I thought NUS was supposedly one of the ‘best’ universities in Asia and ranked #21 in the world. Why do the posts on NUSWhispers sound like they are written by uneducated, dumb as rocks sheeples?
Lol.
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NUS AY2017/2018 Sem 1 Module Reviews: EC4306, EC4307, EC4332, EC4394, GEK2008
EC4306 Applied Microeconomic Analysis
Content
Auctions, winner’s curse, and matching problems
First half of the semester, we learned about the different types of auctions (first-price auction, second-price auction, english auction) and the bidding strategies in each of these auctions. And winner’s curse, which is the tendency for the winning bid to be larger than the “true value” of the object.
Second half of the semester was all about matching. One-to-one matching with 2-sided preferences, one-to-one matching with one-sided preferences, one-to-many matching with 2-sided preferences, etc. For example – how to match a man and a woman together in a marriage problem, or how to match individuals to houses, schools to students, courses to students, etc.
Exams
Class Participation 10%
Midterm Exam 40%
Final Exam 50%
Personal Experience
Love-hate relationship with this module. Love because the content was easy + no homework assignments (well, there are but you don’t have to hand those in) + no group projects, hate because the lecturer was so dull and classes were so uninteresting. Definitely the most boring class of my semester. I swear, I end up dozing off every Thursday at some point or another during this class. Even with coffee.
The prof is really really long-winded. He’ll spend 30-40 minutes rambling about something that can be easily explained in 10 minutes or less. It’s just like a loop. Round and round he goes, when he stops talking nobody knows… like c’mon, I already understood you the first three times you said it. You don’t have to repeat it 3091402938402384029384 times. He can spend two whole hours on just 3 simple slides which could probably be covered in less than 30 minutes.
Prof is also super unhelpful. I emailed him asking one homework assignment-related question a few days before the midterm exam and his only reply was to “post it on the forum” where we were meant to “have a healthy and fruitful discussion”, which by the way was also completely dead. Thanks a lot, much appreciated.
And lastly, the midterm and final exams were so ridiculously easy it kinda irritated me. Especially with a small class size of 20, and we’re still being graded on a bell curve. Obviously everyone’s gonna do well so a single mark will make all the difference between getting an A or A-.
Grade
A
EC4307 Issues in Macroeconomics
Content
Basic consumption-saving model, basic asset pricing, real business cycles
Exams
Assignments 20%
Case Study 30% (15% for the presentation, 15% for the report)
Midterm Exam 40%
Class Participation 10%
Personal Experience
Easy module. It’s basically like EC2102 all over again. The content is very, very similar. Taught by Jo In-Hwan, who imo is a really good lecturer. He explains everything in a clear and concise manner, and doesn’t ramble on and bore you to death.
The midterm was not easy but not ridiculously difficult. There wasn’t enough time given and I (along with many other people) didn’t manage to complete the paper. When the prof announced “10 minutes left” towards the end of the exam, one student sitting in front of me in the lecture theatre kept muttering “fk la… fk la…. fk la….” under his breath and had I not been busy scribbling like a madwoman and trying to leave as little blanks as possible, I’d have laughed lol.
For the group project, each group had to select a country and write a 1500-word report on the country’s economy (one main macroeconomic problem in the economy + causes + proposed solutions). The only difficult thing about the entire project was keeping to the short 1500-word limit.
Grade
A
EC4332 Money and Banking II
Content
Bank run models, shadow banking, delegated monitoring, bank capital, market debt and bank loan models, etc. Basically all about banks.
Exams
Class Participation 10%
Homework Assignments 10%
Group Project 30%
Midterm Exam 10%
Final Exam 40%
Personal Experience
Probably the most difficult level 4000 Econs module I’ve taken to date. The prof mentioned that the previous semester, the class was so easy that students complained about it during the feedback. So he decided to increase the difficulty. Yay thanks.
I literally spent the entire weekend trying to do the first homework assignment (there are a total of 4 assignments) and I just about died doing it. But the good thing is, I understood each topic better after struggling through the assignments. And once I understood it, I was like, damn, why was I even struggling to complete it initially? This is such a simple concept/thing to understand and do… Same process for every single assignment. Struggle and die in the process of doing it and then looking back, realise that it’s actually not as difficult as I thought it to be.
