On a heavier note, I'm in two committees with only one confirmed role.
A brief summary of my year is due here so here goes:
A new course, a new school and a whole new studying method. ECH gave me a whole new look of studying and staying up to complete assignment is a norm. Oh and the fashion sense here in NP, phew, ridiculously fashionable. English is very important, so is grammar (even though we learn about it too in one of the module as another term - Syntax). If your English is weak, your assignment would most probably get a max B+ and nothing else because the grammar involved in unbearable. I guess that's what happened to me.
Certain courses requires you to change classmates every semester, but I'm thankful that I'm staying with my current classmates for another 2 more years to come. I really don't want to have to do a love/hate relationship. An example: we stay together as one for about 4 months and then we break up and imagine repeating that for another 5 more times! Man that's a nightmare for me and that is another reason why I'm thankful for this course I'm in.
Since this is poly, projects are another norms we see in school and everyone would stay back in school til 9 - 10pm just to finish the basic backbone of the project. Tough work huh. But also, these projects can be fun, if everyone participates equally. This has trained me in being responsible and also tolerant through a few unfortunate events. Even though the information that is in my brain now are totally new knowledge, they were really fun to collect through the different fun process (being in a Humanities & Social Science faculty). Assignments came as a shock to me because what I was used to, is now multiplied 4 times or lesser.
300 x 4 = 1200 words!!!
Yeap, that's the amount I had done in my first year of academics. But that's not the most too. Some lecturers are a dearie, while some, are a devil in disguise. Don't get me wrong, but your class advisors are always the best and kindest lecturers (ahem, like mine).
Now CCAs, it's not compulsory but it's kinda good to have one in poly. It looks good on your university application you know. There's no limit as to how many CCAs you want to be in, but just let me tell you this: more than one committee role is no joke so think through. I'm only in my 2nd week of being an official exco member for both my CCAs and one is of heavy work load because it's attendance based while the other is free and easy until there is an event because, well, it's event based. I've completed a few forms, sent an email and phew I'm about to die from fear. I still got a year to go for both and hopefully, it'll go well. So join as many clubs as you want ONLY if you think you can handle all the commitments.
Ah yes, not forgetting food because I'm a glutton and food is the 3rd reason what I'd live for. I don't know about NYP, TP & SP's foodcourt food but I'm pretty satisfied with RP & NP's especially. The cereal fried rice in NP is a must try. RP is just CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP. I mean all food in polys are affordable but they are equally pricey if not compared to outside food but the quality is still there. I have a few favourite food stalls already in NP and I see my weight going up up up! But too bad, there's a hill for me to climb everyday to lessons so half of my calories still go away. The other half? Well let's just say I need it to keep me warm because the lecture halls are COLD.
Well I guess this is about it and til the next time.
xoxo.