Friday, September 28, 2007

Econs stuff~

Econs tutorial
Upon knowing that we wouldnt be getting back our scripts on the 1st tutorial of the week:
Student E: 'Cher shall we call it a day?
Just then Student C strolled in (he's never early i daresay) repeated the same question thats bogging everyone's mind, okay probably everyone else besides me as i know econs tutors wont be able to finish marking that soon
Student C: 'Cher can go already?

Tutor: We havent finish marking, i had been staying up till 12am to mark scripts everyday, including Sat & Sun for the past 3 weeks. After about 1h, will be like zombie, try to figure out what crap u all are writing
Student B (unconvinced): Faster give us back our scripts leh, know our marks then can start planning to study... blah blah all that gibberish thats out to stall time
Tutor: U can just study.. Econs will still be as bad
Ooh our dear tutor.. how encouraging~

Going thru Market Failure's essay:
Student C: 'Cher i vomitted out all 5 points for the essay
Tutor: No need to vomit everything, just answer to the question, no point overwriting, u wont have time to finish the essay
Student C: No leh, i still got time
Tutor: Then ur handwriting must be terrible
Student C: Even if i never finish, my handwriting is also terrible
(he's naturally blessed with bad writing la, cant blame him.. lol)
Student B: All my essays are so short, i have got 50min left at the end of paper
Student E: Then u must get high marks (cos tutor had been stressing not to overwrite previously so the ingenious Student B underwrite.. maybe cos he didnt study that topic?)

Students asked for a copy of specimen paper for reference:
Tutor: Specimen paper is supposed to be kept confidential, i cant give them to you. i dont know how the ones for the other subjects are being leaked out
Student C: U dont need to give us, just put it on the table la

Tutor: The format should be around the same as A level paper
Student C: How can u be sure? What if they trick us?
Tutor: No, Cambridge wont do that
Student C: You all so innocent

Student C: Why Cambridge and not other universities?
Tutor: Due to some historical reasons...
Hmm.. i didnt occur to be why Spore chose Cambridge leh, why not Oxford? Or any other prestigious universities in the world?

Towards end of lesson:
Tutor: Good students study & think, average students study & vomit everything, slack students dont study & write crap
Hmm.. Did Student B & C take the hint?

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Econs lecture
Going through essays:
Apparently the new lecturer isnt too good with using the visualiser in the lecture theatre, we were having difficulties deciphering the words as the images were unfocused, blurry and small. And to think that i was sitting in the center front part of the LT.

Lecturer flashed a page with charts & words, but nobody could make out those blurry mini mini words.. So there was some commotion as people complained to their friends.
Lecturer: When students make a lot of noise that means what is being taught is very low-level & i can just skip it right?
Students: No... Cant see..see, cannot see..see..see (many students speaking their mind at the same time, so it's kinda like echoes in a cave)
Lecturer: Next time if u all cant see, say so.
Chorus of voices: So!

I think the lecturer isnt humorous enough to catch that joke (not every econs tutor's equipped with exceptional humor like my tutor) but i loved that joke cos i really didnt think of that at that moment in time.

After she went thru the essays, i discovered that many of the points that appeared in the answer key werent present in my answers. DArn.. Somehow those details just disppeared from my brain as i was attempting the questions. Essays are goner liao lah... Kua1 Kua2 Kua3!

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Seeing what lies beyond..
Knowing it's time to move on..
Time's running out for all i know..
Slipping away silently..
Catch it, while i still can..


Post-prelim period's like a horror movie that i hadnt even paid to watch & certainly arent enjoying every minute of it

yunn. at 12:37 AM