The group project… it was the most complicated/tedious group project compared to my group projects for the other level 4000 modules. We spent SO MUCH TIME extracting and collecting the data (the liquid assets, total loans, core deposits, loan commitments, equity capital, non-performing loans, etc for 100 different banks) and less than one week before the due date of the report… we realised that we had collected the data wrongly. So we had to redo it completely. I spent two whole days glued to my computer doing the data extraction. I think my eyes nearly fell out of my head after those two days… seriously, my eyes never felt so tired before. And even after we re-did the data collection, we had to analyse the results. All within that week. Ugh. That is not something I want to go through again.
The midterm and final exam was okay. But I didn’t manage to finish the final exam paper on time. It wasn’t all that easy and there just wasn’t enough time.
Grade
A-
EC4394 Behavioral Economics
Content
Expected utility, prospect theory, loss aversion, reference-dependence, endowment effect, time preference (exponential, quasi-hyperbolic and hyperbolic discounting), self-control problems, other-regarding preference, dark side of economics incentives, behavioural games and inequity, neuroeconomics, gift exchange, behavioural economics of saving
Exams
Group Presentation 10%
Group Homework 10%
Group Project 15%
Class Participation 5%
Final Exam 60%
Personal Experience
I had a bad initial impression of this module. This module was taught by Prof Zhong Songfa and in the beginning I found it really difficult to understand his accent. I would be like ???? what did he just say ????? what word was that ?????. Yeah it was pretty bad.
But I started going for lectures prepared and that helped. Prof Zhong will usually upload the lecture slides and readings for that particular lecture a few days before the class. So I would read the required reading as well as the supplementary readings if I had the time (and trust me, the readings are freaking long and boring as fk and usually difficult to digest.) so that on the day of the class itself, it was much much easier for me to follow the prof’s lecture.
For the group presentation – each group was assigned a particular reading to present. And it was not an easy reading…. it took me 3 whole days to be able to understand 90% of the reading. Thereafter we had to do up the presentation slides and present the reading to the class. My group was rather disorganised. There wasn’t any communication at all, we didn’t meet up IRL or even online through Skype or anything. All we did was do up the slides on Google Slides and assign parts to present, and I had no idea how their scripts sounded like until the actual presentation day itself. Plus on the day of the presentation, two of our group members were saying they still didn’t understand the reading at all. All in all, it was a pretty cui presentation.
For the group project – each group had to write a research paper. On what, you ask? This was the most difficult part imo. Thinking of a topic to write about. According to the uploaded syllabus: “as behavioral economics emphasizes on the interplay between theory and experimental/empirical evidence, your project could be about either theory, experiment, or both.” And that’s it. You can literally choose any topic under the sun as long as it’s related to behavioural economics.
Again my group was rather disorganised for this. We didn’t decide on the topic until literally one week before the deadline. And then we had two freeloaders in our group of 5 who did literally nothing and contributed nothing to the report on google docs. Myself and my two other group members typed all 15 pages without a single line of contribution from the other two. And no, I am not exaggerating. You know how you can see the edit history on Google Docs, and see who has done exactly what? Those two did literally NOTHING except on the day of submission, only to key their own names onto the cover page of the report.
I’ve had bad group mates before but this was the first time I witnessed something so extreme. Literally they contributed NOTHING to the entire 15 page report. Had I been a little meaner I’d have sent in an email to the prof along with the video evidence.
Group homework – the prof assigned us all 4 assignments over the span of the semester, which can be submitted as a group. Personally I really disliked this – not everyone’s going to have the same answers and obviously you’re going to have to compromise, I can’t be insisting that everyone follow my answers. So yeah, I’d much rather have preferred individual submissions. And also that one group member of ours who did zilch for the group project, also did zilch for the group homework. Everyone else would upload their answers on whatsapp but he? Nada.
Grade
A+
LOL WTF. I was honestly shocked when I saw the results, especially considering the fact that our group presentation (and slides) had been so cui in comparison with all the other groups. I guess having a 60% final exam helped.
GEK2008 Environmental History
Content
Hunting-gathering and the agricultural revolution, columbian exchange, industrialising agriculture and slaughter, the green revolution, food security, GMOs, disease, classifying nature, imperial botany, gender and the environment, environmental movements, conservation vs preservation, history of dogs in Singapore
Exams
IVLE Forum Discussion 20%
2 Writing Assignments 40% (20% each)
Final Exam 40%
Personal Experience
Personally I found this module really interesting, and it helps that Prof Barnard is pretty entertaining and funny as well. There are no lecture slides or notes uploaded on IVLE, and since there are no webcasts you really do have to attend each lecture and take down your own notes or you most likely won’t be able to smoke your way through the final exam.
