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Blog #15 Expectations and Reality While Doing Group Study

 

 

 

We plan for so many things in life, but we hardly follow our plan. One of the situations when our plan does not work is while doing a group study. I have planned so many times to study with my friends in library or at someone's house. Most of my plans fail in this situation. Because all we do is fun. Before the plan, everyone looks very serious about it. We select a topic that we will discuss in the meeting. It turns out to be a totally different scenario. We end up gossiping, eating, listening to music etc. If we plan to meet in the library, then maybe we will be seen studying a little bit. But if we plan to study in someone's house, then nothing can stop us to have fun. We always have something to share with our friends! I am sure a lot of students face this situation as well. They expect to study hard with their friends in a group meeting. In reality, all they do is something else besides study. Not everyone face the same situation. Some people can actually study in a group and follow their plan. I see it as a part of studying actually! It is not bad to get some refreshment while studying. It really clears your mind and helps to focus on study. When the fun part takes most of the study time, then there will be a problem.

 

 



Blog #14 Expectations and Reality after a job interview



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An job interview is a face to face interaction between the interviewer and the candidate. Job interviewing never seems to get any easier, even you have extensive interview experiences and skills. You have to sell yourself to get their attention, answer some tricky questions from the company's manager during the process of interview. As a university full-time student, I always make ample preparations for the job interview, but it seems that many thing in our lives go by contrary. I remembered that one job interview I go through with, I was confident and answered all questions manager need. I thought I definitely can get the job. But after several weeks later, I did not get any phone call or email from the comany! I rechecked the email account and phone number I gave to the company just for a psychological comforting. I started to get nervous and for the job thing, but they told me they already hired other people. I could not believe that I failed, even I tried my best during the interview.
 Just like someone said, the bigger the expectation, the more bitter the disappointment.

 

 

 

Blog #13 Expectations and Reality After Getting a haircut

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We have all had that experience at a hairdresser where you notice you are losing more and more hair as scissors seem to be flying at warp speed around your head. After they finish and give you a mirror to have a look, it definitely not what you expect to get. The bad haircut is frustrating and scary;The first thing we would do after get a bad haircut is go crazy and start raging, then calm down and start raging again. Most of people try to find ways to move my hair around to make it look better. If that fails, then they try to look for ways to cut it a little bit to make it look better. Getting a bad haircut is a living nightmare for most of people, especially since we have had our hair done up for a special occasion! We afraid of someone look at us like nuts, and then we have to shave our hair at home so that we can go outside with friends, That's so awful!

 

 

Blog #12 Expectations and Reality while Travelling



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Who doesn't love to travel? For some people, travelling is a dream that comes true once a year for the annual holiday.  For us, we get the chance to travel twice a year luckily, summer and winter holiday . We have about two months break coming this December! Now coming to think of it, why do people travel? There are many reasons such as to take rest, challenge yourself, refresh the mind, enjoy new experiences, learn about other countries’ culture or just to have fun. Whatever your reasons for travelling, it is always interesting and exciting thing to do during the holidays.
 

I used to search for different beautiful places before I go to travel somewhere and I believe that many other people do it as well. We see the pictures of amazing places and decide to go there. However, we may actually find the place that we don't expect. Our expectation is that we will see an exactly same place as shown in the pictures that we have looked before. But in reality, the place is not that wonderful. There are several reasons that this difference of places between expectation and reality occurs. It could be weather, season, quality of camera or it could be really different. So my suggestion is, you should better ask for different people's opinion about how the place actually looks like in different time of the year and read the reviews of people who have been there already. In this way, you won't be disappointed if you find a different scenario. I hope you all are preparing for your exam. After that, why not plan for travelling? 


 

Blog #11 Expectations and Reality in a Competition/Sport

Being part of a competition is so much fun. There is always excitement about who is going to win and who will lose. I like to watch all the competitors face reaction and thrill before the competition starts. In every competition, you will find someone who is too over confident. They probably just like to show off or impress people. So the audience’s expectation gets higher as well. Some people might end up cheering for them as well. In reality, they turn out to be a complete loser because of their over confidence.

It is good to be confident when you are in a competition. It really increases the chance to actually win. But we should always remember that there is someone out there who could be better than us. That is why we should never be too confident. Just believe in your hard work.

Sometimes our expectation is so high that we forget there is a cruel competitive world out there waiting for us. Sometimes I have seen discrimination, unfair advantage to others and bullying during the competition. You just have to face the reality.



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Another kind of expectation could be cheering from our country in an international sports competition.  It could be for our own country or may be for any football or cricket team. I have seen Indian people getting crazy if their team cannot win in a match. They expect that their cricket team will win every match. But in reality, it is impossible to do so. Others let down our expectation and we also let down others expectation sometimes. 


 

Blog #10 Expectations and Reality about Looks



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More than 70% of women think they are ugly and 50% of women think they are fat. Women, who think they are fat but are actually of normal weight, have a lower self-confidence in life than those who are obese but believe they are of normal weight. I don’t know what they expect to be, but the truth is they are good looking anyway. They may think that their real weight is not the same as they expect it should be.

 

On the other hand, the male thinking is totally different in this case. Most men, I think, have a very high self esteem. I can only think of a couple men I met who have lack of confidence in themselves. Where as a woman, we tend to be always either self-conscious or have a low self esteem in some way, shape, or form. Sure, there are women who think that they are hot. But most of the time, they lack confidence somewhere.

I bet if you ask guys about how they rate themselves on a scale of 1 to 10, they would rate themselves closer to 10. Where if you ask women, they would probably rate themselves lower and then pick out what they don’t like about themselves.

Expectation is not reality. You might reach on it someday, somehow. But remember; be confident in whatever your reality is. It may never meet your expectation. Just be happy with your looks. Don’t complain about your lacking. Because your reality could be worse than what you are.