Most of us went to the meeting held by our professor this noon. We are going to organize an international postgraduate cognitive linguistics conference. It is a very good way to help us share and learn from different outstanding scholars and peers. Of course there will be a lot of tasks required to run this even smoothly. However, it will add some excitement to our regular studies at school.
I remember a similar activity in the past. It was the graduation banquet project during my studies in hotel management in Switzerland. The whole project took the entire term for planning, implementing, and so forth. Everyone got involved and boy were we busy back then! Basically we formed a banquet company and had a chairman and other managerial positions such as financial officer, kitchen manager, public relations, etc. We invited a keynote speaker giving a talk related to our theme, which was “Phantom of the Opera”. And guess what? We even sold tickets for the banquet! It was like really running a business. That event was one of the most incredible experiences I ever had in academic days. I got to learn how to cooperate with people from all sorts of culture, mindset, personality, and backgrounds. Team spirit was what counted as a fundamental factor of success. We didn’t win the first prize but good enough for standing ovation that night!
Sometimes, I wonder how those classmates are doing now. What have they become career-wise? As far as I’m concerned, not everyone got into hospitality industry. Like myself, I went into language and now on the track to cognitive linguistics and aim for cognition and neuroscience in the specific domain of linguistics, language acquisition, bilingualism and multilingualism…
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