Fresh Grad in Biomed Science
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Today went for "lectures" at nus... yea tagged along my dear to lecture. I can tell how happy he was. lol. grining the moment we managed to siam that signboard when turning into the carpark.
Eng fac in nus was not as bad as I have imagined. The buildings are pretty new and there are aircon in most places. I guess my impression was being misled by the presentation of nus science fac buildings.
So first day going into nus, seeing how student have their lectures and their way of uni life, it's quite an experience. I was tagging along him like a lost dog, really lost... going up the stairs then take the life and walked through some twist and turns and going down the stairs again. man! its tiring okey! i have never walk so much stairs in my 3 years uni life in 2 unis. At most I have only climbed the hills in glasgow, and walked down the stairs and slopes in adelaide. WHY on earth nus have so many stairs! Its super hilly!
Had lunch at eng fac canteen before 1st lecture at 12noon. Met zhengwei and his other friends in the LT. 2 lectures for today and each 2 hours - some eng mod and 1 history ssa. yup, i know, they are weird man, taking sub that not related to any of their course. sth call "GEM" for general module or sth, then they still have core modules from their own course. The more I hear, the more I feel that I am so lucky to be overseas, where the enrollment and course system is not as complicated (i.e. troublesome without much advantage in the learning of student - i really dun see the point in bidding for ur module and refundings "points" to u...its like a child's play).
Anyway, I must say Dr. Beer gave me a first hand in training my listening in lecture and guessing where he comes from. lol, i guess he is quite am interesting guy, but really I never heard someone speaks like that in lecture. But I was told that he is not that bad, there were worst and they had them for the last sem, lectures go like bullet train without a break... or rather they are chanting for the high score of their students? which i guess it doesn't contribute that much if their student can't catch wad they said anyway. Lecturers overseas usually speaks english in reasonable pace and their accents are not that hard to understand, though some of them do have their uniqueness. (Thank god that i never have a lecture with heavy scottish accent for lectures....)
First hour in that lecture hall, my brain already switched off, I only managed to stay a wake for a wee while and read a page or two of my journels. Man, that was boring, and I was not the only one in my own world. The lecture hall was filled with chatters and people are either online doing sth else, or like me fishing in the sea of chants.
Right, that 2 hours finally passed and I followed weekim and friend to central lib for notes printing before the 2nd lecture. And u won't believe this: we are sitting on the floor just where u step into the lecture hall - well we came late, but there WERE really that many people taking this module. The feeling was like, we paid $64 bucks for a concert at the mountain top kind of box seats, where u heard the voice but dun get to see the "popstar"'s face.
History - building a nation - sound super like a society study chapter in secondary sch right? Yup, that introductory is no less about "culturing" the younger generation of theirs nation's proud history dispite of their 43years of independence. The lecturers were not as boring, when it came to show-casing Singapore's achievements - pretty interesting facts like some that we already known, of two, quite interesting - Singaporeans are the most MOTIVATED workers (My interpretation - all are willing to do ...erm.. take a step further - skw) But Singaporeans are also the most UNHAPPIEST people (not sure in asia or on earth) but yea, unhappy dispite of all their affluence in society and national achievements. I must say, Singaporeans are trying their best to set standards for their neigbouring countries or even the west. Wad more I can say when the facts are real and they flashes through the screen in the LT. lol. I was just kinda surprised that Hong Kong was that little bit behind Singapore. Afterall, we were the leading "country" (back then - we see ourselves as separate from the mainland, then and now) . We have the freedom of speech, but not all voiced opinions were converted the changes for the better of the society by those with powers... well, a personal opinion that is. Anyway, drop that sub, I am no good nor I have interest in politics.
So the 4 hours of lectures ended 15 mins earlier. We then followed to the central lib again to photocopy their readings (man. history, all about reading X.X lucky that is not me), on the way bumping into jinrong, who helped me into the lib so I dun have to wait outside like dog on leash tied to a pole. The lib is quite big I would say, I guess its either comparable to or abit bigger (therefore may be less books) than the one in adelaide. However, it is absolutely 'no kick' compare to the glasgow one. 12 storeies on a hill and i guess thousands of com free to use, nus still have to equip their lib with more.
Lib - boring, then went down to co-op (i.e. bookshop - WHY they are called co-op? anyone can explain?) to check out the book that he needs for lecture. And we need to keep out bags in lockers, quened for enquiry and wait for them to get the book and scan then know the price =.=" impressive. i guess they should have just keyed in the price with name or author and just check using com? well,may be its just 2nd day of sch and they are not handling with the flood of students. I can see that they earn heaps, coz a super thin book already cost $18.80. crazy. no wonder there are so much student priates out there. In glasgow, the lib has that many copies of book to borrow that u dun have to worry - lecturers actually tell u dun bother about buying textbook; whereas aus is different, they wan the uni the earn the most out of ur years u are there. Sorry about the comparsion, but I can't help to keep comparing.
So eventually we get to a snack stall after the up and down and turns around the uni, some cakes and buns to fuel my brain before heading home. Quite a fun day actually, and I do enjoy the fun of going back to sch - not studying there that is. hahahahah. I should be going sch for the next 2 weeks. so there may be many more "discoveries" to be made.
