Bohemia Bunny

Schooling Strangeness

March 6th, 2007 by lynn under School Life

The longer I stay in NUS, the weirder it seems to get.

When I was a naive young freshman, you could have told me anything and I’d have happily nodded and agreed. That’s why we make such good psychology research subjects, we’re still not wise enough to the experimental designs.

But as I ventured out into the other faculties, I discovered that NUS can be very strange indeed. Besides the interesting modules one can take beneath the auspices of the stuffy Science faculty (Strings Theory, anyone?), even the exams can be a little unorthodox. I still say the prize goes to that 100-question fill-in-the-blanks final exam I took for Living With Chemistry. Nothing wrong with filling in the blanks, but for a final exam… it totally threw me for a curve.

And in between, the students spice up campus life as well. There’s the infamous lecture PowerPoint proposal by a hapless lovestruck chap. I can’t think of anything else that comes close to rivaling that for sheer gossip factor.

And today, my 9am-12pm class was shrunk to a 10am-11am class. For me, anyway. We were having an in-class quiz, which started later than usual to accommodate sleeping in, and I finished within the hour. So here I am, enjoying my already very-short day.

Yup, the longer you spend in here, the funnier and less routine life gets. In fact, I foresee that in my final year, I shall be spending practically no time at all in school. Fancy that!