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Break week is an asshole

I honestly don't understand it's concept. My initial understanding was that it's a week where you essentially regather your bearings on your classes, catch up and prepare to move on. WTF DO I GET 20 MORE ASSIGNMENTS WHEN I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT THE HE HAPPENED IN WEEK 1 Recess week has legitimately just started (its Saturday) and the tension of it has already badly aggravated my current physical injury that doesn't seem to cure. Plus that chronic headache I thought I'd gotten rid of on Thursday. Too.much.work.

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Completely haunted by the fact that my friends are more than halfway through a 1000 word paper due tomorrow and I've yet to start. I'll be working hard for that bloody B+ this semester again...Whats the point of trying anymore when I'm no good at it? I keep deluding myself that I can understand anything but lately I continuously come to the realisation that I'm incapable at nearly everything...

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I feel like a complete fuck up coz it's my friend's 21st birthday tomorrow and I totally had a perfect gift for her but I didn't have time to get it for her and then everyone else is depending on me coz we're giving it together since it's pricey

And once again I couldn't get something done properly I feel like an ass.

Such a shitty friend

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Forward plans

Some people plan ahead to the extent that you can only stand up and applaud for them. I mean, really, I didn't even know how to get to my lecture theatre in yr 1 and you were already meeting up with profs to discuss research projects? Magnificientsss

Ugh Sincerely, lazy A

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Quite a hassle

It's week 4 already. I mean where did all that time go seriously

I feel really constricted. It's somewhat an unbalanced situation. My modules are a bit off right now. My lvl3 cardio is round a bout the only thing that goes at a proper pace now, with actual info being taught. Problem is its so heavy laden I havent had time to focus on it. Cell Bio is some floatsam jetsam happening rn. Like the prof probably has no idea what he's teaching. He keeps jumping from one random idea to another. And ot seems like he doesn't even intend on teaching any info. It's all "analysing research papers" and shit. LIKE WHAT DO I NEED YOH FOR. But to complicate matters he assigned all of us a DRAWING ASSIGNMENT. what. And he plans on throwing down a writing assignment and a quiz by the end of the week. Which is, by the way, the day my Bioinformatics essay is due. Stupid essay. I actually forgot for a moment that I take Stats as well. I mean we havent had any tutorial and the lecturer's been MIA half the time. Bahasa is ok so far. So far...

My main issue is with sleeping. I always have trouble sleeping but ir doesnt generally bother me when I can wake up on time. But now I'm having serious problems getting up on time, I've missed 3 classes in 4 weeks. I hate this week. On top of that, fantastic people are going along being fantastic and getting awards, going on exchange etc. How do people get their shit together man

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4th week ahead

I am honestly not in the mood for tomorrow. Ugh 10-8 class. The 10am class last monday was such a bust, the lecturer just spent half the lecture talking about <i> himself </i>

"Oh that textbook publisher I met at a conference last year" "Yeah that famous inventor who was my student just wished me CNY over the phone' "Oh that nobel laureate I met for lunch last week" WE GET IT. You da bosss >_>

I really dont know what I'm gonna do for this class

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So my burnt asses of pancake souffle, followed by legit pancake souffle and hOMG BEST MATCHA ICE CREAM EVA

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Happy-go-bitter sort of week

Having tumblr on your phone is definite drawback, especially during school term. I mean I've successfully evaded it for the past 3 semesters, all I need to do is forget about everything else and concentrate on classes~~**~~

I was legitimately nearly deluded into thinking this sem was gonna be great. Ok it wasn't that bad. Kn Saturday I woke up at 7.30 to head to NUS to make matcha ice cream. And pancake souffle. And mochi. Really fun and hell that matcha ice cream was FAAAABulous. It tasted fantastic, considering we made it up from scratch! Pancake souffle had burnt asses for the first two but we managed to turn down the heat and not kill the next two hehe. Food Sci and Tech - ILY

On the other hand I nearly lost it writing an essay for Bioinformatics. I mean I've spent the entire week trying to get myself to write and only muttered up the will at 9.45pm when the essay was due at 2359. Ughh fuck you deadline. I have no idea what this module is doing or what will become of my essay, given that its freaking 20PERCENT k thx.

Anyways, 1000-2000 tomorrow so I'm completely beat. Hopefully it's not as bad tomorrow.

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Entering with (less than) a bang

So it's already been a week and I've already missed two lectures. In my defense, I was sick last week and basically my first order of business of the semester was to head to the university clinic and more or less sit there for an hour to get my meds. Sigh.

