1) Everything you learn requires laptop. 8am to 3pm! That’s 7 hours every day in school staring at Microsoft worksheets, presentation point, google and everything else online. If someday your laptop breaks down, you won’t be able to learn and there goes your daily grade! (daily grades take up 50% of your GPA, that’s a lot ok!) Even though for some modules, “sharing” is allowed but seriously, do you think anyone would want to share with you their laptop (obviously, there are a lot of private and confidential stuffs in it) the whole 7 hours? Unless your friend is very close to you, you must be kidding me if you answered my question ‘Yes’.
2) Every student has to earn 40 CE points by the end of third year. If you don’t, you will not be able to graduate and you have to repeat another year just to complete -.- And each lecture, which is like 2-3 hours long, is equivalent to only 1 damn point-.- Any other activities with more than 1 point are usually too complicated/uninteresting/too draggy etc.
3) No hotpants/mini skirts/slippers. Like what the hell? It’s a freaking polytechnic for god’s sake and it’s the only one that has that kind of rule. If I’m not wrong, they made it that way because the residents (or whoever) complained that rp students look too sloppy? If your facilitator is strict about attire, you will be sent home. If you’re caught wearing slippers by the guard (or whoever), you’re fine 50bucks -__-“ That’s what they told me during my orientation. But come on… If the students are not taking any course that requires formal clothes, it IS OKAY to wear sloppily-.-“ Its only school, after all. Let the students wear what they are comfortable with! -__-
4) There is only one damn bus that goes to woodlands from my place HOWEVER the bus stop is quite far and it's usually packed in the morning. Of course the journey’s damn long too. So I have no choice but to take the train. The ‘special’ bus that goes to RP straight from woodlands has an overwhelming queue! It’s so long that it goes all around the interchange. Even though the bus comes often, it takes approx. 25minutes till I actually reach school! (Daily classes start at 8.30, I usually reached the interchange at 7.40 to board the bus. I would reach school at 8.20 or even later-__-)
5)There is no straight bus from republic poly back to Choa chu kang. They have buses that go to woodlands interchange but the interval time is extremely long. Usually I have to wait about 20-30 min for the bus to reach, and its only just 2 stops? If you don’t want to waste your time waiting for the bus, you will have to walk back to the mrt station.Do you know how frustrating it is to walk that far distance under the hot sun after a long day in school?
6) I hate the shelters from woodlands to rp. I usually can’t stand the morning temperature when it is sunny and hot, but the shelters are so ineffectual! It does not block the sun at all. Even if it’s raining, the shelters are quite small! They are not enough to cover up the distance from mrt all the way to school. Wait, they actually cover but the longer route where students need to cross the overhead bridge not just one, BUT TWO BRIDGES (they are not connected directly! That means, going up and down the stairs then you have to walk another few metres and climb the stairs again!!!) Who does that anyway? I HATE TO SWEAT!
7) The lobby is usually packed with students. It takes roughly 10minutes for me to take the elevator to get to my class even though there are four of them! I detest waiting! If you reach at 8.20 or 8.25, and you don’t want to be late, gotta climb the stairs man! My class last semester was located at the 6th floor okay -__-
8) When you’re late for a minute or more, you won’t be able to get an A for your daily grade. if your module for the day allows you to pick your own group, and you’re unlucky, you won’t get to be in the group you want. Then you have to deal with those whom you hardly communicate with especially the china people.
9) Probably this is stereotyping, but what I have experienced and what most people I know did too; Your classmates are backstabbers. They are nice to you, try to win your heart and stuffs, but when it comes to presenting, they will purposely embarrass you. Asking questions related to the topic of the day is fine, but when they start asking too much stupid and unrelated questions, you just NEED to answer, no matter what, THAT'S ANNOYING. They would even fight back if you didn’t give good answers that satisfy them. Because in RP, the more you ask questions during your classmates’ presentations, the higher the chance you will be upgraded. The more you can’t answer them, you will probably get downgraded. Unless you're lucky, your classmates will take advantage of this.
10) Classmates can never be trusted. If they don’t like you, they will talk shits about you in their reflection journal that will be sent to the facilitator. They might even “plan” together to do that kind of mean thing to a particular person they dislike so that she/he will be downgraded. They are willing to do anything. I've seen, heard and witnessed it before.
11) Group presentations, every single day. I know union is strength, but there will always be one or two students from your group who will be very lazy to do things. If you really want a good grade for the day, you just gotta do what they are supposed to do for the group presentation. So, that’s an extra job for yourself. Suay,much? Like I said, working with people you don’t like especially those you can’t communicate with, will make the situation even worse.
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Call me a spoilt brat or anything but please don’t get me wrong- I love education. However, the environment is the biggest factor for me when it comes to studying. I really don’t think RP is my kind of school. I don't like the fact that my daily grades depend on the people i have to work with. I know its good for my future career but it takes up 50% of my GPA? HELL NO!:( I like text books. I like writing and making notes. (HARD COPY OF COURSE!!-__-) I am more focused when i do worksheets on paper than on laptop where I get distracted easily with itunes/twitter/fb/blog.
My apologies for putting you through this agony. I just had to type everything out. I feel much better now. Please God let me survive my second semester!
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