How time flies. My Sydney trip marks my first summer holiday, the end of my first year in University, and the beginning of my second year. and WHAM! I'm in the midst of study week. This sem is really too impossibly fast to believe!
Plenty has happened since then, but the looming one is just days away: my final exams.
As usual, brings back memories to exactly one year ago, when I was studying for my very first exam in University. In the first semesters, cores are assigned, so there isn't really much of a choice. But after a year here, your options are now more open. I'm happy to say I am only down to one core for this year, which I will be clearing in two weeks time! so that leaves the rest of the modules open for options. What's most important I feel, is the interest in the module.
After a year of lost orientation in which tracks to choose, it doesn't boil down to which module allows you to score, but whether you've taken something you really have interest in. I have chosen to go into the broadcast track, although personally I feel its something I cannot score in, but its the satisfaction of completing the project that gives you this extraordinary feeling that I cannot achieve from seeing an A on my degree audit.
This is especially the case for my third and final project in COM225 module, which is the first project that I've been so dedicated and determined, not to mention involved in the entire process from pre to post production. Having the most awesome groupmates with just the right dynamics was definitely the key. A was a very good director to work with, his precision and perfection for the composition and framing truly did justice to our idea, not to mention his chirpy self that really brought about positive energy to all our shoots. C was detailed in every aspect, and was always pushing us on and encouraging us! K was the start of a new friendship, since she was on exchange, and if not for this project, I don't think I would ever have the opportunity to get to know her.
I remember back to that evening at the benches, when we all proposed our individual ideas, and just like that, our random ideas sparked off into a true beauty, an idea that got all of us so excited to work on! Even though our shoot dragged on for 3 sleepless nights, the adrenaline rush from being able to see the final product just tided me through. It is an amazing experience, something which I never thought I'll ever experience this semester .truly the most memorable production to work on thus far.
Apart from that, I have finally decided to minor in Psychology. Even though i scored a B for my psych module last semester, which is truly enough to put anyone off from taking any future psych modules, I have decided to press on. Perhaps it is just my fascination with the whole subject itself, but being an arts student, with the mathematics and biology, we just don't see eye to eye, thus I know I will not be able to score in this. Nevertheless, it is something I would have gone into had I not gotten a place in WKW, so this is the only chance that I will ever have to study something of interest, and imma grab good hold of it!
The last thought that I have before this semester ends, is my final decision to take up a language module. Initially for my very first semester, my GPA shocked everyone and myself even, but last semester it took a really steep dip, and I am out of the playing field for high GPA score, so my priorities have switched to taking what I have interest in, and I had shunned the idea of language, because I know it is not my thing. Been there, tried that before, it just didn't work with me. But at least taking a module in school means I don't have to pay $99 to learn it at some community centre, and probably with the pressure of it being a school curriculum, i might even learn it better! So thanks to advice from K, I AM GOING TO TAKE LEVEL 1 SPANISH!
hola español!
Next sem also marks the temporary goodbye from NTU, and into the section of my uni life which I have been looking forward to the most- EXCHANGE!!!
Flying off to Houston on the 6th Jan 2012, and starting school at Texas Christian University on 15th Jan 2012! I hope the food's good, people are nice, lessons are fun and traveling experiences are aplenty, and I really really do hope i do not overspend before I return in June.
The countdown to finals are exactly 6 days away, and my last paper is on the 29th! I hope time flies by, and before I know it, I will be busy planning for my exchange trips, getting Christmas presents, and accomplishing my after-exams to-do list which I have been keeping track of since a month ago before I leave SG!
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