1/Jan
2009

Happy New Year from ICQ Friendship Cards


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21/Dec
2008

The Report from 2008 Hi Seoul Winter Festival


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The opening ceremony of the 2008 Winter Festival is conducted at Cheonggye Plaza along with the lighting ceremony from 17:30 to 18:30 on December 19(Fri).

The lighting ceremony that heralds the start of the Winter Festival, kicked off with an acapella performances followed by the presentation of the exhibit of lighted up structures namely the ‘Pure White Pond’ and ‘Digital Stream’ as well as ‘Silvery Screen’ which have been put up for displayed around Cheonggye Plaza.
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18/Dec
2008

Tips get a college roommate


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Anxious college freshmen can relax. No matter who will be sharing their dorm room, they have the power to make the relationship better, University of Michigan research suggests.

The research, reported in the September 2008 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, was conducted by psychology experts Jennifer Crocker and Amy Canevello at the U-M Institute for Social Research.

Tips get a college roommate“Roommate relationships can be really good or they can be really bad. And the fear is that they’ll go from bad to worse,” said Crocker, a social psychology expert who studies how our own behavior and attitudes affect the kinds of relationships we experience. “But our study shows that you can create a supportive relationship and turn the stranger who’s your roommate into a friend”.

For the research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, Crocker and Canevello studied more than 300 college freshmen who were assigned to share rooms with other students they didn’t know at the start of the first semester. In one study, participants were surveyed once a week for 10 weeks about their attitudes toward friendships in general, and about their feelings of loneliness and experiences of conflict. In a second study, 65 roommate pairs completed daily reports about their relationships during a three-week period in the middle of the semester. …continue reading Tips get a college roommate » »


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