The Exchange S/U Equation
When you have a ten page essay due in about 20 hours time, and you have not started because you can't really get settled down on your topic, you know you're in some kind of trouble. So the only thing to hope for, is that the grades won't really matter, and that you're on exchange. Yay, I am!
With deadlines all around and exams looming, the issue of the S/U option surfaced. I would say it's a simple yet complicated matter. We used to casually talk about how the absence of grades would make things more easy going and relaxed, and how we needn't worry about CAP and such.
Yes, it's true. 'Project Escapism from CAP' has worked really well this semester here at CUHK, as I have practically not thought about my CAP at all throughout the past few months, an amazing feat considering how it's been constantly surfacing in my life for the past 2 years. I have definitely also enjoyed more, and no doubt fatigue and frustrations did occasionally set in, the overall pressure and stress is definitely much less from that at home. Exams are less than a week from now, but I'm not exactly bothered, unlike how I would have started revisions already back at home, or started being worried that I've not started revisions.
Then again, the S/U option is actually a little more complex than what many think. It's only until you get the chance to come on exchange then will you realise. When we tell ourselves to 'just aim for a pass', how do we actually do that? To me, it's a really hard thing to do. How do we know what is the bare minimum to pass? So if I have a 10 page essay, can I just hand in 7 pages, and assume that even with some mistakes here and there, I should safely hit the passing mark? How does one gauge? So when the results come in, and I realised I failed, am I suppose to tell myself 'if only' I had put in a little more? Obviously not, so despite things being a little more relaxed, I'm still telling myself to give it my all whenever possible.
Bottom line is, I see the luxury of S/U not really as an option, but more of a back up safety net. Furthermore, I think it's just in almost all of us to just want to try our best in whatever we do.
Oh, and I just realised that my days left in HK, is even lesser than the number of weeks in my timeline. How time flies ...
With deadlines all around and exams looming, the issue of the S/U option surfaced. I would say it's a simple yet complicated matter. We used to casually talk about how the absence of grades would make things more easy going and relaxed, and how we needn't worry about CAP and such.
Yes, it's true. 'Project Escapism from CAP' has worked really well this semester here at CUHK, as I have practically not thought about my CAP at all throughout the past few months, an amazing feat considering how it's been constantly surfacing in my life for the past 2 years. I have definitely also enjoyed more, and no doubt fatigue and frustrations did occasionally set in, the overall pressure and stress is definitely much less from that at home. Exams are less than a week from now, but I'm not exactly bothered, unlike how I would have started revisions already back at home, or started being worried that I've not started revisions.
Then again, the S/U option is actually a little more complex than what many think. It's only until you get the chance to come on exchange then will you realise. When we tell ourselves to 'just aim for a pass', how do we actually do that? To me, it's a really hard thing to do. How do we know what is the bare minimum to pass? So if I have a 10 page essay, can I just hand in 7 pages, and assume that even with some mistakes here and there, I should safely hit the passing mark? How does one gauge? So when the results come in, and I realised I failed, am I suppose to tell myself 'if only' I had put in a little more? Obviously not, so despite things being a little more relaxed, I'm still telling myself to give it my all whenever possible.
Bottom line is, I see the luxury of S/U not really as an option, but more of a back up safety net. Furthermore, I think it's just in almost all of us to just want to try our best in whatever we do.
Oh, and I just realised that my days left in HK, is even lesser than the number of weeks in my timeline. How time flies ...
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