Feeling on MO-400

Summer has begun! It's time to pursue our goals! It took me around 12 hours separated over 3 days to complete the practice and pass Outlook 2019. Let me share my thought regarding MO-400.

I did LabSim and GMetrix practice provided by our professor. However, I found that the LabSim version was so outdated, with approximately 70% of the user interface changed. After completing LabSim, I proceeded to GMetrix and realized that I didn't even know how to answer the first few questions... If I were given one more chance to prepare for MO-400, I would only do the three GMetrix practice twice.

I think hitting MO-400 is a good start in summer. What you need is a good habit to keep learning without instruction and deadline. Then, We can easily get one more certificate for free which originally costs around $100.

The Meaning of Education

What is the meaning of education? I would say that is to acquire knowledge to make money, but there is not the case. The education is educating us to be someone's slave. Through completing assignments and attending classes daily, an outstanding student mirrors the qualities desired in a good employee. However, what we need is money but not being as slaves. 

Furthermore, At least 50% of the stuffs in school are useless for non-major students like chemistry, history and etc... Some may say that the knowledge can be indirectly applied to our life and we can make use of the knowledge to learn other stuffs. OK, why can't school just teach us investment? Those can also be indirectly and directly applied our life, and we can also make use of the knowledge to learn other stuffs.

Today we are lucky to attend IS101 which the skills we learn from can be directly applied to our work but not only indirectly make use of it, like learning how to merge mails, making good slideshows and using Microsoft suite. And the most important thing is that we meet an excellent professor and gain his attitude from him.

Summer Plans

I see Elijah and Linette are going to have a full schedule in summer. Kimberly will catch up on her schoolwork, and Garden-Prosper keeps maintaining her garden. It's also time to write down my plans.

As a phone addict, I always spend my morning on my phone. This summer, I have set a big goal for myself: to maintain a habit of not scrolling through my phone in bed and to wake up before 8 am. In June and July, I will be taking three summer courses while also earning money for my trip. In August, I will fly back to Hong Kong, meet the special girl who is my high school belle, and go on a driving trip in China with my friends. I hope she will join my trip as well.

My summer plans:

• study half of the calculus II
• learn programming
• 3 summer courses
• part-time work
• driving trip
• camping
• tell her I love her

My speaking contest result

Speed Run MO-201

It was frustrating to mindfully watch all the videos but still not know how to do the applied laboratory. Then I realized one thing: I can't learn passively. In the last two big chapters, instead of watching tutorials, I opened the laboratory and clicked on "show me" and "do this later" to learn the features and then practice them instantly. I did the remaining 10 small chapters in 2 days.

Learning something new and complicated is really tough for me. But you know, if you are learning something comfortably, you are probably wasting your time because you are not learning but repeating like at the bottom part of Bloom's Taxonomy.

After MO-201, I gained a little more persistent mentality and an active learning strategy. In the future, when I learn programming, I will dirty my hands with codes and watch tutorials at the same time rather than watching tutorials for an hour first.

Seeking for a lifestyle that's suitable for me

Elon Musk works 100 hours a week. The motivational video told me: "If I wanna succeed, I gotta work harder." Compared to him, I was very lazy in the first half of the semester. So, after the semester break, I started focusing on studies 6 days a week and resting on Sunday. The first three weeks were pretty good, but the following week, I got totally exhausted mentally and almost did nothings except for mandatory assignments. The same incident happened again last week.

I've realized that my mental health can't be healed just by resting on Sundays. My life might seem fulfilling for first few weeks, but then I would get depressed for about a week. Now, a new strategy comes to my mind —stopping all the things in my hands and watching Netflix with English subtitles every day after 10 pm as a form of daily rest—

A Outstanding Visual Aid for My COM101

I have never seen any person using a 3D model on their PowerPoints. I think that the reason is very likely that they don't even know about this function existed. I didn't know it either before finishing the 6.9.4 3D Models. Putting a 3D model instead of a picture on a slide, you must surprise your classmates. They wouldn't be able to imagine that your picture could turn around and jump until you show it off. If you put a surprising 3D model in your sides while keeping it clean and simple, you will very possible be the eye-catching and outstanding one. Their thoughts must be like: this is incredible!

My slideshow will be published on this Friday on speaking contest. I am gonna do my best and boost my grade to an A in COM101 with my practiced speaking.