Homework on 02/05/2008

EAV Chapter 4

4b.
(1) participation, (2) categorized, (3) participate, (4) random, (5) tradition, (6) voluntary,
(7) injuries, (8) acquire, (9) regional, (10) normally, (11) energy.

6a.
(1) import, (2) porter, (3) port, (4) report, (5) deportation, (6) transportation,
(7) portable, (8) portfolio, (9) export, (10) reporter.

7b. my extracurricular activities in college

It was the story long time ago; however, the experience of extracurricular activities in college is imprinted in my memory forever. I started to feel a little bit loneliness after I spent one and half semesters in the first year of college. One day, I saw the hiring post of the campus café, which was managed by students under the supervision of university. I decided to do something different than studying at that time and went to apply for the position of waiter. I was recruited and started the par-time job of working behind the bar once or twice a week. In the café, I had the chance to know the students beyond my own major, such as the students from business school, law school, etc. In the meantime, my devotedness to the part-time job was acknowledged by those managers, who themselves were students; hence, I was promoted to be one of the shift managers after one and half semesters and later was appointed to the position just behind the general manger. At the beginning of my third year in college, I was picked up by the university and joined the unit that supervised all of those student-organized small businesses, such as café, supermarket, etc. I spent one year to work with these different types of organizations, and decided to quit at the beginning of the forth year.
The two-and-half-year experience participating in these student-organized businesses dramatically changed my life from the outside. In one sentence, I was wearing sneakers at the beginning and was wearing leather shoes at the end. However, my inside didn't change a lot actually. I was still a very naive student after I quit from the part-time job at the end.
At the same time, my focus was shifted from study as well and my grade was not as good as the first year. I was not sure this bad influence of the grade was related with the part-time job because that job didn't take a lot of time indeed.