Memories...
Sunday, March 02, 2008
ON SIMI MID TERM BREAK???!!!!
Ok, as I speak, it is Sundae night, and the end of the mid term break is here.
Looking back, it has been 1 hell of a week ahahhah. I m glad that i thoroughly tried to enjoy myself in the earlier days. From Tuesday onwards, I have been going to school everyday for project meetings/ research/ zapping.
Finally finished my 2nd ISM deadline. But I still have 1 major essay to submit this week, plus Animal Behaviour presentation on Thurs.
Feeling really jaded from academic work, and in a way, it only makes me want to graduate faster.
I read a Newpaper article today written by this journalist, who sympathizes with his primary school child, who he feels has been caught in the unrelenting academic rat race since young. The journalist then looks back and wonder how he has survived himself. He also raised the point whether students nowadays are facing so much academic overload such that they are missing out on a whole lot of other lessons, interests, passions, & skills to be nurtured in life.
Now that I have nearly come to the end of almost 18 years of studying & being a student, I look back myself and also marveled at how I survived. Now's not the time for me to give up though, being so close to finally graduating with 2nd Upper Hons. The next 9 weeks will be the finishing lap for me, and I really want to end off this final phase of my life with a bang.
I almost felt sorry for many of my juniors who have to go thru what I did, esp those intending to do Honours. Many I m sure will get quite a rude awakening when the realities of Hons year workload hit them. But then again, I wouldnt say it has been any much easier from yr1-3, esp from a comparative perspective. Sometimes it depends on the type of module one takes as well.
Going to map out my entire study schedule for every single day for the next 9 weeks. Oh yes, this was what I did last sem as well.
A painful & excruciating process to the finishing line indeed.
No wonder there is always the common saying that when one graduates, nobody ever remembers the academic stuff u learnt. Rather, it is the friendships, relationships, co-circular achievements & memories that one brings with him close to the heart, as he throws the mortar hat into the air.
