Adapt To Loneliness

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A Person Needs To Be Like A Team

Time flies, it’s almost time to look back upon the old days and look at my footprints on the way to grow as a writer and as a person. Thanks to this ENG1430 writing course, I finished my strongest and relatively weak essay; I grasped a most basic key as a writer with the help of my professor and classmates, and what’s more important is that I learned to enjoy loneliness in this freshman year.

As far as I am concerned, the summary and response essay is my strongest one. In my observation journal on March 8, I regard it as “my old friend, my treasure, as it once became a part of my daily life”. Looking back at the whole process of writing it, long but meaningful, I struggled from feeling confused to clear. Due to my misunderstanding of the micro fiction’s main idea and my carelessness for not doing
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I felt ashamed for the first time eating at the dining hall alone. With a red face, I couldn’t even raise my head. It seemed that everybody was looking at me and asked why she was eating alone. I know how silly such thought is and how sensitive I once to be, but now I’d say I have overcome it. Library, dormitory, dining hall and playground, they are four main points of my daily life. Sometimes, I think my life is like the top of a mountain where the air is so thin that people who gets close to me may have a high altitude reaction, but I enjoy it! I enjoy every moment of solitude. I like communicating with myself, exchanging the feelings after finishing reading a book or an article. I’ve picked up the habit of making plans and managing myself to do tasks in order. I can cheer myself up by telling a joke as soon as I find myself upset. A person needs to be like a team. After all, no one can support us at any time except

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