Finals was pretty easy as well. Basically, we just had to write short essays on a particular topic, which could be about anything from a person to a disease to an event. An example question would be “The Black Death OR The Irish Potato Famine” and you’d choose one of the two topics to write a short essay on.
Probably my favourite GEM module ever.
Grade
A
last day of internship
Bittersweet.
I’ve been counting down the days, just eagerly waiting for today. Now that it finally happened, I’m all WOOO I’M FREE and aw, I probably won’t see these guys again.
No more having to wake up at 7am, no more dealing with irritating people at work who don’t respond to emails and inefficient people who take forever to get something as simple as sending an invoice done, no more squeezing and being pushed and having my toes stepped on in the MRT during the peak hours. For now, anyway. That will probably be my life once I graduate, but that’s still a year away.
Only a year away.
Damn I feel old. I remember how when I was thirteen, all I wanted to be was older. Now that I’m older, I want to be young again.
I was really surprised that my colleagues went to the extent of buying me gifts and even writing cards for me, when they had already treated me to dinner at a restaurant the day prior. Made me feel kinda embarrassed to give them what I’d prepared for them, which I felt paled in comparison to theirs. I’m just lucky I had a great boss.
About a month left before the new semester begins. Not looking forward to that. I’m not looking forward to graduating, at all. I’ll definitely miss school. Though I suppose working has its advantages as well.
Now’s the period for MPE as well… one of the times my site views skyrocket as everyone is looking for module reviews. I think I’ve already decided on what modules to take for the upcoming semester, despite there hardly being any module reviews online and zero or close to zero information on IVLE (don’t you just hate it when you click on the module link on IVLE and a blank page pops up, when all you really want to know is the syllabus and assessment criteria for the module) and hopefully I’ll be able to get the modules that I want.
NUS AY2016/2017 Sem 2 Module Reviews – EC3304, EC4880, SSA2211, SSA2215, MKT1003X
EC3304: Econometrics II
Content
Time series, autoregressions, dynamic casual effect, cointegration, fixed effects regression, linear probability model, probit and logit models
Exams
Tutorial Participation 20%
Midterm 30%
Final 50%
Personal Experience
Definitely not one of my favourite modules. The lecturer can be really long-winded, he’ll take a really long time just to explain a simple concept that can be explained in a sentence or two in under a minute, but no, he’ll ramble on and on about it for like 10 freaking minutes. Which honestly doesn’t do him any favours, I mean if anything he just makes a simple concept sound so complicated! Everything was so much clearer when I read the lecture notes… and I realise, hey, this concept is actually pretty simple! It’s nowhere near as complicated as he makes it sound.
He’ll also remind you about the same concept about 30 times during the lecture. Five slides later, he’ll re-explain the concept he just taught… paraphrasing things he already said. Another five slides later, hey, he’ll repeat it again. Which, really, makes watching his webcasts really torturous because I tend to tune out, only to tune back in when he’s talking about something else and realise I missed the earlier part and have to replay the webcast. Only for him to repeat it again five slides later.
This is good, I suppose, if you learn better through repetition. It just didn’t work for me. I found his lectures unnecessarily long-winded and draggy and boring as hell.
Also, we were expected to know and use formulas that I had never before seen or been taught, at least not that I remember. In tutorials I was often stumped, like how the heck do I go from this step to that? And only after emailing the tutor did I realise that actually a formula was being used… an alien formula that was never explicitly taught and not included in the lecture notes.
Another thing that really irritated me were his tutorials. More specifically, the uploaded “solutions” to the tutorials that he puts on IVLE. Y’know, he shouldn’t even bother uploading them because they are useless as hell. His solutions only provide the final answer, and they don’t show the ten intermediate steps needed to derive the final answer. In other words, USELESS. He tells you that the answer is Z but you don’t actually know how to go from A to Z. Or H to Z, if you happen to be stumped halfway.
It’s annoying because I knew exactly what I didn’t know. But I couldn’t figure it out on my own no matter how much I stared at the lecture notes and tried working it out. And when I tried asking my tutor about it a couple times, he wasn’t a big help either. I’d email him asking how to go from Point R to Point Z, and he’d reply explaining to me how to go from Point R to Point U to Point Z.. sometimes, I figure out the rest on my own, other times I’m still clueless about how to get from Point X to Point Z.
