A New Start

Hello! My name is Minghua Yu and I’m preferred to be called as Candi. Before, I looked up a lot of other people’s blogs, but never think about creating my own one! I think this is a new start and I am definitely looking forward to learning more skills!

I’m a second year student with a Bachelor of Science in Food and nutrition major. During the past, I thought as a student, I only need to attend all the lectures, read textbooks, work hard throughout terms and get high grades so that I would be success. However, after taking ALES 204, I realized how wrong I was and how important the role of communication is in all fields of study, not only in food and nutrition! I started to use Twitter and now blogs, feels like the whole world is getting smaller and going faster than before. As an International Student, I am weak at language skills comparing to local students. I was nervous and shy, afraid that other people will tease me if I said something wrong, so that’s why I don’t like to do presentations.

Because I’m only a second year student so that I’m not quite sure about my future careers yet, but whatever I will do is connected with communications. Assume that I will be a food scientist so that I will investigate the chemical, physical and sensory nature of food, processing, preserving, packaging etc, it is important to keep in touch with other people doing the same job as me, or even economists and managers. I sometimes discuss the future possible careers with my friend Manjiang and I found that was really meaningful. It is useless if I have new ideas but don’t communicate with others.

It is only a beginning like the picture a new day I posted below. Really hope that I will have improvements in the field of communication. Keep fighting and never give up! Thanks for listening.