Journal 56: Big Apple

I believe that with a global network university, an enrolled student has more opportunities to interact with people of other cultures and also have a more diverse range of knowledge. With Global network university the students are cosmopolitan. A global network university such as NYU represents my ambitions of become a diverse person and also my dreams of traveling the world. The network allows students to travel the world to the school's separate campuses around the world. With each campus comes a different environment and culture to live in, and each one provides new opportunities. With each culture I would expect to learn something new, something life changing, and something that would change how I see the world. Also experiencing life outside of your comfort zone will broaden my knowledge of how to interact with others and how to reach my goals better. With each trip I would mature more and through that process become a diverse and well educated being.

Journal 55: Public Interest

I believe that is important to give back to our society, because the whole time getting raised up the society is a big element in raising us up. one who enter society as an adult after college or grad-school should always find a way to give back to the people who gave to him or her. It is a act of kindness and respect to the society as a whole. If everyone was selfish and cynical the world would be in worse situation that it is in already. No body would ever think about the well beings of others and what their society turns out to be. To contribute to the effort by giving back is a way of protecting the peace and serenity of a society.  In America all the citizens are supposed to contribute to society one way or another. You can make money to maintain the economy, take care of children to bring up the next generation, or invent or create new technology to advance the society. There are many ways of contributing back to the society and I believe that everyone should try to contribute no matter what. To contribute is to care and to care is to guaranty a better future, one without war or bankruptcy.

Journal 54: Literature and Death

Literature may be a way to overcome death but I do not believe it to the only way. You can be an actor and the movies you leave behind for future generations will be what over comes death. For artists their art work overcomes death. Literature is only one of many ways to overcome death. Even in the quote where the father is troubled after a show, wouldn't he be troubled after publishing a novel, and the book signings are over? Now a days theater plays are recorded and appreciate by those who watch it in years to come. Everything can allow a person's character or achievement overcome death. I myself find it more satisfactory to work on a piece of art but when I complete it I will a sense of accomplishment and pride. Knowing that my work in school would be shown to the freshman and sophomore of the years to come allows me to live on in the school even after I leave off to college. Maybe one day when I decide to come back and visit the students will recognize my name but not my face. That is what I think about over coming death. It no longer has to be just in literature that it can be achieved but in art, film, dance, or song.

Journal 53: Reasoning and Insight

I believe that in sight is of the most important far more important that rigor. Many things in the world are found through experimentation that follow no restrictions. Rigor restricts people from discovering new things. Even though it is important at time to avoid mistake. However that is only for things that are already complete and need no improvement. Insight allows people to express what they feel and what their perspective is. In the sciences and in art insight and innovation come hand in hand. If art was restricted there would be no Picasso, no Van Gogh, and no Salvador Dali. None of the great innovators in art would be viewed as great artist they would be viewed as trash artists who wouldn't follow rigor. Art principles are in no relation to any type of rigor, far away from that. Art is as liberal and insightful as you can get and only then are there great influential figures such as Andy Warhol. If I was ever asked to complete an art assignment under strict rules and regulations, I would produce something that is the exact opposite of the rules and go wild on it. Just to make a point that rigor doesn't create art.

Journal 52: Life of Service

Faith and learning can work together since they share similar principals. Even though I am not a religious person  I still have faith. I have faith in ideals that I believe in and faith in people who I love. To have faith in something one must put work into maintaining it. Learning to acquires one to put work into it. Having faith and a learning attitude can get you far in life. You have faith to stand firm with your ideals and have a learning attitude to learn from your mistakes and from others with more knowledge than you do. Learning new things and following your faith to help people around you help you become a better person and also make people like you. In the modern world popularity is very important, but not the kind of popularity of high school. Popularity in the adult world gains you acceptance to jobs and having a good reputation keeps you on the good list instead of the bad list. To do good for others out of your faith and service-learning can help you renew yourself and cleanse yourself of bad things. Learning to follow good faith will make a place for you in society where everyone adores you, the environment would be good for you.

Journal 51: Best Laid PLans

I have always romanticized things that I plan to do. I would dream about exactly how I am going to achieve my goals and believe that it would be the way that things will turn out. However it is hardly ever what I think it will be and never do I learn the lesson. I was assigned to produce a important video for my school. I planned every that I needed to film, when I needed to film it, and of whom I am to ask to participate. Finally the "shooting" week rolls along and the people who I asked to take part of the video slowly show up, only to tell me that they can't make it. My plans are ruined I had to squeeze in time where I had none just to cooperate with the people who are suppose to make time for me, not the other way around. I was really disappointed. What I thought was going to be a breeze with everything going to plan went all wrong and I had to end up  rushing the final product. good thing it turned out alright. I had to work after school on the video and editing took a lot more time that I thought it would have too. Even though I know that romanticizing is bad I still do it because only then would I have the motivation to do something, there is always a chance that things will go as planned.

Journal 50: My World

Asia, Shanghai, Taiwan, and bit and pieces of America, these are the places that make up my still developing world. I have lived in Asia all my life and only visited the United States once in my life for a school trip. Asian culture runs in my blood naturally and along with it is later injected american culture I've received from classmates and teachers in the schools I go to. The country I live in now is were my whole family is from and where I grew up, apart form Shanghai. The people here are as friendly as it gets with the exceptional few, who are arrogant and mean. It has a very stereo typical Asian society in schools and social areas. In schools everyone is super competitive and everyone is focused on their academics. Art students here are seen as children who can't do well in academics and have to choose the path of an artist or designer. However that is not true. Many art students still maintain a high GPA and hold high positions in school clubs and councils. My community is like a little piece of America trapped in a large piece of Asia. Only a selected few know the cultural mix and are like me.