The walkway to and fro SoC
Walked it so many times...my university days started rather badly.
i left a relationship before i matriculated into computing, that was in mid 2006. It was quite a silent blow, because nothing happened initially. The confidence i carried over from poly was misplaced - my studies went southward with pressure from work and the loss of a person that was close to me. Work weren't busy, but i dwelled in it, to forget what i went through. With this mis-focus, everything nearly crumbled down just before my 1st exam. Only a few will know what really happened.
over the next 4 semesters it was really discouraging to pull my points up from the bottom. Still, i have tried and tried. After the dismal first semester (plus academic warning from Vice Dean), i started to immerse myself in undergraduate life, with some tough modules such as CS3214 and many interesting non CS modules, SSB2216 HRM, etc. Deadlines come and go, my friends and i felt we were chasing them all the time. What a stark difference from poly where deadlines can be comfortably met. This semester, i had only 4 days to study before exams started.
the point is no longer at pit bottom, but i wished i have started off in a better state.
in a flash of an eye (not that fast, but it felt so), 2.5 years have passed. In this last semester, i didn't want to leave. Things progressed too quickly; i felt i spent too little time in campus. There wasn't much involvement because of my work outside and i opted out of hostel stays. With my poor results, i didn't get to go for overseas exchange too. But what has to end has to end, and i really hope my results can make it.
i'll leave the goodbye out until 23rd comes. Good luck to all peeps who filed for graduation.
i left a relationship before i matriculated into computing, that was in mid 2006. It was quite a silent blow, because nothing happened initially. The confidence i carried over from poly was misplaced - my studies went southward with pressure from work and the loss of a person that was close to me. Work weren't busy, but i dwelled in it, to forget what i went through. With this mis-focus, everything nearly crumbled down just before my 1st exam. Only a few will know what really happened.
over the next 4 semesters it was really discouraging to pull my points up from the bottom. Still, i have tried and tried. After the dismal first semester (plus academic warning from Vice Dean), i started to immerse myself in undergraduate life, with some tough modules such as CS3214 and many interesting non CS modules, SSB2216 HRM, etc. Deadlines come and go, my friends and i felt we were chasing them all the time. What a stark difference from poly where deadlines can be comfortably met. This semester, i had only 4 days to study before exams started.
the point is no longer at pit bottom, but i wished i have started off in a better state.
in a flash of an eye (not that fast, but it felt so), 2.5 years have passed. In this last semester, i didn't want to leave. Things progressed too quickly; i felt i spent too little time in campus. There wasn't much involvement because of my work outside and i opted out of hostel stays. With my poor results, i didn't get to go for overseas exchange too. But what has to end has to end, and i really hope my results can make it.
i'll leave the goodbye out until 23rd comes. Good luck to all peeps who filed for graduation.
1 comment:
dude, what you wrote is actually what i felt.. time passed too fast, the current economy situation and not experiencing everything around us.
maybe i should blog about it too..
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