Ever since the start of school, i've been getting the feeling that the weeks are becoming shorter. after a couple of repetitions of my schedule, i think i've finally figured out why. my monday's timetable is extermely similar to thursday's, and the same goes for tuesdays and fridays. on top of that, wednesday's a day off. so it's like within one actual work week, i have 2 mini-weeks and 1 mini-weekend. what's worse is that secondary school and JC have sort of conditioned me to expect 7 classes per day on average, in which i'll see about 5 different tutors/lecturers. however, in university, i have 2 lectures a day and 2 to 3 tutorials per week. converted to JC equivalents, that's like a half-day. so it's (80% X 50%...) 40% of what i'm used to in JC. sadly, the workload seems to be about the same.
honestly, i don't know if i should be worried about my academics at this point of time. i mean, i can follow what the lecturer's talking about, understand the notes when i can be bothered to read them at home, and do *most* of the tutorial questions. still, i don't think that's enough. chem was all fine and well in JC; all it took was getting used to some new ideas, most of which were elaborations/expansions of old ideas anyway. at university level, the new ideas we have to get used to border on ridiculous. like this one..."imagine that the electron is spread out around the atom, like peanut butter on bread." better yet, try "an electron, travelling in a one-dimensional line, gets from point A to point B without passing through the mid-point of that line." damn quantum physics. there's a lot more i could stun both you and myself with, but let's not get into so much detail. bad for health. i should probably put more effort into all modules...those formulae aren't going to spontaneously embed themselves in my brain. if there's one thing i can be grateful about, it's that my modules do have some overlapping content, which makes for easier understanding since i hear it from different disciplines' point of view.
my flu-like symptoms are clearing up...guess today's added rest did help after all. there's still some slight coughing, nose blockage and general sub-normal feelings, but that should (with a bit of luck,) disappear by the time i wake up tomorrow morning.
so far, i still haven't confirmed my laptop order yet. yes, i know i'm slow. my dad seems to want me to take the student loan for it, and i'm quite against that, despite it being interest-free. personal policy/values and all that. i don't know...right now, i'm still surviving fine without a dedicated school laptop, but i don't know if i can say the same thing next year, next semester, or even next month! well...i guess we'll see how it goes (as usual). only disadvantage of not having a laptop right now is that i can't make use of the school's free wireless network. it gets annoying when i want to quickly wiki up a figure (say, a molecular mass value accurate to 3 decimal places) when i'm nowhere near a library. sure, i can use my phone, but it somehow doesn't pick up NUS' wireless signal very well (tried and tested). oh well.
it's fast approaching 1:00am now, which is my cue to get off the computer and go to sleep. i hope that i'll be able to fall asleep quickly tonight...past trend shows that i don't sleep well the night before early morning classes. i wonder why?
honestly, i don't know if i should be worried about my academics at this point of time. i mean, i can follow what the lecturer's talking about, understand the notes when i can be bothered to read them at home, and do *most* of the tutorial questions. still, i don't think that's enough. chem was all fine and well in JC; all it took was getting used to some new ideas, most of which were elaborations/expansions of old ideas anyway. at university level, the new ideas we have to get used to border on ridiculous. like this one..."imagine that the electron is spread out around the atom, like peanut butter on bread." better yet, try "an electron, travelling in a one-dimensional line, gets from point A to point B without passing through the mid-point of that line." damn quantum physics. there's a lot more i could stun both you and myself with, but let's not get into so much detail. bad for health. i should probably put more effort into all modules...those formulae aren't going to spontaneously embed themselves in my brain. if there's one thing i can be grateful about, it's that my modules do have some overlapping content, which makes for easier understanding since i hear it from different disciplines' point of view.
my flu-like symptoms are clearing up...guess today's added rest did help after all. there's still some slight coughing, nose blockage and general sub-normal feelings, but that should (with a bit of luck,) disappear by the time i wake up tomorrow morning.
so far, i still haven't confirmed my laptop order yet. yes, i know i'm slow. my dad seems to want me to take the student loan for it, and i'm quite against that, despite it being interest-free. personal policy/values and all that. i don't know...right now, i'm still surviving fine without a dedicated school laptop, but i don't know if i can say the same thing next year, next semester, or even next month! well...i guess we'll see how it goes (as usual). only disadvantage of not having a laptop right now is that i can't make use of the school's free wireless network. it gets annoying when i want to quickly wiki up a figure (say, a molecular mass value accurate to 3 decimal places) when i'm nowhere near a library. sure, i can use my phone, but it somehow doesn't pick up NUS' wireless signal very well (tried and tested). oh well.
it's fast approaching 1:00am now, which is my cue to get off the computer and go to sleep. i hope that i'll be able to fall asleep quickly tonight...past trend shows that i don't sleep well the night before early morning classes. i wonder why?
-random thought of the day: Need a haircut soon.-
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