Anyway, I sat for the final exam still unsure about certain things. Just memorised blindly.
And I really regret not presenting even once and even missing a tutorial… that 20% would have helped a lot. As it was, I ended up with a beautiful B- for this module.
Safe to say, I did not like anything about this module. Unfortunately for me it’s a core module that I’m not able to s/u.
Grade
B-
EC4880: Topics in Economics
Content
I think the syllabus varies according to the professor who teaches it. I took this module in Semester 2 under Prof Zeng. Basically each class we learned about a different model, but all the models revolved around growth and technological progress. By the start of reading week, I was able to memorise all the titles of the research papers and the authors who wrote them, lol.
Topics: R&D and Growth with Variety Expansion (Romer, 1990), R&D and Growth with Quality Improvement (Aghion-Howitt, 1992), Competition and Growth (Aghion et al, 2005), Competition, Finance and Growth (Aghion-Howitt-MF, 2005), Optimal Capital Income versus Labour Income Tax (Aghion-Akcigit-FV, 2013), Nonlinear Effects of Taxation on Growth (Jaimovich-Rebelo, 2013), Corporate Taxes, Growth and Welfare in a Schumpeterian Economy (Peretto, 2007), Subsidies in an R&D Growth Model with Elastic Labour (Zeng-Zhang, 2007), Growth in Open Economics (Grossman-Helpman, 1990)
Exams
Assignments 50%
Final 50%
Personal Experience
This is an easy module! Though, my first impression of it was that it was anything but easy. Read the first research paper by Romer (1990) before the first class and I understood like 30% of what I read… I was like, oh boy… what have I gotten myself into? All these equations! And at the end of the first 3-hour lesson, I turned to my friends and was like, “hmmm… I think I understood like 60% of everything he said? I’m so screwed” and one of them was like “Wow, 60%? I think I understood less than 50%…” LOL.
But, it turned out to be okay after all!
It turns out the emphasis isn’t actually on the equations (and trust me, there are a HELL A LOT of equations for every paper. And not simple easy ones that make sense too, but long-ass equations with a hundred different notations within them. But no worries, you don’t actually have to understand how to derive the equations or how to write them out. The important part is just to understand the main idea/theory behind each paper, and know how to explain it in words. Which is easy as long as you pay attention in class because Prof Zeng does explain most of the things clearly. For certain topics like Corporate Taxes, Growth and Welfare in a Schumpeterian economy, I had trouble understanding when I read the lecture notes on my own before class.. and I couldn’t even get through the first five pages of the research paper before I gave up because I didn’t know wtf I was reading… but after class, I had a much better understanding. Credit to the prof (:
We had 5 assignments to complete throughout the semester, so if you’re taking this with friends it’s a bonus since you can compare your answers. They were all doable. Also, the prof was REALLY REALLY lenient with his marking. He said he awarded full marks even to answers where the student went off-topic and began writing an answer that didn’t answer the question, as long as the main point was somewhere in the student’s answer. Which would have annoyed me had there been a bell curve, because hey, if that person’s simply vomitting everything out onto the paper instead of answering the question directly it shows they don’t know what the hell they’re doing so they don’t deserve the full marks. It’s like wildly firing arrows at the target and hoping one lands on the mark.
I scored full marks for a couple of the assignments, 9.5 for the rest. Everyone else scored around 8-10 as well.
But what can I say, the prof is a nice guy.
His final exam was also really easy. There are four questions, each with part (a) and (b). The first three questions were the exact same things covered in the assignments. The fourth was a more general question.
I liked this module. Preferred some topics over the rest, but overall it was fun.
Grade
A
SSA2211: The Evolution of a Global City State
Content
Lmao… I don’t even know… anyone who follows my blog and has seen some of my previous posts on this module would know, this module was just…. no, just no.
Exams
Tutorial Participation 20%
Online Forum Participation 5%
CA1 Exercise 15%
CA2 Research Essay 20%
Open-Book Final 40%
Personal Experience
This module actually started out pretty okay, I liked the first few lectures. Basically, you learn about Singapore’s history, how it evolved and changed from the 14th century, the challenges it faced and overcame.
But… towards the middle of the semester, my opinion of the module changed. The lectures started talking about things like “different aspects of the same reality” etc etc, which was all just kinda like bullshit to me. If this module had focused more on the history and facts instead of all this mumbo-jumbo I would definitely have liked it a lot more. As it was, I really didn’t get the points that the lecturer was trying to make.
