Week1: A brief self-introduction（RMST202）

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Hello everyone! My name is Li Xiang, a freshman in the arts department, planning to major in economics and minor in psychology. But to be honest, I prefer art and the prosperous emotional relationship between people. In gradually studying economics, I found that this subject slowly made me feel bored and cold, so excluding the reality factor, I will May change my professional plan in the future.


Before I took the first class, I just had an elementary understanding of this course. I chose this course just because it just met the professional needs and the course introduction looked good. Still, I didn't expect the course format to read and blog constantly. It's a novel experience for me, and I will do my best to run my first blog account. After watching the first lecture video, I briefly understood the course objectives and basic course introduction. I gained the first concept worth thinking about in the course: "Romance Studies belongs nowhere."


I like reading books on psychology or philosophy. And when I searched for the books needed for the course and read the introductions of these books, I found that some readers do have some difficulty in reading, and the author's writing style is also something I have never come into contact with (maybe Yes, but I didn't know how to classify it at the time), which did present some challenges. But to my surprise, these books are full of the author's emotional outpouring and understanding of the world, which made me realize that reading can also improve my philosophical performance.


I am looking forward to learning more about this writing technique in this course to resonate with the author's emotions more. I also look forward to reading the blogs published by my classmates to get different senses and inspirations for reading the same book.

地点: Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4加拿大

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  1. Jon Beasley-Murray2022年1月29日 19:18

    Ha! Yes, boo to economics! (Joking but also not joking... :) )

    Jon

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