Something about School:
At NUS, module (class) size is very small. There are many classes like my mobile app class, there are only 20+ students. In my other classes, there are only about 150 people. One thing surprised me is there’s only one (2 hours) lecture each week. During lecture, there are many empty seats and it is pretty cold inside due to the air conditoner. Professor usually use PowerPoint with many pictures. There’s not much difference between here and the US. Besides lecture, each class contains tutorial, which is like session discussion, and some classes have lab. During tutorial, the TA would divide students into small groups (around four people in a group). Each group would present the pre-tutorial exercieses and discuss about it. For lab, the attendance is not required, but require students to show the lab exerciese to the TA to check out. This semester, I enrolled five modules, and I think I need a lot of self practice and learning in order to get good a mark (grade).
Some thoughts:
The past three week of school, I was trying to get used to the class, and do homework every night excepted Friday and Saturday, I usually played The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow and played ping pong. But I was sleeping very late like 1:30am and wake up at 8am. I found out I lost a lot of time and did things very slow. But finally, I made a time table for myself and hope it would help. Recently, I joined in the CVCF, a christian fellowship. People are nice there, and I went to the Singapore sky bridge, the Botanic Gardens and eat durian with them in the One Day Singapore trip.
