Group 3

Cordilia Chan, Eunice Chan, Helen Chui, Hebe Lai, Teresa Lai

7^th August 2014

We had lessons about intuitive problem solving and imagining the future, critiquing the present. In the lesson of intuitive problem solving, we had a lot of interactive activities and illusion experiments, which allow us to understand deeper by using ourselves as ‘lab rats’.  We watched inspiring video clips of a successful swimmer Philip Phelps and an aspiring dancer Martha Graham, instead of using traditional training methods, they tried in their styles and obtained brilliant results. What we have learnt is one thing to have in mind is: think far out of the box. Be outrageous. Be illogical. Be nonsensical. These are all methods that we have never thought of using. The class brought out the idea of “practice makes perfect’. We understand that there is no free lunch and effort must be paid in exchange for success. In the afternoon, we had a class on western history. To our dismay, this isn't any normal history lesson that we can easily come across. The professor reassured us the purpose of studying past events which is to learn from errors while imitating the hard work of our past generations. We ended the day with an assignment of painting places we would like to visit in both the Stanford campus and in any parts of the world. In a nutshell, we had a wonderful day of acquiring skills of different fields and it was definitely time well spent.