Tuesday, August 30


Things I learnt from university days:

- NEVER blog at night, when you are on LAN sharing, no fighting for bandwidth. Argh.

- You are on your own baby. Seriously. No one can have exactly the same schedule, or the same set of things you need to do. There will be at one time when you need to break off to settle your own stuff. That includes paying your own hostel and tuition fees, understanding certain administrative processes, and buying your own course books and notes.

- It's sure gonna be boring not knowing anyone around, especially if you are the only one you know that's in your particular course. Sure pays to have friends studying the same course with you. (That way you can copy tutorials, and have your friends copy lecture notes for you. Heh.)

- Be prepared to sleep at 2am every day if you stay in a hall, unless you don't want to continue staying in your next year. Join more activities = more friends = better popularity = better chance at getting posts in main committees = get good points (ECA, if you'd call it) = better chance at retaining your hostel room. Pretty political if you'd ask me, but that's survival I guess. We are getting more and more primeval.

- You will NOT survive a week without any access to a LAN or wireless. Trust me. Every single piece of your lecture notes is online, and there goes your lunch time when you are squeezing in the printing room, looking at the print queues on screens like watching the market stocks. Solution to this problem? Buy a printer la.

- For effective slimming sessions, take a roundabout trip around NTU's famous North and South Spine. Each session includes a 10 minute trek from the tip of South Spine, the Main Lecture Theatre, to the other tip at North Spine. (Bear in mind NTU is built on undulating land.) Results become gradually visible after the 2nd month of therapy. For faster results, trek back towards Hall of Residence 4.

- Don't try printing notes when you are distracted by stuff like blogging. Most likely you will end up with the wrong pages or you miss a page or maybe the entire set of lecture notes. (FYI, that just happened to me.)

Posted by Isabelle at 6:17 pm