Yoonsuk Jung, Blog assignment #10

Interview research was a pretty difficult task for me. During the interview, the most difficult thing was to make my interviewees understand what I was asking about. I often got ambiguous answers from interviewees when I asked the same questions because it was really hard for me to get them to the points of the questions that I was asking. What is more, this experience of interviewing people reminded me of my influent English skills again. When I spoke to a person, when I needed to change the mood to something exciting, and when I jot down notes, I realized that my English skills are poor and I recognize the fact that I need to practice more English. Sadly, I can count how many times I asked the same questions to my interviewees to write down what they were saying! Anyway, I would to say all my interviewees thank you so much!!

Blog #10 Hayoung Choi

This was my first time writing research paper. I was afraid of writing research paper. I thought it would be hard to write than academic essay. At the first time I choose topic that why there is no football field in our campus. But it was too narrow to write a research paper. So I changed my topic to “what are positive and negative effects when we play sports?” During the interview, I was scared to asked stranger to help with my project. My first interviewee was Jerry Lee. I choose him to ask for help because he looks Asian. I feel comfortable to ask who looks Asian because I am Asian. I interviewed him in front of Hinman discovery center. He answered my question very kindly. He was baseball player since he was in a elementary school. So it was easy to ask about playing sports. Next, I interviewed one class mare and 3 friends and one neighbor. It was easy to ask my friends to help do my interview. I really enjoyed to interview about how other people think about playing sports. Especially Junsuk(Andrew) Kim gave unexpected answers that makes me funny.

Blog #10 Grace Kim

First of all, I really enjoyed this research paper. It was a great experience. I did not wanted to pick a topic that is not interesting. "Marriage" was my topic and I wanted to find out how college student think about marriage these days. I tried to interview as many people as possible but time comsuming was the problem. Library was the best place to interview people but they were all there to study. So it was a little bit hard for me to interview them longer than I wanted. However, my interviewees were very kind enough to answer all of my questions and gave me lots of comments. Also, I tried not to ask questions that are too personal. After this research paper, I found out lots of interesting ideas from college students and I was really glad to share my topic in the class. If I get chance to do another research paper, I'd like to interview more people so that I can see the real pattern and get more information.

Jacob Lee #10

The interview I did was quite fun and enjoying. I think it was because it was mostly done by the people I knew. I had fun talking with the people who were close to me and I got to know them better. Also the topic to me was interesting, so I had fun talking about how they used the internet. Moreover it made me obtain some interesting facts about the people. When we started to talk about the interview they did not have much interest, but soon after the question about what is the most favorable thing, they started talking with enthusiasm. For example, a friend of mine started to talk about facebook, a social site for friends to talk about and have fun. However, once she started we didn’t stop, even when we when way off topic I could not stop talking about it until I had class. Another long talk was that when a friend I knew like to watch Korea dramas. She fist talked about all these dramas that she knew and than the ones that were really famous Drama she could talk about it for hours, but I stopped it before she was starting to bust. Even though it was a great fun to do the interviews, because I cramped it up it was a bit time consuming to do this. I don’t have regrets of doing it but next time I should consider doing it before the due date is close.

Javier Rodríguez "Assignment # 10"

It was an amazing experience to have been in contact with students at Binghamton University and exchange experiences about my research topic. By doing this research I get in contact with people and talked about their opinion about the uses of information communication technologies. It was very helpful for me to have been in contact with other students. This last assignment allowed me to get in contact with a different situation of interviews. It is very helpful to know how to build questions to find information for get a deeper understanding about a topic. I have to say that every thing that we did about interviews it was awesome. Furthermore, this assignment allowed me to establish communication with other people around campus and get their opinion about issues that are currently affecting our society. It is very important to read information about a specific topic but at the same time, having contact with others and interact with them and having their opinions will help you to have a better picture about the issues. As a result, I did enjoy to have been doing this. At the same time, I learned a lot about information communication technologies and also to evaluate what people in my surroundings thinks about that and incorporate their opinions to my own research.