And the CA1 and CA2 essays…. lol. Normally I don’t mind writing essays, it can even be kinda fun depending on the topic, but not for this module. Maybe because I didn’t even fully understand what the question wanted. So I was just bullshitting my way through the essays not knowing if what I wrote was even completely relevant or if it was what he was looking for. I didn’t really care though, because I’d already decided by then that I was going to use one of my two remaining S/Us on this mod.
I stopped attending lectures after week 8 or so. And I didn’t bother watching any of the webcasts. I only spent an hour reading through the last few lecture notes two days before the final, just to make some notes to bring in to the exam hall since it was an open book exam.
And it’s funny because when I was outside MPSH waiting to enter the exam venue, I could hear more than a few people nearby me complaining about the module, saying the exact same things I felt. “walao, I read the CA2 debrief and suggested answer he uploaded on IVLE so many times but still don’t understand sia” “heck la, don’t understand” “die la, don’t even know what this mod is about”. HAHAHAHA. Inside I was just like OH YES, I’m not the only idiot who feels this way about this module. Like really, what did I even learn?!
Didn’t help that the questions were so convoluted. Like, what even am I supposed to focus on and answer?
So… I sat for the final exam. farted some rainbows out of my butt and wrote a 1.5 page essay for each of the two questions, pretty sure I won’t be scoring a distinction for the nonsense I wrote lmao but whatev, the only thought I had in my mind was please, just give me a C so I can s/u and forget about this module. Didn’t even study (except for the 1 hour spent making some notes) because I just didn’t see the point in it.
But… despite all the negative things I have to say about this module, I could tell that the lecturer was genuinely passionate about the topics. He’ll randomly burst out singing during the lectures, so watch out for those short awesome moments.. he does have a good voice, could probably be a singer if he wanted to lmao.
also I remember him saying in the first lecture that he does occasionally google and read reviews about his module… so, if you’re reading this prof (I hope not), I’m sorry but this module just wasn’t for me.
Good prof but the content.. not so much.
Grade
B-
SSA2215: The Biophysical Environment of Singapore
Content
Part One (Prof Nawaz): Plate tectonics, geology of Singapore, weather and climate, climate change and sea level rise, topography of Singapore, slopes and soil erosion
Part Two (Prof Friess): artificial coasts of Singapore, subtidal zone: corals and seagrass, intertidal zone: mangroves, green spaces, hydrological environment of Singapore, natural resources of Singapore
Exams
Rocks & Minerals Lab Test 10%
Self-paced NUS excursion 10%
2 Map Exercises 10% each
Midterm 10% (Prof Nawaz’s material)
Final 50%
Personal Experience
Okay, I started out not liking this module and totally regretting taking it, but again, my opinion changed along the way.
First half of the semester: I didn’t really like Prof Nawaz’s lectures. He tends to speak really fast, mumbles a lot, and sometimes his pronunciation isn’t clear. So even though I paid attention during lectures, I’d still have to re-watch the webcasts at home because I didn’t manage to catch everything he said and write down whatever I felt was important. Had a Geography major friend D who took this module at the same time and in his own words, he said the lectures and the lecture notes were pretty bad, and the only reason he was able to follow and understand was because he already had prior knowledge from his previous geography modules.
But people like me who’ve never done Geography since secondary 2…. You’ll have a slight disadvantage since most of the stuff covered will be familiar to Geography majors.
On the self-paced excursion, we were given 10 questions to complete. Basically we had to walk around the campus and answer the questions about soil creep, soil erosion, etc. Oh, and the lecturer doesn’t even explain those concepts, you’re just given the paper and told to do it all on your own. Of course, not having any geography background, I was just utterly clueless LMAO. Thank god for D who already knew all these stuff from his other modules… he suggested we compare answers. Though, I ended up copying and paraphrasing most of his answers instead so it wasn’t a mutually beneficial agreement lol.
The midterm… omg, this made me so freaking annoyed. So I looked through midterms from the previous years. Noticed that half the things being tested were memory-based, like “what year did xxx?” “___ was deposited ____ years ago when the mean sea level was ___ metres”, etc. So, not only did I put in effort studying the concepts from all 6 topics, I also memorised all the years and numbers and statistics. Like how Old Alluvium was deposited 2.58 to 0.78 million years ago when the sea level fluctuated between -100m and 10m, with an average of -40m. Etc. But guess what…. the midterm ended up being so laughable. Like wtf, the questions he set.
