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Today I didn't have class but I went to school for a "tea with the Dean" kind of thing. It was a small group, just 7 people bothered to go. Which was sad because the dean mentioned he had to step out of a still ongoing meeting just to do this and also because it seems the grad students aren't very social/don't give a shit.
However, being able to sit and ask a lot of questions directly to the dean was good because I was able to clarify some stuff that's been hanging over my head for a while, mainly about research opportunities. I did make at least one friend, so we shall see how that goes. My biggest gripe at the moment is the unsocial nature of the grad students somewhat. For an international school and one who consistently makes the top of the lists of school with the youngest average aged population, a lot of my classmates are timid and solitary. It also makes group work intensely difficult to coordinate. Squeezing opinions out of them is even worse. I hope this is not going to be the trend in my experience. I envy my friends in other programs who say that they're almost tired of the level of socializing they do on top of their studies.
I also with D, who is a friend I made who is doing an exchange at the Arts College. We've been speaking a lot about our art, what we would like to pursue, our philosophies and such like today over two gigantic pizzas. We also like Steven Universe and a lot of other things, so we talk about that.
Today as a whole was undoubtedly a cranky one. I couldn't express my unsettled feelings about life in Singapore to F, even after solid conversations with J last night over beers. I am going to try and blog about this regularly, even just to get my thoughts straight. I was also able to read through a bunch of fanfic WIPs and I have a goal to finish one before the end of this month. It's going to be probably something out of left field, either my HP Mauraders AU or the ParaNorman one. But the goal is to finish something.
It is funny what one misses when one is not there. There are a lot of things going on in Manila that is giving me major FOMO but this is the track I picked and so I have to make the best of that too.
However, being able to sit and ask a lot of questions directly to the dean was good because I was able to clarify some stuff that's been hanging over my head for a while, mainly about research opportunities. I did make at least one friend, so we shall see how that goes. My biggest gripe at the moment is the unsocial nature of the grad students somewhat. For an international school and one who consistently makes the top of the lists of school with the youngest average aged population, a lot of my classmates are timid and solitary. It also makes group work intensely difficult to coordinate. Squeezing opinions out of them is even worse. I hope this is not going to be the trend in my experience. I envy my friends in other programs who say that they're almost tired of the level of socializing they do on top of their studies.
I also with D, who is a friend I made who is doing an exchange at the Arts College. We've been speaking a lot about our art, what we would like to pursue, our philosophies and such like today over two gigantic pizzas. We also like Steven Universe and a lot of other things, so we talk about that.
Today as a whole was undoubtedly a cranky one. I couldn't express my unsettled feelings about life in Singapore to F, even after solid conversations with J last night over beers. I am going to try and blog about this regularly, even just to get my thoughts straight. I was also able to read through a bunch of fanfic WIPs and I have a goal to finish one before the end of this month. It's going to be probably something out of left field, either my HP Mauraders AU or the ParaNorman one. But the goal is to finish something.
It is funny what one misses when one is not there. There are a lot of things going on in Manila that is giving me major FOMO but this is the track I picked and so I have to make the best of that too.