Hard Work Reaps Rewards?

In my first semester, my biggest project for my semester was probably my Changing Landscape one. Did it with Zhimin, Sham, Jessica and Alicia. We were doing on Joo Chiat and the topic of Peranakan, and we went all out for this project.

We carefully drew up our surveys, and went down to Joo Chiat to conduct our surveys on the locals, and to town to conduct surveys on the foreigners. We toured the Joo Chiat area a few times, took some pictures, and even went to look for shop owners and residents in the area to ask more about about the place. We managed to do interviews with some of the peranakan kueh shop owners. We also managed to contact the president of the peranakan association of singapore, and interviewed him. We then looked up a Prof who is peranakan, and also did an interview on him. Apart from all these primary methods, we also went to look for websites and books pertaining to Joo Chiat and peranakan. Finally when everything was compiled, we stayed over in school and finally managed to rush out our report, all done and nicely formated.

Yes, we did all this for a Singapore Studies module, and our grade turned out to be amongst the average. Lesson learnt, hard work does not necessarily reap rewards. What makes the feeling worse? Is knowing that your friend's group who did everything based on research from the Internet, got a similar grade.

Grades and the certificate is one of the main reasons what we are living our lives for now. But its so frustrating to know that sometimes, as much as you try and try, you just cannot control your grades.