He ended up only testing some material from the first two chapters, I don’t think he even set any questions on the last two or so topics. And it wasn’t comprehensive AT ALL. No numbers were tested. Instead he asked such simple questions that someone who didn’t study but had a geography background could answer. The actual midterm turned out to be such poop. I was so annoyed, LMAO, because I’d studied so much for nothing, and entire topics weren’t even tested. Geog majors who put in 1/10 the effort we did and did not study at all (like D) ended up doing as well for the paper.
Second half of the semester: Prof Friess took over. His lectures are a LOT better. He doesn’t mumble, and it’s easy to understand what he says… unlike for Nawaz, I don’t have to replay the same slide 10 times just to decipher what he’s saying.
The two map exercises were pretty easy. I’m not sure “map” exercise is the right term for it though. It was more like, a short test at the end of the lab session. Just pay attention to everything that is being said, write what you think is important down on the blank sheet of paper you’re given, and you’ll do fine.
Finals. You just need a good memory to do well. Besides understanding all the concepts, memorise, memorise, memorise. This time round for the final exam, numbers and years were being tested. Memorise every number/statistic in the slides. Memorise how to label all the diagrams. Memorise all the maps – there were a few, like a map of the mangrove areas in Singapore and yes, you do also have to know where all these places are located on the bare map. Or a map of the 17 reservoirs in Singapore, etc. Even little things that don’t seem important, like “demand for NEWater increased from 18,200m3 to 273,000m3 in 2003″, how big the Central Catchment Nature Reserve is (2289 hectares), Bukit Timah Nature Reserve (163 hectares), 255 coral species in Singapore with more being found, 60 species of seagrasses globally and 12 can be found in Singapore, >350 parks in Singapore, and all the years…. Pangea broke apart ~175 million years ago, Ministry of Environment created in 1972. Etc etc.
Of course, this is only if you are aiming for an A. Because only 1% of all the maps/numbers/statistics that you memorised will actually be tested (:
If you love memorising, this module is for you. If you are a Geography major…. well, obviously take this module too. I don’t know why they don’t preclude Geog majors from taking this tbh.
Overall, I liked this module. Bad initial impression of it but things picked up especially after Prof Friess took over.
Grade
A
MKT1003X: Introduction to Marketing
Content
Marketing research and intelligence, the marketing environment, consumer behaviour, segmentation, targeting and positioning, pricing, product, place, promotion, promotional tools
Exams
Subject Pool Participation 10%
Individual Assignment 10%
Group Assignment 20% (10% for written report, 10% for presentation)
Individual Class Participation 10%
Final Exam 50%
Personal Experience
Prof Ang is a really good and engaging lecturer (: Somehow her lectures seem so much shorter than 1.5 hours… it’s like, I enjoy her lectures so much that I don’t even seem to notice the time passing.
A lot of the things being taught in this module seem like common sense. The lecture slides were also… well, not very nicely organised. There is also quite a lot of content in the textbook that isn’t included in the lecture slides, but you’re expected to read and know them. Studying for this module was a lot easier after I made my own mind-maps and notes. One paper for each topic, so that I studied off a sheet of paper instead of flipping through the rather disorganised slides for each chapter.
We were randomly assigned our individual assignment. I ended up scoring an A for it, though I’m pretty sure most other people did well too. Also randomly assigned a group and a topic for our project.
I was lucky to end up with a group of people who worked hard. So many online Skype meetings and face-to-face meetings. Even then, we were still scrambling to make major changes to the report two days before the submission deadline and presentation date. LOL. We’d split the presentation into five different sections, and I was the last speaker to present our suggested recommendations. Two days before the deadline, we decided to completely change all the recommendations – that meant having to redo the slides and having to make a new script and memorise it, which kinda annoyed me because I’d already memorised and familiarised myself with the script I’d wrote. But, it all paid off… we ended up getting an A on our group project! (:
Also. Did I mention, I finished reading the Chapters 1 – 17 of the textbook in 1.5 days? Lol. Two days before the actual final exam, too.
The final exam was 100MCQs. It wasn’t that easy or straightforward, because there were quite a few questions where I wasn’t sure if the answer was this or that. Is (a) true or is (a) AND (b) true? Hmmm….
Overall this was a fun module. There were times I didn’t like this module so much, such as when we were stressing out over the group project and all, but other than that, it was good.
