Saturday, July 10, 2010
UniSim Orientation!!
OMG, I can't believe that after so many years, I am going for orientation again. I was initially worried that the orientation would be some crappy stuff like what goes on at NUS and NTU (no offense kiddies but I'm too old to play like that ok?).
I initially set a ridiculously early time to leave home and as usual, I was later than that lol. I wanted to arrive early to collect my course materials and the map on the UniSim website is not particularly details as to how you should walk to Blk 82 of Ngee Ann Polytechnic. When I arrived at NP, I decided to walk in through NP instead of through SIM. Surely you can get to a NP block within NP right?? Yep. Except that there was some construction going on and I had to detour... detour.. detour.... and when I finally found Blk 82 I was like "Sheesh!!! That is SIM HQ right there with a gate to Blk 82 so Blk 82 is almost bloody next to the main road. Bleah at least I got some exercise out of it!!"
Anyway I still ended up in SIM early. Walked around a bit to get orientated to the area. Can't say that I'm familiar with it but I guess I should be able to not get myself lost in there for hours. Checked out the washrooms (VERY IMPORTANT!!), not too bad. At least they don't seem to stink although I am not sure if it is because it was because it was an orientation Saturday lol.
Checked out Popular, the files with the SIM logo was definitely cheaper. I might consider buying them although I think I might end up not using them lol.
Got a thumb drive as a door gift when registering for the orientation. Not bad lol. I love freebies. Especially freebies that are actually useful (I don't need anymore travel adapters, travel locks, flashlights and stuff ok?). Also got a free messenger bag later on in the day! During the welcome address, the acting Dean kinda forgot my programme. Got to say I was a little sad on that but then later she came back on to specially address the fact that she forgot about our programme. I guess that makes it all A-OK!
After the School's welcome address, we were split into programmes for more detailed briefs. Our programme is quite small compared to the other programmes. I wonder if the BA Tamil Language and Literature programme is smaller than us or not. We might be smaller than they are! According to our programme head, this was the smallest intake so far. Only 28 students. I'm not sure if that is a good thing though..... plus I think NTU is coming up with a similar programme. Oh well, anyway I won't be able to qualify for the NTU intake and I'm not exactly expecting that this degree (should I manage to complete it) is well recognised.
I have a colleague who is unhappy with UniSim because his wife to be took a degree course in education and it is not recognised for employment by MOE. I would say that I wouldn't have expected to get a private degree and expect MOE to employ me because there is this place called NIE. Of course, if the degree is totally unrecognised by anyone, it'd be quite sad but one's gotta be prepared before you start the course, not find out after. For example, I don't think I will be able to find a job at the MFA based on this qualification, but I guess the skills I learn will be useful. I sure hope at least the skills are properly taught even though the paper qualification may not count for much.
Right now, I'm kinda excited for school to start but I think that halfway through the first semester I will start to feel sian of studying. I'm not quite the studying kind.
I am also worried about my Chinese standards. 3 out of 4 modules in my first semester are Chinese modules. I'm so worried!! It seems like there are some other people in my cohort who are also worried, but I think they should have a better standard of Chinese writing than I do. My writing sucks. I also found out that I'm amongst the 'not so old' in my cohort. I didn't quite expect that lol. I guess what my programme head says is true. The younger ones tend to prefer Business related topics instead.
For now, I hope I can keep up the enthusiasm for as long as possible. This is costing me almost $3000 for this semester alone!!!
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OMG, I can't believe that after so many years, I am going for orientation again. I was initially worried that the orientation would be some crappy stuff like what goes on at NUS and NTU (no offense kiddies but I'm too old to play like that ok?).
I initially set a ridiculously early time to leave home and as usual, I was later than that lol. I wanted to arrive early to collect my course materials and the map on the UniSim website is not particularly details as to how you should walk to Blk 82 of Ngee Ann Polytechnic. When I arrived at NP, I decided to walk in through NP instead of through SIM. Surely you can get to a NP block within NP right?? Yep. Except that there was some construction going on and I had to detour... detour.. detour.... and when I finally found Blk 82 I was like "Sheesh!!! That is SIM HQ right there with a gate to Blk 82 so Blk 82 is almost bloody next to the main road. Bleah at least I got some exercise out of it!!"
Anyway I still ended up in SIM early. Walked around a bit to get orientated to the area. Can't say that I'm familiar with it but I guess I should be able to not get myself lost in there for hours. Checked out the washrooms (VERY IMPORTANT!!), not too bad. At least they don't seem to stink although I am not sure if it is because it was because it was an orientation Saturday lol.
Checked out Popular, the files with the SIM logo was definitely cheaper. I might consider buying them although I think I might end up not using them lol.
Got a thumb drive as a door gift when registering for the orientation. Not bad lol. I love freebies. Especially freebies that are actually useful (I don't need anymore travel adapters, travel locks, flashlights and stuff ok?). Also got a free messenger bag later on in the day! During the welcome address, the acting Dean kinda forgot my programme. Got to say I was a little sad on that but then later she came back on to specially address the fact that she forgot about our programme. I guess that makes it all A-OK!
After the School's welcome address, we were split into programmes for more detailed briefs. Our programme is quite small compared to the other programmes. I wonder if the BA Tamil Language and Literature programme is smaller than us or not. We might be smaller than they are! According to our programme head, this was the smallest intake so far. Only 28 students. I'm not sure if that is a good thing though..... plus I think NTU is coming up with a similar programme. Oh well, anyway I won't be able to qualify for the NTU intake and I'm not exactly expecting that this degree (should I manage to complete it) is well recognised.
I have a colleague who is unhappy with UniSim because his wife to be took a degree course in education and it is not recognised for employment by MOE. I would say that I wouldn't have expected to get a private degree and expect MOE to employ me because there is this place called NIE. Of course, if the degree is totally unrecognised by anyone, it'd be quite sad but one's gotta be prepared before you start the course, not find out after. For example, I don't think I will be able to find a job at the MFA based on this qualification, but I guess the skills I learn will be useful. I sure hope at least the skills are properly taught even though the paper qualification may not count for much.
Right now, I'm kinda excited for school to start but I think that halfway through the first semester I will start to feel sian of studying. I'm not quite the studying kind.
I am also worried about my Chinese standards. 3 out of 4 modules in my first semester are Chinese modules. I'm so worried!! It seems like there are some other people in my cohort who are also worried, but I think they should have a better standard of Chinese writing than I do. My writing sucks. I also found out that I'm amongst the 'not so old' in my cohort. I didn't quite expect that lol. I guess what my programme head says is true. The younger ones tend to prefer Business related topics instead.
For now, I hope I can keep up the enthusiasm for as long as possible. This is costing me almost $3000 for this semester alone!!!
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