A Weekend in School
Well will be spending my weekend in school, as I still have quite a few assignments to rush, still! Yes, it never seems to end. Since I went back during deepavali, I think I shall give a home a miss this weekend, and continue rushing my projects. As much as my work rate is slow in hall, its even slower at home. Anyway, I usually go home also to at least see my parents once a week, but they are away this weekend again, so no difference. Some thoughts:
Apparently, when I spoke about how I did OK for my intercultural test, I may have to take back my words. As I said, the max was 39/40, but the next two friends I asked actually got 37/40. When around hearing from them that alot of their other friends got quite high too, and I more or less knew what the mean roughly was. And I may be sitting right smack in there. To think of it, this 20% from this test may not be as important now, as everyone seems to be doing quite well, so much would lie on the project. Pray pray.
I liked Bingde's recent entry, about planning and scheming, and school as a whole. Agree very much with what he mentioned, especially the part about how to many its seems like a test of your knowledge of the subject, but its actually more about the scope, angle of approach, and also luck which determines your fate after 13 weeks of rush studying. Looking back now, how much have we really comprehended from our past modules. Here and there, we remember some things, but honestly, most have been forgotten. And yes, totally agree on the point, whereby those who do well, are not necessarily the muggers. Of course, there are really crazy muggers out there who push themselves so much that their hard work pays off, but I dare say that most others are tacticians. I know of quite a few tacticians myself, and would say I probably managed to pull a stunt like theirs last semester. Just couldn't seem to do it this semester though.
Lastly, yes I too heard about NUS dropping to 33rd position. From 19 to 33, thats 14 positions. But to be honest, as much as I am a proud student of NUS (taking into account that I could make it into NUS from poly), the rankings do not really matter to me. Not sure how true this is, but from what I know, the rankings are actually based more on research, than tertiary education. So, does it really impact us? Of course the most important issue would be that of 'face', but to think of it, does it really matter? NUS will still be Singapore's top university (my assumption, with no disregard to NTU and SMU), and it will not make much of a difference. Most of us went to NUS not because of its ranking, but simply because its an affordable and well established local university at home (with government's help of course).
Apparently, when I spoke about how I did OK for my intercultural test, I may have to take back my words. As I said, the max was 39/40, but the next two friends I asked actually got 37/40. When around hearing from them that alot of their other friends got quite high too, and I more or less knew what the mean roughly was. And I may be sitting right smack in there. To think of it, this 20% from this test may not be as important now, as everyone seems to be doing quite well, so much would lie on the project. Pray pray.
I liked Bingde's recent entry, about planning and scheming, and school as a whole. Agree very much with what he mentioned, especially the part about how to many its seems like a test of your knowledge of the subject, but its actually more about the scope, angle of approach, and also luck which determines your fate after 13 weeks of rush studying. Looking back now, how much have we really comprehended from our past modules. Here and there, we remember some things, but honestly, most have been forgotten. And yes, totally agree on the point, whereby those who do well, are not necessarily the muggers. Of course, there are really crazy muggers out there who push themselves so much that their hard work pays off, but I dare say that most others are tacticians. I know of quite a few tacticians myself, and would say I probably managed to pull a stunt like theirs last semester. Just couldn't seem to do it this semester though.
Lastly, yes I too heard about NUS dropping to 33rd position. From 19 to 33, thats 14 positions. But to be honest, as much as I am a proud student of NUS (taking into account that I could make it into NUS from poly), the rankings do not really matter to me. Not sure how true this is, but from what I know, the rankings are actually based more on research, than tertiary education. So, does it really impact us? Of course the most important issue would be that of 'face', but to think of it, does it really matter? NUS will still be Singapore's top university (my assumption, with no disregard to NTU and SMU), and it will not make much of a difference. Most of us went to NUS not because of its ranking, but simply because its an affordable and well established local university at home (with government's help of course).
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