Peter's Myth Blog

Time has come to judgment. This is dead week and I see no sign of survival for my traditional, in-class classes. Worries and intrusive thoughts are damaging my head. I'm at a very grim, perhaps the most abyss point of my life. Yes the classes are all upper-division and each one of those classes require LOTS of assignments. Exams and essays are tough and harshly graded. For someone like me who is an international student from a foreign country where nobody speaks English, I think different standards need to be applied. How in the sane world am I supposed to perform at the same level as American students who has spoken only English over 18 plus years. I started learning this language in 2016 (before that, I learned English like American high school students learn basic Spanish) and I think I'm still not ready to write "academic" papers with lots of research and citations. Nor am I ready to take exams that have essay questions. But what about the tuition though? In...

I've watched my dear friend Lance. He's an amazing guy that I've met in MIS class. I used to be a business major, but I didn't survive the major requirements. I was stressed and felt extremely bad for myself for not being able to make it to passing the class. My friend Lance who was sitting next to me taught me that I shouldn't be stressed over and business major isn't even the best major. I told him that my parents wanted me to major in business, but he also said my will  was even more important than my parents'. I told him that all my education is wholly financed by my parents. He said my will was more important because I wouldn't even do well if I did something I disliked. He was right. I disliked business and all the classes I was taking. So I decided to change my major to communication. Oh well. I found myself disliking it again. I think I generally dislike college courses because they are all rigid, except this class. This class has lots of a...

My friend Tony told me that he flunked his calculus exam. He said that he is feeling really bad because he now was in a situation that he had to change his major. He had been an electrical engineering major, but he couldn't sustain his major because he wasn't doing well in math classes. He told me that he likes engineering and making stuffs, but he never understood why the major required all the "unnecessary" conceptual math courses that he dreaded. Because he failed calculus classes twice, he told me that he had lost his scholarships and were asking his parents to pay his tuition.  When I heard Tony's tragic story about failing classes, I couldn't agree with him more. I've failed classes before and I myself changed my majors three times. So I taught and shared him about my survival strategy, which is to relax and not blaming oneself for the result or consequences.  We're told that we "choose" our lives and we're "responsi...

Now that I've set up my Twitter account yesterday, I thought it would be great to learn how to follow someone on Twitter. I found that it's relatively simple, yet can look confusing when it's completed. One thing I dislike about Twitter is its endless streaming of posts and it gives me headache to read all the messy posts that keep coming up. I've followed Elon Musk. I've always thought he was amazing. He's created life-changing companies like Telsa and Space X and he actually was the real-life model of Iron Man's Tony Stark. His companies, which include Telsa, Space X, and Boring Company, are impacting the world and future of humanity in major ways. Telsa has made fully electric and first fashionable (electric cars prior to Telsa were small and ugly in terms of design) electric cars that consumers love. I also followed Former OU President Boren. I respect President Boren so much. He has changed OU in major positive ways and OU is a more beautiful and ...

I found myself fascinated with reading Rapunzel story. It was an amazing story and truly creative. I liked how the long hair could create such creative story like Rapunzel. 1. Rapunzel : Rapunzel is a German fairy tale in the collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm. The Grimm Brothers' story is an adaptation of the fairy tale Rapunzel by Friedrich Schulz published in 1790. Its plot has been used and parodied in various media and its best known line ("Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair") is an idiom of popular culture. 2. Brothers Grimm : The two German brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century. They were among the first and best-known collectors of folk tales, and popularized traditional oral tale types such as "Cinderella" ("Aschenputtel"), "The Frog Prince" ("Der Froschkönig...

I've always been a big fan of Grimm brothers' fairy tale stories. Obviously, I think Grimm Brothers' fairy tale stories are the best of European fairy tale stories. I especially enjoyed the readings in LibriVox sections, so I decided to take notes of them. Grimm brothers' works are truly creative and fascinating. I've read several of them, but Rapunzel was a work of art in my opinion. I've only watched the Disney movie version of it, so it was fascinating to read the written version. The story is almost similar, yet slightly different in the way it was narrated. The story begins with a couple who was longing for a child. She believed it so dearly that she thought God would give her the child she wished for. It sounded very eerie and dreadful to me: "It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress who had great power and was dreaded by all the world." There must be something that wo...

I've searched through and read several articles in  Writers Write   website. One article that really caught my attention was " Why You Should Open Yourself Up To The Possibilities Of Story " This article caught my attention because I couldn't agree more on how important it is to be open to the endless horizons of possibilities of story when I'm writing stories. Otherwise, we might risk to write a story that isn't as creative as our initial intent. I've written lots of stories over the course of this semester, but I've always wanted to improve the quality of writing every time I write new stories. So I thought this useful article can help me a lot in improving the quality of my writing. Like the author said, it's a risk that leaves an author dry.  How To Be A Writer’, in the book, Self-Help, when we are open to new possibilities and creativity, the story becomes richer and fuller.  I like reading about the story of Rosa Parks and the bomb, and ...