School Life
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
I'm so totally not enjoying this sequence's school. I especially despise the labs. Now that I've experienced the lab here, I miss my labs in NUS. Life is soooo much easier there.Like I said earlier, I'm taking a project based module and 1 core this sequence. I'm not worried about the project coz with my teammates, I should be able to pass. But the thing with a project is, it consists of discussions, which of course will be in French. Listening to a lecturer explaining a module in French is already so hard, but it's nothing compared to trying to understand the discussions of my teammates. Teachers tend to speak slower and more properly but fellow classmates won't bother. They speak so fast and sometimes with slangs, too. Haizz.... And I hate my project, it's so mathematical, with so many system equations, rules, derivations, and dunno what others. Even in English they are hard to comprehend, let alone in French. Sometimes I wonder y I chose EE... Haiz...
The other module is ok except for the labs. The labs are much more painful than the project. Basically it's the same problem, with the language and discussions. The labs are very much different from those in NUS. If I said I don't like labs in NUS last time, forgive me, I change my mind now. At least in NUS we are always told what to do at the beginning of the sessions, it's 3 hours only and the manuals give us a comprehensible step by step instructions. Here, the lab TA won't help except for emergencies, it's 5 freaking hours straight and the manuals are like shit. They are super thick, almost like a textbook, but it's for 2 sessions (and we have altogether 4 labs) with a chunk of explanations. But the problem is, they don't really tell us what to do in a step by step kind of way. So we have to figure out the steps ourselves. Haiz.... And 5 hours is just way too long. Seriously!
OK, enough complaints. Now the good news: I passed both my modules last sequence. Ironically (though I don't mind), my module in French scores higher than the in-English one. Don't ask me how. I have absolutely no idea how. Hahaha.... But, really thank God I manage to pass, with a satisfying mark. Now only left 2 more!! I have to start studying a bit next week, I think. Have been neglecting the modules so far. It's a good thing I only stay here for 1 semester, I become lazier with time.
Last week there was a short 4 days holiday over the weekend. The Supelec people went to Belgium and Holland but I stayed here coz I can't go outside France. I'm glad I didn't go with the guys, though. They told me what they see in Holland and the places they went to over there. It's like the Holland version of Geylang, only at a much more advanced level and of course, bigger scale. Hahaha... Went to Paris with the newcomer Indonesian guy instead. We went to try a lot of French food. He so loves to eat and the trip was full of food trying. We also went to La Defense then walked from there all the way to Champs-Elysee. Wanted to have dinner and try another French dish also but we didn't have time coz we wanted to catch the last bus which is at 9pm. So, we'll postpone the plan to this week, instead.