Grade
A
get out
After D kept asking me out and me turning him down repeatedly, I finally had to give in to his persistence and met up with him today to catch the movie Get Out. Which was pretty good! Then again… that’s what I say about 95% of the movies I watch. There was once or twice during the movie where I jumped, ugh hate that… idk, it’s just embarrassing to be sitting in the cinema and then jerking in your seat (and having the people beside you notice) cos of something happening on the screen lmao.
Met up with my sister after that to go shopping for pants. The last time we went, we couldn’t find a suitable pair cos our budget was too low. This time we upped it to $60 each and managed to get them, finally. Bought a shit ton of food and snacks before heading home.
Didn’t do any work today, I’m sure I’ll regret that tomorrow when I have to rush everything.
Also… I still haven’t secured an internship ): Almost clinched one from a bank, they called me back after the interview to ask some other things and if I would mind a pay of $1000 (honestly, I don’t care how much y’all pay me, just give me the internship please!), and during the interview itself the person said a few things that kinda implied I was already going to be getting the position. But, a day later and they haven’t called me back again even though the guy said he’d be in touch soon. I’m guessing they found someone better, ugh.
I really wanna go overseas again. I wanted to apply for summer school but, getting an internship/job for the summer break is more important so ugh. I miss Canada. Sigh. I’m just praying I can maintain my CAP this semester… I just want it to remain above 4. Definitely going to have to S/U one of my SS mods though, fucking regret taking SSA2211. Just don’t take this module.
Protected: d’s confession
finally dyed my hair!
something that I always wanted to try doing but never actually did… until today. Wish I could say I was adventurous and went for a dark red or purple colour, but nah, it’s a boring dark brown.
Nothing exciting going on in my life at the moment. Volunteered with NUS CSC earlier this Saturday, went for a few internship interviews, met my group to discuss about our project (******** hate this sht, honestly), dyed my hair, and tomorrow I’ll be going for yet another interview. Thinking of applying to summer school too.
I miss Canada. I wish I could go on student exchange again ): I wish I’d done more while I was overseas. It was the best time of my life but I do have some regrets.
Tinder!
Never thought I would ever download or use it, but here I am… actually using it LOL. Not to find a boyfriend or anything, but just to talk to new people. So out of curiosity I first downloaded it together with B while I was in the US and we were groupswiping for a bit. It’s kind of an ego boost too, if I’m being completely honest. I had guys who I found really attractive and who I would never have been brave enough to approach irl start conversations with me and ask to hangout. Sadly (in some cases), I never met up with anyone while I was there though there were a few who I would have liked to meet.
Guys in the US are also a lot more straightforward I would say. Half the time… After the first few lines of convo, it’s going to be “wanna come over and cuddle?” or “wanna have sex?” And I’ll confess, there were times I fantasised about saying yes and imagining how things would have gone from there.
Anyway. I still keep in touch with some of them through other social media like Snapchat or Fb messenger.
It’s kinda different in Singapore. I’ve only been talking to a few, but no one has ever been as straightforward. I’ve been asked out twice by two different guys but both times I kinda balked. Don’t ask why 
Lots of dumb reasons which I won’t go into at the moment.
Anyway.
Week 1 down. And I still haven’t settled my modules. Bidding this time was a mess. Secured 4 modules in Round3B and ended up with a total of 6 modules, right now I’m dropping one and appealing for a level4000 instead. I’m considering dropping a second module besides the one I’ve already dropped. Decisions, decisions… I can’t make up my mind which to drop
Also. I’ve now met up with 4 of my exchange buddies. All super nice and sweet people.
12 MORE DAYS!!
As the title says. 12 more days before I leave for my student exchange. #*$&(@#*$&)@#*$@)#$ I don’t even know how to describe what I’m feeling. I haven’t even started packing.
Also, I started a separate blog for my student exchange, so I won’t be posting on here for a while. I’m scared/nervous/excited/worried/dsflkajdlf.
ramblings
In less than 4 months, I’ll be in Canada on my student exchange. I’ve yet to settle my accommodation, modules, or anything really. I’m having REALLY mixed feelings about it. Sometimes I’m like HELL YEAH I’M GOING TO CANADA, I CAN’T WAIT!! and other times I’m like, omg can I do this?? I can’t survive on my own over there! What if I don’t fit in? What if I don’t like it there? What if I’m unable to find GOOD friends and travel buddies? What if, what if, what if???
Jeez I dunno. I worry about everything and nothing.
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