what am I gonna do when the best part of me was always you?
I have survived the first week of school!
I started off being really excited - excited to be sitting in a mass lecture, excited to be taking down notes, enthusiastic with the idea of readings and studying, and most importantly, thrilled to be seeing many familiar faces that I haven't seen for more than half a year. Also, I'd managed to wrangle a place back into Hall 11, and I'm determined not to be the loner I was in Year 1; I've been asking people who stay in hall to ask me out for supper or to just hang out any chance I get! First lecture of the new academic year was COM401: Media Management at 9am, and I didn't move in to hall the night before. Note to self: Do not ever again attempt to bring stuff to move in to hall on public transport in the peak period crowd. I felt like a clumsy ah ma all the way to school. I was also very apprehensive about meeting my random roomie, but she hasn't moved in yet, even until now, for which I have drawn to a conclusion that a) she's a freshie, b) she's a senior NIE student or c) I may be lucky enough to get a single deluxe for some time into the semester boo-yah!
Then I kinda hit a quarter-life crisis.
All along I felt that Communication Research was the path for me; it was straightforward, and there would be no roadkill in the creativity rat race. Alas, to my utter dismay, COM437: Audience Research Methods was strangely disappointing. I didn't feel any spark of enthusiasm while sitting in the lecture. The words "demanding" and "rigorous" only served to back me into a corner with no way out. And to top it off, I couldn't add anything else because when I was planning STARS, every other interesting module I wanted to take clashes with COM437. So I decided to go with COM437 thinking that it would be the better choice. But after that first day of school, it got me thinking that maybe I'm going into CR because I would like myself to believe that I'm interested in it to make myself seem smarter, and now I'm just finding myself so worried that this isn't the path for me, but it's kinda too late to start over and venture into, say, Broadcast because I didn't take COM225: Image & Sound Production in Year 2. Dang, I should have just spammed all the lower-level prerequisites so that more doors open to me in Year 3 and 4.
I just prayed for guidance and help from God, and I hope that my timetable and courses now is in line with what He has planned for me. I started out with 14 AUs, and now I have 21 AUs with a THREE-DAY WORK WEEK! I am so thankful because now I can work on Tuesdays and Fridays yay! I'm also shortlisted for a bursary interview that's scheduled for the 16th of September, so I'm also praying for His guiding hands on that.
I ended off my week with my very last proper event as Social Secretary. Homecoming 2010 faced its fair share of bumps, and last week, when I thought all was going well, was really the calm before the storm. There was a mad scramble in the days leading up to the event, and on the event day itself. We started off late because the set-up couldn't be completed before 7pm; wires weren't connected, there was a mad crowd at the ice cream/beer booths, and people were trickling in after 7pm. The sound wasn't up to par, and the speakers blew during the intermission, which forced us to relocate the event to the LT. BUUUUTTT I shall not focus on what went wrong, but on what went right. There were A LOT of people - apparently this was the biggest turnout for Homecoming in all the years that Homecoming was held, and for that I am especially proud of everyone in the CI Club. Even Dr Detenber came down, and said it was great how everyone had gathered and utilised the space that he had envisioned. It would have been nice to have gone out with a smooth and seamless event, but hey, what would have been the fun in that? I'm just so happy that there were 4 generations of WKSCI cohorts there, and I hope we won't get into trouble for the little less than pristine condition we left the school in. I heard there's vomit in the toilet urinal, and the smell of dried beer greeted students as they arrived for class this morning.
Haha, I love you, WKWSCI.
I started off being really excited - excited to be sitting in a mass lecture, excited to be taking down notes, enthusiastic with the idea of readings and studying, and most importantly, thrilled to be seeing many familiar faces that I haven't seen for more than half a year. Also, I'd managed to wrangle a place back into Hall 11, and I'm determined not to be the loner I was in Year 1; I've been asking people who stay in hall to ask me out for supper or to just hang out any chance I get! First lecture of the new academic year was COM401: Media Management at 9am, and I didn't move in to hall the night before. Note to self: Do not ever again attempt to bring stuff to move in to hall on public transport in the peak period crowd. I felt like a clumsy ah ma all the way to school. I was also very apprehensive about meeting my random roomie, but she hasn't moved in yet, even until now, for which I have drawn to a conclusion that a) she's a freshie, b) she's a senior NIE student or c) I may be lucky enough to get a single deluxe for some time into the semester boo-yah!
Then I kinda hit a quarter-life crisis.
All along I felt that Communication Research was the path for me; it was straightforward, and there would be no roadkill in the creativity rat race. Alas, to my utter dismay, COM437: Audience Research Methods was strangely disappointing. I didn't feel any spark of enthusiasm while sitting in the lecture. The words "demanding" and "rigorous" only served to back me into a corner with no way out. And to top it off, I couldn't add anything else because when I was planning STARS, every other interesting module I wanted to take clashes with COM437. So I decided to go with COM437 thinking that it would be the better choice. But after that first day of school, it got me thinking that maybe I'm going into CR because I would like myself to believe that I'm interested in it to make myself seem smarter, and now I'm just finding myself so worried that this isn't the path for me, but it's kinda too late to start over and venture into, say, Broadcast because I didn't take COM225: Image & Sound Production in Year 2. Dang, I should have just spammed all the lower-level prerequisites so that more doors open to me in Year 3 and 4.
I just prayed for guidance and help from God, and I hope that my timetable and courses now is in line with what He has planned for me. I started out with 14 AUs, and now I have 21 AUs with a THREE-DAY WORK WEEK! I am so thankful because now I can work on Tuesdays and Fridays yay! I'm also shortlisted for a bursary interview that's scheduled for the 16th of September, so I'm also praying for His guiding hands on that.
I ended off my week with my very last proper event as Social Secretary. Homecoming 2010 faced its fair share of bumps, and last week, when I thought all was going well, was really the calm before the storm. There was a mad scramble in the days leading up to the event, and on the event day itself. We started off late because the set-up couldn't be completed before 7pm; wires weren't connected, there was a mad crowd at the ice cream/beer booths, and people were trickling in after 7pm. The sound wasn't up to par, and the speakers blew during the intermission, which forced us to relocate the event to the LT. BUUUUTTT I shall not focus on what went wrong, but on what went right. There were A LOT of people - apparently this was the biggest turnout for Homecoming in all the years that Homecoming was held, and for that I am especially proud of everyone in the CI Club. Even Dr Detenber came down, and said it was great how everyone had gathered and utilised the space that he had envisioned. It would have been nice to have gone out with a smooth and seamless event, but hey, what would have been the fun in that? I'm just so happy that there were 4 generations of WKSCI cohorts there, and I hope we won't get into trouble for the little less than pristine condition we left the school in. I heard there's vomit in the toilet urinal, and the smell of dried beer greeted students as they arrived for class this morning.
Haha, I love you, WKWSCI.