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27 August, 2008

I can’t hear you!

16:51:29 | School Life | writebacks (5)

Facing some major issues with the professor in one of my modules now. He speaks in a whisper, and to quote Mithi - his voice is like a cosine graph.

He starts off just audible. And as his lecture (or sometimes, as bad as within the span of one sentence) progresses, his voice slowly trails off until he becomes barely audible, and soon after - he is basically just whispering to himself.

How to get Mr Cosine Graph back to his maximum value?

Just yell.

“PROF! WE CAN’T HEAR YOU!”

He then starts off just audible again, and trails off soon after. Basically, it’s deja vu all over again. What we really need now is a permanent solution to make the fellow heard.

My mates and I basically struggled throughout the entire lecture, asking him to repeat almost everything, making the whole lecture drag on even longer. Plus, the gaps in his sentences due to his occasional softness makes me feel as if I’m working on a ‘fill in the blank’ puzzle.

Next week, I am going to fight for a seat in the front row. All the frontal seats were full by the time I reached the classroom yesterday.

Oh, and the best part?

After much feedback from the class about his volume, he seemed to become slightly more conscious about his speech - and beckoned to another coursemate sitting near the back row.

“CAN YOU HEAR ME?” he err … yelled. Sort of.

To him, he may be yelling but to me (and possibly the rest of the class), he was just slightly above audible.

“Huh?!?” said coursemate shot my friends and I a puzzled look.

“Why is he asking me to clear him?!?”

19 August, 2008

First day as a Final Year Student

23:36:50 | School Life | writebacks (4)

First week of school. Whoopie!

Okay, okay - I lied. Not particularly enthusiastic this time round since I’ve been spending most of my vacation period in school. Thankfully, I’ve enough interesting modules to maintain my interest, hopefully for the entire semester so that I would not lose steam halfway.

Not to mention how the first half of the semester will be littered with doctors’ appointment fer me. -Mutters. But I’ll cope.

Meanwhile, I’m happily bouncing around and proclaiming to everyone about how I have a two-day timetable and they do not. (Hehehe.)

Tuesday
08.30-11.45 - Data Warehousing and Data Analytics
17.30-18.45 - Social Psychology
19.00-22.15 - Corporate Creativity

Thursday
17.30-18.45 - Social Psychology

Tuesday seems a wee too hectic, eh? I thought so too.

But after today, it seems pretty tolerable - considering how I spent most of my afternoon break curled up in a sleeping bag in one of them study rooms, fast asleep.

And I feel kind of bad because the sleeping bag is not mine.

So perhaps if I lug a sleeping bag coupled with a few pillows to school every Tuesday, I just might be able to survive this term. Classes for three hours, five hours of sleep, and then another four hours of classes. Hrrmph, sounds feasible, non?

Anyway, it seems kind of surreal that I’m a … final year student.

It still seems like yesterday when I was a wee little freshman in the same school, looking around in a daze, and struggling to find my way to my first class. Whereas now, the tables have been turned and I’m standing aside, laughing at how lost they look.

The best part?

I still have people coming up to me and telling me I look like a freshman. Or a year two student at most. Gah.

So, my first official day at school was highlighted with yours truly struggling with a locker (the locker used to open for me every time and all of a sudden, it decided to conk out on me especially when I needed whatever I wanted to get from within the most … the err, sleeping bag), plenty of junk food and loads of sleep.

I know, not your typical school day. ;)

28 June, 2008

Protected: Unanswered questions

02:38:01 | Private, Ranting, School Life | Private comments