books and friends should be few but good
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 (10:54 PM)
how true is this idiom? probably very true. but that is not why i don't have that many friends in school. when the system works in such a way that it is almost impossible to find a same person in 2 different modules in the same tutorial slot as you, i don't think i have many choices. i sure do recognise a number of faces and there are exchanges of hi-byes when i see them but it's difficult to make friends in modules where there are no projects. come to think of it, the more-than-hi-bye friends i have in nus are mostly my project group members, period.
but thinking further, i have this belief that most people are in the exact same situation, so why should i feel down? so what if i know the whole nus population and all i do with them is exchanging hi-byes.
today was the paper i dreaded the most. history. but also the module i made the most number of friends. reason? the final project is a tutorial group effort. 26 people doing one presentation. we were divided into 2 groups one dealing with film and the other with court martial though. despite that, more than 10 people in one group is probably the biggest project i've ever dealt with. i'm thankful it's over and prof farrell is right. there's no point making this an open book exam because the questions he posted, seriously doesn't need the open book. the first time in history that a history module i took does not require the regurgitating of facts. nus is indeed developing intellectuals over intelligentsia. though i will not do well in this 'intellectual module', i will definitely fail if it were an 'intelligentsia module' as proven in my records.
last paper will be on friday. 20mcq, open book. but i'm not that confident because philosophy is a weird module. also pessimistic, if i were to use one word to describe it. i haven't done the berlin reading and i do not intend to do so because i have no access to it. it's not printed in the readings and the online reading is locked with a password that nobody knows. how great is that?
and the best part of this idiom? books should be few but good. which is why i don't do my readings. i don't think they are good books. =)