Short dream of life
Since my friend starts to write a blog in English as a practice, I feel a burden to do some practice as well. There are only three un-English native speakers in my group: My advisor, a postdoc (Indian), and I. The rest of 6 others are either American or British. Furthermore, there are only two students in Astronomy are un-English natives. As a result, I dip myself into surrounding that requires lots of listening and speaking practices. While these practices are informal, and my grammar, vocabulary, presentation and writing skills remain untrained. Scientific writing and regular writing are different stories. People don't speak, write, listen like working on scientific articles, even if they are a scientist. Scientific writing can even be considered as a dialect based on English. Improve skills in scientific writing would be another story. Nevertheless, I had been interested in writing in English so that I can present some of my thoughts that I considered attractive to others...