User:Chengfuhsieh

=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

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 * Research Component

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 * week 1

Although it's already passed,,But I did some research about the Visa
 * week 2

Find out where can I get the Visa, how long does it takes, fill up all the forms
 * week 3

After know will get the Visa for sure, book the cheap ticket to Europe
 * week 4

Do research about the Europe, Where I must go, and decide which country I will stay for the most of time
 * week 5

After decide few countries I will stay, find out a place to live
 * week 6

contact the place I am going to live, make sure they have place. and book it
 * week 7

A week for any of week mission delay
 * week 8

Get ready for the presentation

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
Since last Monday morning was raining, I went to the Olympic Sculpture Park last Wednesday. I really could not see a lot of sculpture there when I first got there; however, I started to see more and more very strange sculpture while I walking around in the park. The whole park is in really good design. But almost all the sculpture I cannot really know how to appreciate them. I had no clued what are they and what they are trying to present. Anyway, while I walking in the park with my friend in graphic design, I saw a plastic chair, cardboard box, and a concrete bench. I said to my friend: do not tell me these are “art”, or it would be really insulting me to spend time on these. Later, when I walked closer to these chairs and box I could not believe what I see. I see a mental broad with explanation which means these are really art pieces. I was like, “you gonna be kidding and did not took closed look of the explanation because I think this is exactly what I need for the Steven’s  assignment, these art pieces got to be a joke.” Last Friday, I meet one of the classmates and talked about which one I choose. I told her that I found one that was really sucks, and has to be perfect for the assignment. However, I totally change my thought after she told me about the sculpture. Those sculpture are not made from what I look like, they are actually made from copper which is so cool because they look just like plastic, paper and concrete to me. I do a little more research about the artist, Roy McMakin. Now I know what the artist is doing which I thought is super cool! Those art pieces are keeping with his sense of visual and physical humor, where objects are often not what they look seem to be. Chengfuhsieh

Midterm Assignment 2: Manipulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5ZHqBAVII&feature=related

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

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 * Research (20%)

Research about the Schengen Visa, and some city in Germany,


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

Should be 100% mission accomplished, I got my SCHENGEN VISA, FLIGHT TICKET, AND PLACE TO LIVE


 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1)Booking flight ticket went very well, just type in the destination and pay...
 * 2)the Visa part should be the hardest part in this project although still not that hard.

I got reject few times for lost some paper, and figure it out pretty fast, I got my visa in week 5 I think.
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Self-Assessment
=Analytical Writing=

Personal Essay
Final version of personal essay

A good and equal education environment should be deserved by every child in the United States, but it seems the education system is just design for “rich guy” in the United States. Having a bachelor degree is not rare to see anymore, it seems almost every student has to go to the college now. However, the rising education cost is becoming a serious problem in the United States. Student housing, food, and school supply has always being a problem for the college student, who is not coming from a rich family. Not only in the college, but also elementary school, middle school and high school students who come from a rich family gain a better education quality but students from a poor family are not.

According to Thomas G. Mortenson, “Roughly one in two students from families making more than $90,000 obtain a bachelor's degree by age 24 compared with one in 17 students from families making less than $35,000 a year(Rising)." With numbers like these it is impossible to deny that the schooling system is unbalanced.  In addition, "Cost factors prevent 48 percent of all college-qualified, low-income high-school graduates from attending a four-year college and 22 percent from pursuing any college at all. At the rate we are going, by the end of the decade, more than two million college-qualified students will miss out on the opportunity to go to college." “No doubt low-income students are less prepared academically than higher-income students: They are more likely to come from educationally disadvantaged homes, to attend lousy schools, and to have SAT scores that lag 200 points behind those of higher-income students." With these statistics, it is no doubt that the school system is extremely unbalance.

But why are these happen? It depends on if you are living in a high level region or not. The rich families usually live in higher wealthy region; in contrast, the poor family could not afford to live in expensive house where the area is usually less fund. Therefore, low-income children have to go to elementary school, middle school and high school with fewer funds, lacking of teacher and school supply. As a result, “Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, only 34 percent of low-income eighth graders go on to graduate from high school qualified for college."

When this 34 percent of low-income student get into the college, there are more problems waiting for them such as, housing, food, and school supplies. For the student housing, both school dorm or outside of school are expensive. School dorm usually cost less but with restrictions and usually comes with meal plan which is often not “good food.” However, for living outside of campus, it costs around $1000 dollars per month for living in a one bed room apartment. If live in a new or higher quality apartment, then it is about $1000 dollars for a studio or $2000 for two bedrooms apartment. Second, for the student food, according to the group two, it said “A well-managed monthly food budget can be around $250-$300.” However, for my roommate and I, we usually cost 250 for two people per month with very well managed which I think could be a way to saving money for the poor student like us. We always check and compare the price tag every time we choose the food. Third, the school supply is always a huge burden for poor student, my sister’s text book cost about $150 per book in average. For me, the art supply cost about $800 for the kit which I have not used any of the supply in the kit so far. Although they are lot of financial aid and scholar ship out there to apply, but they are usually limited. Most students could have a loan for tuition from bank for zero interest and do not need to pay back until they graduate for six months. And scholar ship usually needs an extremely high GPA to keep in the list.

Here are some ways to kind of solve these problems. First, keep GPA as high as possible to apply the scholar ship. Second, find 4 to 5 friends to live together in a single house can usually reduce lots of money in housing cost (for an average 350~450 per person). Third, compare the price of food like my roommate and I and do not buy too many fruits because they are usually expensive than meat. Moreover, do not buy the kit from the school but just ask for the list of the supplies and buy the text book online from Amazon or half.com. Finally, maybe the government of the United States should spend more tax income on the education instead of spend whole lots of money on killing people in the Middle East. According to my cousin who is in the U.S. army and came back for the Thanksgiving from Afghanistan, “An average of cost in each soldier in Afghanistan, which is the total cost of war over there to divide of total number of soldier in Afghanistan, is 1,000,000 U.S. dollars per year.” Which I think could be really helpful of rising cost of education if the government of the United States would spend more of tax income in education. Chengfuhsieh

Self Assessment
English is always not what I am good at, I have to be honest that I really could not help a lot in my group, but I still did what I can do before week 8, which is the week we changing our goal of the research paper a lot.

for this class, although I know that my English writing skill is not improved a lot. I think I got something else that I need to be a designer. I have taken two class with professor Arntson this quarter, and I think I kind of got what you what to tell us. I gain a lot of different thought during the quarter which are very good to me, give me different thought to seeing things. I would give this class full point to be in an art school.