Vanessa Cruz Inoa Blog #10

The interview experience is really different for me because is the first experiences and opportunity on interview peoples in English. In the beginning feel nervous because write the answers of the people and understand the meaning of the words. But them of the first interview all others are really good. Enjoy the different personal experience and learn about others cultures. The different perception and reasons to people move to the United States. How culture change in the people mentality in a new places because the interaction with others learn more about different traditional and cultural concepts. The research surprising is the people talking more them two different language and friends quantity of different countries. Definitely has culture a lot influences in the development of the people in a new places. The new knowledge experiences is the consequences of integration, nteraction between peoples and places. I like the process to collect data, the interviews and the integration of all elements to preparer the research paper.

Blog Assignment #10 (Dahyun Choi)

Well, it was not the first time to do interviewing for me but it was the first time to write a reserch paper with the data which I collected. Since I inteviewed my friends and classmates, it was quite comfortable and I liked it.
At the first time, I decided to write a research paper about the problems of internet. However, when I asked the first interviewee, I found that my topic was too broad. There were too many kinds of problems of the internet and my topic was not really specific. So the interviewee did not really know what he had to talk about. When I asked him, he told me "Is it about problem of personal issues? or is it about difficulties of using the internet? like conncetion or speed?" So I decided to make my main question more detailed.
I enjoyed the interview since there were some answers what I did not expected. Moreover, it was nice to share experiences and ideas each other. The most surprising one was there was one interviee who answered different and opposite opinion compared to the rest of interviees.

Blog Assignment #10 ( Hiu Wing, Chu)

Be honest, I am not really enjoy this interview, because I hate to talk with stranger. However, I know this is my personal problem, so I shouldn’t complain anything. I remember the first people I tried to interview were an American. When I say “hi” to her, she try to pretend really nice to me, but after I told her that I want to ask her a few question, she rejected me immediately. This experience make me have a feeling that interview the same country’s people will be easier, so all of my interviewees are Asian.During the interview, I appear that almost 3 of 10 question have the same answer, It make me know that if I have chance to do it again, the first thing I must do is change those question and make my paper have more different data can support. Moreover, I surprising that happiness is something very personal. What I think is happy might not be the same for other people, such as one of the interviewee think that take a nap in the afternoon can make him feel happy, but in my mind, I just think that is waste time. But whatever their answer, they all agreed that happiness can help to improve their life quality and it is a feeling that they can’t lost in their life!

Andrew Kim "Assignment #10"

Since I had history paper due last friday, i started to prepared for this interview quiet late. But luckily, there were plenty of people going around on campus on sunday, and i could safely finish my interviews on that day. Before the weekend, I actually set an interview appointment with two Korean brothers who live off campus. They were studying in the library even though it was weekend and helped me conducting interviews. I really appreciated them and I feel like buying them a dinner sometime before summer break.

I interviewed mostly Korean people, and used Korean language, which was not very helpful to improvement of my English skill. However, i used English to one of the Koreans, because she was not accustomed to speak in Korean. Even though she is Korean citizen, she spent most of her life outside of Korea, moving around Switzerland, Malaysia, England, Etc , since her father is a diplomat. Interview with her was very interesting, even though her data doesn't reveal any unique patterns.

Lakshmi Blog assignment # 10

The interview was really interesting to me because I selected a topic what I was really into. The answers which I received from the interviewees were into my main question. By collecting data I found that there are new issues for the international students really have to be frustrated. I also didn't know about them before, as I don't get time to hang out with friends. The problems they had was unbelievable to me sometimes as I also didn't have any idea about them. I found myself in person that most of the American students are not helpful the way that they always try to show us, but not all the American students. It could be because of the living style they are used to, which we really cannot understant very easily. The interviewees really liked to answer to the question but several prefered to answer the question paper while I was with them, because they were not confident enough of their language ability. I was so satisfied about the work I did but was annoyed while I was doing my presentation about this in the class, because one of the students was laughing most of the time during my presentation and it made me mostly verge of tears although I started my presentation very confidently.