The lecture was a lame 95min intro, or so I heard. Thank goodness lame intros are always webcast~~

I had to stop with my coolio tutee as well coz she lives so faar (an hour's travelling is no joke) :( At the age of 11 she was cool and I guess I'll miss her sigh...

My modules have been less than satisfactory so far. I mean the lvl3 cardio is totally rad but my other modules not so. I've no idea what my professor is planning with Cell Bio, I mean he randomly started with Parkinson's disease and has been talking about neurotransmitters and tissue homogenisers for a while. I'm honestly confused. The stats prof has gone full laidback - chillaxing and cornily joking. He will never get our serious attention, ever, again. The Bioinformatics module is full-on computer class. Now I'm pretty damn sure I was supposed to be searching through some medical databases but I spent an hour trawling through Neanderthal taxonomy and Woolly Mammoth protein sequences so I've got that going for me. Basically I've no bloody idea what's happening for most of it.

I think I've got an essay to write. Or not. I'm not too sure.

Eh

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Here we go again!

Ah shites, here we are back to square one. Classes and scheduling and so on.

My cousin was here for 3 weeks in the Dec hols so I made merry, naturally, and worked myself out to the point where I'm now hacking away deathly coughing fits and occasional sneezing bursts. Mind you it's FUCKING HOT in here, but that's what does me in, the inumerable heat. Anyways, so I was lazily catching up with my module bidding. Which of course didnt quite work out as I wanted.

I've been assigned 2103 (Cell Bio - hate that shit) and some stats module (whyy). Along with that I had to take a bio elective on Bioinformatics (and I'm NOT looking forward to computer stuff at all). Seeing as Bahasa lvl 1 gave me my only A last sem, I wanted to take Bahasa 2 but was bloody outbid.AND LET ME RANT WHY. So nus has this weird allocation system for module bidding where we use 2 different accounts depending on whether the module comes from our own faculty or not. Languages are all placed in the Arts faculty - which makes not much sense because you don't have to be an arts student to be good at a subject DUH. But ok, fair enough. And then they give arts students 33 spots and non arts students 20. LIKE WHUT -- ratio much?? So of course arts students happily get it at 1 point because ONLY 23 SIGNED UP while non arts kids had a huge bidding war with 28 ppl and of course I get outbid WHILE BEING HIGHEST LOSER T_T

Anyways, imma go in for another round tomorrow with the 10 spots leftover from arts students, all in. Stupid nus rules that make no bloody sense.

Not rly looking forward to stats lecture with all my hacking and sneezing. Maybe I'll run off for an MC or something.

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Not planning to touch an arts module anytime soon

Soci exam once again proved that I don't have it to do it. Overnight studying and actually understanding the theories but never being able to apply them properly. And forever denegated to the "basic superficia" level.

I may hate the roteness of biology but it's definitely what I'm cut out for -- definite answers and a slightly different version of thinking.

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Exam weekend

So my bio paper ended last thursday and ive got 2 more papers left to go.

Maybe it's just me but I'm honestly ready to throw in the towel. I know I sound like a complete loser but it's really and what's with the enormous amount of content??!? 2 lectures a week and you still can't wrap it up properly?? Ugh seriously. I hate my bio mods this year. Can't even deal :(

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Exam week: numero uno

So we’re down to this. D-day. The day for which I spent an entire semester crying (in my defense in was 5min), sweating (that is 100.4% accurate) and bleeding (ok maybe not) over. EXAAAM WEEEK *plays war music with the trumpet/trombone fanfare drum roll and basically the whole shebang*

I think for a university student, the effort of an entire semester must culminate into this. Regardless of whether you’ve been sleeping off the rest of the time, the 60% on a mere 2h paper has the ability to swing your paper from a ‘Yippee-kye-aye mothafucka’ to a ‘I came in like a WREEECKING BALL’.

I think my bio paper was honestly not too bad. Like most of the questions were taken from the notes. We were deluded into believing that it would come entirely application based and decided to forego the details for the overall concept, but oh well. Ut was all the size 8 font FYIs that came out. Still, better that than not even knowing what they were asking. ONWARD HO I’ve got 2 more papuhs to slay-ay-ay!

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Bahasa test of the oral *dun dun dunnn*

Well why was I so annoyed by bahasa? Because it started off so great and ended off so…not great?

