6 months or 3 months?
I received an email from Dr Ling which says this.
Dear Alice,
Have you decided to go for IBL internship or HED400 internship?
I need to confirm with them, and will request your preferred internship period.
For IBL placements within the state except your town, scholarship up to RM500 will be provided. So your fee may be only RM1000.
Thank you.
Regards,
Dr Ling
Wooookay. So I thought that Shell wants me as their intern mainly cause I said I will do 6 months of placement with them. Basically the idea they gave me was, they only like 6 month interns cause 3 months is too short. Now the lecturer is asking me about it again. Which makes me wonder again which one to choose. Choices choices choices. I kind of dislike them cause I need to deliberate very carefully.
Can someone give me any suggestions or comments at all? Anyone? Although I know that probably no one will reply a comment at all, let it just be a rhetorical question then. I just need to weigh out the pros and cons of each choice.
So you see, Industrial Based Learning (IBL) is 6 month internship. When I take this unit, I can't take any other subjects. Its a unit which I need to pay RM1500 for. Unless I can get a scholarship, which is MAYBE only, I will pay RM1000. I need to put aside money from my salary from working as an intern to pay for that fee. And I will graduate late, since I will miss one semester of studies. About final year project, it seems like...(seems only).. I can work on it from 3rd year 2nd semester with my other coursemates, which is the semester after I come back from my training. I need to complete a work journal, do a progress report with my internship supervisor, and also hand in a 2000 words report by the end of my internship period. The only thing which compensates for this, is when I pass this unit (I intend to), I will get an extra line in my graduation certificate saying that I did IBL.
If I do the 3 months HED400 industrial placement which is necessary to graduate, I don't have to pay any fee at all. I won't mess up my subject sequence, I can graduate the same time as my other coursemates - well that is when I hopefull pass all subjects without any difficulties *touch wood*. No problem also with final year project. And I don't need to send in a report or make any progress reports with my supervisor, just a work journal which has to be handed in at the end of the 3 months. No line in my graduation cert, of course.
Since I went to the IBL briefing session the other day, it seems like, it is good to do IBL, for the experience in the company. Cause 3 months is too short for the company to train interns and get to know their strengths (and also weaknesses). Also, it's like, I can have a try at working in Shell to see how it's like as an intern first, if I like the job there or not. Instead of applying there as a fresh graduate and not like it after working there for a while.
Of course I know its gonna be difficult working at Shell. =.= I know I know. It's hard. And probably I am gonna be homesick too. And 6 months is a long time away from home.
That's why it's so hard to choose!!! Why did Dr Ling ask me this again, I really thought I was confirmed to do IBL! T.T tough choice.
I don't know how to reply to his email, so I marked it as unread in my email inbox. Maybe I will talk to him in person...but I wonder if he needs a speedy reply? Like the other day when he needs 24 hours reply to the internship offer.
Seriously I don't know what to do.
p/s: Will post up about what I've been up to these two days! Just back from Rotaract Zonal Assembly which stretched the whole morning, and I badly need sleep. Woke up freakin' early (7pm is early for me mmmkay), too early for saturday and sunday which is supposed to be a holiday!
Dear Alice,
Have you decided to go for IBL internship or HED400 internship?
I need to confirm with them, and will request your preferred internship period.
For IBL placements within the state except your town, scholarship up to RM500 will be provided. So your fee may be only RM1000.
Thank you.
Regards,
Dr Ling
Wooookay. So I thought that Shell wants me as their intern mainly cause I said I will do 6 months of placement with them. Basically the idea they gave me was, they only like 6 month interns cause 3 months is too short. Now the lecturer is asking me about it again. Which makes me wonder again which one to choose. Choices choices choices. I kind of dislike them cause I need to deliberate very carefully.
Can someone give me any suggestions or comments at all? Anyone? Although I know that probably no one will reply a comment at all, let it just be a rhetorical question then. I just need to weigh out the pros and cons of each choice.
So you see, Industrial Based Learning (IBL) is 6 month internship. When I take this unit, I can't take any other subjects. Its a unit which I need to pay RM1500 for. Unless I can get a scholarship, which is MAYBE only, I will pay RM1000. I need to put aside money from my salary from working as an intern to pay for that fee. And I will graduate late, since I will miss one semester of studies. About final year project, it seems like...(seems only).. I can work on it from 3rd year 2nd semester with my other coursemates, which is the semester after I come back from my training. I need to complete a work journal, do a progress report with my internship supervisor, and also hand in a 2000 words report by the end of my internship period. The only thing which compensates for this, is when I pass this unit (I intend to), I will get an extra line in my graduation certificate saying that I did IBL.
If I do the 3 months HED400 industrial placement which is necessary to graduate, I don't have to pay any fee at all. I won't mess up my subject sequence, I can graduate the same time as my other coursemates - well that is when I hopefull pass all subjects without any difficulties *touch wood*. No problem also with final year project. And I don't need to send in a report or make any progress reports with my supervisor, just a work journal which has to be handed in at the end of the 3 months. No line in my graduation cert, of course.
Since I went to the IBL briefing session the other day, it seems like, it is good to do IBL, for the experience in the company. Cause 3 months is too short for the company to train interns and get to know their strengths (and also weaknesses). Also, it's like, I can have a try at working in Shell to see how it's like as an intern first, if I like the job there or not. Instead of applying there as a fresh graduate and not like it after working there for a while.
Of course I know its gonna be difficult working at Shell. =.= I know I know. It's hard. And probably I am gonna be homesick too. And 6 months is a long time away from home.
That's why it's so hard to choose!!! Why did Dr Ling ask me this again, I really thought I was confirmed to do IBL! T.T tough choice.
I don't know how to reply to his email, so I marked it as unread in my email inbox. Maybe I will talk to him in person...but I wonder if he needs a speedy reply? Like the other day when he needs 24 hours reply to the internship offer.
Seriously I don't know what to do.
p/s: Will post up about what I've been up to these two days! Just back from Rotaract Zonal Assembly which stretched the whole morning, and I badly need sleep. Woke up freakin' early (7pm is early for me mmmkay), too early for saturday and sunday which is supposed to be a holiday!