Friday, October 28, 2005
Crazy
Ok, you guys can breathe easy - I'm not going to write one of my infamous long-winded essays on social issues this time round. It's simply not possible to do so in my sleep-deprived, overworked, hyperstressed, and mildly hypoglycaemic and dehydrated state. I was whacking Thermodynamics for the whole of last night. Rankine Cycle, Brayton Cycle, Otto Cycle, Diesel Cycle... these fellas sure know how to make my head go round in cycles.
So far I've been making progress with Operation Intimidation Game, but the progress isn't as much as what I would have liked. It's not easy trying to conduct a full-blown revision when they haven't even finished teaching some of the modules. Sure, they've already completed Sensors and MOM, but as far as I know, all the other modules still have another lecture or two to go. How on earth do I start revising when I can't even keep up with what they're teaching?
At least the labs are finally over. My final lab on Flow and Energy Loss was an absolute killer. The experiment itself was straightforward - I left the lab after just 1 hr 45 minutes. The lab report, though, was a different story altogether. Unfortunately, it was an informal report. Believe me, 'informal' is a misnomer. Where I had one week to complete formal reports, I have to hand in informal reports the next day. And the length of informal reports isn't that much different from that of a formal report. It's just fewer discussion questions to do, that's all.
So I ended up doing the informal report from 7.30pm in the evening till 2am in the morning. Of course, it wasn't non-stop... I don't have the ability to do such a thing. Still, I hardly took any breaks within those 6 hours. By the time I finished printing out the final draft, I was burnt out. I couldn't even be bothered to attend the Thermodynamics tutorial I had the following morning - I was too busy trying to make up for lost sleep.
Heck, I missed my Fluid Mechanics tutorial today just to make up for more lost sleep. I know that it's not exactly the best conduct an undergraduate can have, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Sometimes the rules have to be bent just to get the job done.
Friday night is supposed to be my Slacker's Night, but I don't think that's going to be the case tonight. I'm far behind in my revision, and with just three weeks to go, I can't spare the luxury of a Slackers' Night. The most I can do is to take it easy tonight and quit revising after a couple of hours or so. Otherwise I'm going to go crazy with all this revision.
What can I say? It takes a crazy person to survive NUS Faculty of Engineering.
So far I've been making progress with Operation Intimidation Game, but the progress isn't as much as what I would have liked. It's not easy trying to conduct a full-blown revision when they haven't even finished teaching some of the modules. Sure, they've already completed Sensors and MOM, but as far as I know, all the other modules still have another lecture or two to go. How on earth do I start revising when I can't even keep up with what they're teaching?
At least the labs are finally over. My final lab on Flow and Energy Loss was an absolute killer. The experiment itself was straightforward - I left the lab after just 1 hr 45 minutes. The lab report, though, was a different story altogether. Unfortunately, it was an informal report. Believe me, 'informal' is a misnomer. Where I had one week to complete formal reports, I have to hand in informal reports the next day. And the length of informal reports isn't that much different from that of a formal report. It's just fewer discussion questions to do, that's all.
So I ended up doing the informal report from 7.30pm in the evening till 2am in the morning. Of course, it wasn't non-stop... I don't have the ability to do such a thing. Still, I hardly took any breaks within those 6 hours. By the time I finished printing out the final draft, I was burnt out. I couldn't even be bothered to attend the Thermodynamics tutorial I had the following morning - I was too busy trying to make up for lost sleep.
Heck, I missed my Fluid Mechanics tutorial today just to make up for more lost sleep. I know that it's not exactly the best conduct an undergraduate can have, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Sometimes the rules have to be bent just to get the job done.
Friday night is supposed to be my Slacker's Night, but I don't think that's going to be the case tonight. I'm far behind in my revision, and with just three weeks to go, I can't spare the luxury of a Slackers' Night. The most I can do is to take it easy tonight and quit revising after a couple of hours or so. Otherwise I'm going to go crazy with all this revision.
What can I say? It takes a crazy person to survive NUS Faculty of Engineering.
Posted by Spider-Fudge at 01:32 pm
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