The oral exam was bad. I mean like rly bad. So we had to basically pair up and do this dialogue between 2 people that would last 2min. I decided to pair up with a friend of mine in a class (unsurprisingly a life science y2 - hail hail for us ubiquitous life science people) and we were pretty set.

Naturally, Practice run: Discuss you and your friend going to the movies as both of you want to watch different genres. (Not bad right? Nailed it!)

Actual exam: You and your brother are at home. Your aunt suddenly calls to say that she’s in town (wtf is in town woman this is a one-state nation hello) and she wants to visit. Your parents are not home. Discuss how you plan on entertaining her.

Saayyy WHAT NOW I aint takin care of no aunt visitin town of mine!?!? Sigh. Well we had like barely 10min to come up with something before being called in to the examiner’s room. So we decided to talk about buying some nasi ayam from the warung downstairs. And heading down to the botanic gardens because itu dekat di rumah (near my house). I wanted to say she likes flowers bUT WHAT R FLOWERS IN BAHASA thanx for not teaching us the important things in life. *brood* Anyways, we planned on bringing her shopping and dinner. So, high-five partner!!

As we go through our hastily prepared but frikkin awesome dialogue, it dawns on us that the examiners set it at 3min instead of 2. ONE EXTRA MINUTE TO SPEAK IN A LANGUAGE IN WHICH I CANT EVEN SAY FLOWER. great job everyone. We basically elegantly interjected our remaining speech with ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ as we not-so-elegantly attempted to rescue one another with rather irrelevant ideas and sentences. K.

With the dialogue disaster done, it was time for the individual narration portion. So somehow the examiners decided to get a kick out of it and leave our fate to chance by placing 5 cards face-down so that we’d have to randomly pick on and spontaneously talk about whatever was written on it. Being the awesome shizz that I am, I immediately ignored the picture cards and ran for the text ones.

"Pesta" = Party. Post that exam, I often had Merida (that red-haired chick from Brave) asking me If yeh had a chance to chenge yer fate, woulcha? I mean it’s definitely nothing extremely hard to talk about in English, but thats the point. In ENGLISH. So I spent the first minute out of two talking about buying food (it was honestly the most detailed topic in the textbook don’t blame me). And realised I hadn’t said a word about the supposed party. Got out a few sentences about sister’s bday and friends and hadiahs (presents) and- DING DONG yo time is up! K thanks bai yall (runs out of the room). And I went out to scare a few people waiting outside the prep room, because hey, it’s still college right? I’ve got grades to catchh

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Bahasa fest!! Costume displays were fantastic, no doubt about that. 3rd pic: Maluku dance! It’s really difficult and very rhythm coordinated dance form and yoy absolutely can’t miss a beat otherwise you’re just screwed (read: feet chopped off).

4th pic: FOOOD. isnt that always the best. Ive got prawn crackers, gado gado, this green jelly thing just OOZING with gula melaka, some corn fritters and a bowl of something else with coconut creamm. Fab night no doubt:D

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Bahasa exam (that was like eons ago)

Bahasa exam and my experimental modules were horrendouse. To explain individually:

So bahasa was just plain fantastic. I mean LOVED IT! We had a freakin mass module project for 20% of the grade and guess what I did?? Singing (hell no thats the one thing i caant mope). But it was great and we had a rad project night, with awesome costume displays of all around Indonesia, dances and FOOOD homg food was awesome shizz. The food was just too tasty and I unabashadly ate like a pig (with all my other pig friends ahem). Still.

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Well second year started about 2 weeks ago and its same old same old but somewhat different. At least I got my friends with me this time around and it's pretty fun to suffer together. The euphoria of collective sighing/moaning/ranting/occasional swearing from people you've never heard swear in the past 19 years has such a strong bond. My modules are obviously the usual 2 life science mods, experimental module (more on that later ) and two arts mods I took. Our year 2 life science mods started off ok but last week's metabolism lecture was horrendous. I'm pretty sure the bulk of my understanding was that kinases and phosphatases should have something to do with phosphates. I think. Bahasa Indonesia is AWEESOMEE I mean its truckloads of fun to learn the dialogues and I think I'm catching on (pretty sure advantage of a dad who spontaneously knows how to speak bahasa is an advantage). Soci lecture is k for the mo, though I'm kinda bored with watching so many Kpop videos in lect. Eh well. I'm curious about going on exchange next year but why're the applications due this Sunday crap damn.