If it does happen that some humans move to another planet, would you volunteer to go?  Why or why not?

     Definitely not. Like baby always feels safe and comfortable with his or her cradle, I prefer to live in our mother planet. After Columbia tragedy, I have been more negative on space issues. I think human beings have prepared for star tour yet. Since we have so many problems and every tiny one of them could kill us so easily, I believe that there has a quite long way to space travelling.


 3.  Read this article about people who have signed up to move to Mars: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/09/tech/innovation/mars-one-applications/index.html  What is your reaction to this story?

      In my opinion, no offense, it's totally insane and unreasonable! This program have a quite implicative name called "The Mars One", which means you would never come back to the earth with this "single ticket". It's also generally accepted by people, due to so many executable  imagines, to move another planet is a fake story more than a anticipated real future.  I will keep doing everything to save my earth instead of  seeking something to replace.


 4. What do you think Ray Bradbury wanted the readers of "All Summer in a Day" to understand?  What did you think after reading this story?

     Well, it's should be a wonderful science fiction aim to describe the situation about Venus's life of people, actually, children as far as I know.  But, when I was reading, I felt the sadness and hopelessness from the deep inside. All the things indicate that author was missing earth so much and the only thing can resolve is to meet a summer sunny day after seven-year waiting! Unbelievable, but it might be the future of human beings. If it is our future, I want to do something to avoid it.
    

Instroduction of Shawn Deng

Hi, everyone!

    I am Shawn Deng(xiaoxiang), the Chinese lad in class. So happy to get this blog for starting my on-line life at Penn State with you guys! Even I have a blog when I was in my country, the English blog is totally new one for me.
    When I was level-3 student at IECP, Sultan said it's so weird for a  name containing double "X", therefore, I prefer to use my English name "Shawn". It's also have the similar pronunciation.
    I came to U.S. for my advanced academic life after got my Master degree of Breeding from GuangXi Agriculture College. But, it definitely isn't my whole story. I love living in PennState because I get to meet so many excellent people from over the world. Just like Ruth ? Haha~:)
    OK, that's it. By the way, I really like this Blog Work" and I am going to "overuse" in coming days! See you!