Eng fac in nus was not as bad as I have imagined. The buildings are pretty new and there are aircon in most places. I guess my impression was being misled by the presentation of nus science fac buildings.
So first day going into nus, seeing how student have their lectures and their way of uni life, it's quite an experience. I was tagging along him like a lost dog, really lost... going up the stairs then take the life and walked through some twist and turns and going down the stairs again. man! its tiring okey! i have never walk so much stairs in my 3 years uni life in 2 unis. At most I have only climbed the hills in glasgow, and walked down the stairs and slopes in adelaide. WHY on earth nus have so many stairs! Its super hilly!
Had lunch at eng fac canteen before 1st lecture at 12noon. Met zhengwei and his other friends in the LT. 2 lectures for today and each 2 hours - some eng mod and 1 history ssa. yup, i know, they are weird man, taking sub that not related to any of their course. sth call "GEM" for general module or sth, then they still have core modules from their own course. The more I hear, the more I feel that I am so lucky to be overseas, where the enrollment and course system is not as complicated (i.e. troublesome without much advantage in the learning of student - i really dun see the point in bidding for ur module and refundings "points" to u...its like a child's play).
Anyway, I must say Dr. Beer gave me a first hand in training my listening in lecture and guessing where he comes from. lol, i guess he is quite am interesting guy, but really I never heard someone speaks like that in lecture. But I was told that he is not that bad, there were worst and they had them for the last sem, lectures go like bullet train without a break... or rather they are chanting for the high score of their students? which i guess it doesn't contribute that much if their student can't catch wad they said anyway. Lecturers overseas usually speaks english in reasonable pace and their accents are not that hard to understand, though some of them do have their uniqueness. (Thank god that i never have a lecture with heavy scottish accent for lectures....)
First hour in that lecture hall, my brain already switched off, I only managed to stay a wake for a wee while and read a page or two of my journels. Man, that was boring, and I was not the only one in my own world. The lecture hall was filled with chatters and people are either online doing sth else, or like me fishing in the sea of chants.
Right, that 2 hours finally passed and I followed weekim and friend to central lib for notes printing before the 2nd lecture. And u won't believe this: we are sitting on the floor just where u step into the lecture hall - well we came late, but there WERE really that many people taking this module. The feeling was like, we paid $64 bucks for a concert at the mountain top kind of box seats, where u heard the voice but dun get to see the "popstar"'s face.
History - building a nation - sound super like a society study chapter in secondary sch right? Yup, that introductory is no less about "culturing" the younger generation of theirs nation's proud history dispite of their 43years of independence. The lecturers were not as boring, when it came to show-casing Singapore's achievements - pretty interesting facts like some that we already known, of two, quite interesting - Singaporeans are the most MOTIVATED workers (My interpretation - all are willing to do ...erm.. take a step further - skw) But Singaporeans are also the most UNHAPPIEST people (not sure in asia or on earth) but yea, unhappy dispite of all their affluence in society and national achievements. I must say, Singaporeans are trying their best to set standards for their neigbouring countries or even the west. Wad more I can say when the facts are real and they flashes through the screen in the LT. lol. I was just kinda surprised that Hong Kong was that little bit behind Singapore. Afterall, we were the leading "country" (back then - we see ourselves as separate from the mainland, then and now) . We have the freedom of speech, but not all voiced opinions were converted the changes for the better of the society by those with powers... well, a personal opinion that is. Anyway, drop that sub, I am no good nor I have interest in politics.
So the 4 hours of lectures ended 15 mins earlier. We then followed to the central lib again to photocopy their readings (man. history, all about reading X.X lucky that is not me), on the way bumping into jinrong, who helped me into the lib so I dun have to wait outside like dog on leash tied to a pole. The lib is quite big I would say, I guess its either comparable to or abit bigger (therefore may be less books) than the one in adelaide. However, it is absolutely 'no kick' compare to the glasgow one. 12 storeies on a hill and i guess thousands of com free to use, nus still have to equip their lib with more.
Lib - boring, then went down to co-op (i.e. bookshop - WHY they are called co-op? anyone can explain?) to check out the book that he needs for lecture. And we need to keep out bags in lockers, quened for enquiry and wait for them to get the book and scan then know the price =.=" impressive. i guess they should have just keyed in the price with name or author and just check using com? well,may be its just 2nd day of sch and they are not handling with the flood of students. I can see that they earn heaps, coz a super thin book already cost $18.80. crazy. no wonder there are so much student priates out there. In glasgow, the lib has that many copies of book to borrow that u dun have to worry - lecturers actually tell u dun bother about buying textbook; whereas aus is different, they wan the uni the earn the most out of ur years u are there. Sorry about the comparsion, but I can't help to keep comparing.
So eventually we get to a snack stall after the up and down and turns around the uni, some cakes and buns to fuel my brain before heading home. Quite a fun day actually, and I do enjoy the fun of going back to sch - not studying there that is. hahahahah. I should be going sch for the next 2 weeks. so there may be many more "discoveries" to be made.
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