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What was he thinking?
nothing much to add this week, except time is passing by extremely fast (week 3 already!). Was smacked with another project this week. When will it end?! It’s really easy for the profs to throw “group assignments” at us. Why bother do your job? just let the students do their own research and present during class. You don’t even have to talk much! And my favourite quote from a prof: “My way of dealing with complains from groups who say their team members are not contributing is this, i don’t deal with it. It’s up to you guys to find a way out.”
and.. the ending to 黄金路 really sucks.
A surprise i got recently
It’s nice, sweet and definitely not necessary
Thanks~~
cudnt donate blood as my temperature was too high. 38 degrees plus! very surprised as i was feeling okay. two more measurements and the temp was still too high, 37 degrees plus plus. The doc said she’d keep my form and i can try again later in the afternoon after classes which i did, but my temp was still too high. sigh. Note to self: next time go donate on the 1st day and not the last.
it was nice to see what one of my friend couple did. the lady was going to donate blood and her bf sent her to SAC where the blood donation was going on. she asked him to donate also but he wasnt really comfortable with it so he declined and left to make his way to LT first. However he reappeared later as we were filling in the forms. He changed his mind and was gonna donate blood together with his gf afterall. i find it kinda sweet.
The cycle of lectures, tutorials, projects, presentations and exams has began, and the sense of dread i’ve been feeling hasnt gone away.
I had a bad feeling about this sem as i knew there’d be projects thrown out to us.
Project work is not like tutorials; tutorials can be settled with time and notes/textbooks. Even if you do not attempt them it’s your problem when you don’t do well in exams. But project work.. research can take alot of time and even if you spend time searching there’s still a chance of not finding what you’re looking for, or worse contradicting data from different sources. Time put in maynt equal results. And you’re letting the team down when you do not/ cannot do your part.
I had food poisoning on the 1st day of sch, actually the stomach felt weird the night before the 1st day. I woke up in the middle of the night around 2am feeling a little sick in the stomach but due to (or thanks to) my laziness i didnt give it much thought and continued sleeping without getting up. Woke up again close to 6am and the pain was still there! It wasnt going away on it’s own. After many trips to the toilet puking/ letting go did i feel better. And searched online for “food poisoning self cure” and read there wasnt a need to go see the doc as it ususally goes away after awhile. What a way to start the sem huh.
Didnt get any slack electives at all! My electives are the ones pulling up my GPA.. no good elective = no good grades! (Saw 11 slots opened up for a slack elective just now and they were snapped up before i can register them at 10am. sigh..)
2007 seemed to have passed by very quickly. Remember seeing an amazing rainbow on the 1st day of 2007
It was one of the nicer experiences in 07. The effect of 7% GST adjustment was felt fully the other day at Swensens, together with 10% service charge the bill was increased almost 20%.
Exam results were better than i expected. Not good results but at least managed to clear all subjects 
I was really worried about maths, stats and e-commerce, especially stats with all the careless mistakes. Oh, how do you guys check your results? I have to use a book to cover my computer screen and view grades for each subject one at a time. The thought of seeing all (bad) results at one time is too stressful.
Most Useless Tutorials award goes to E-commerce and second half of Shopping Econs taught by Colonel Sanders. They’re tied. Both required preparation of presentation materials which were time consuming but in the end added little value in the quest for better grades.
