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 Year 2 Sem 1 Module Review
Finally, I'm back with
another module review post, it's been so long but hey, at least this time I
found the function for me to figure out which
Another sem of taking
7 modules, this time there's no slacky mod like CFG1010 (well, you can consider
GEQ as a slacky mod, but there's a lot that needs to be done as compared to
Roots & Wings). If I were to summarise year 2 sem 1, I'd say that it
was a whole new experience, from actually waking up for lectures and scribbling
like a shit load of stuff on my notes, to actually fearing of failing my core
mod cuz I thought I flunked the 30% quiz so badly.
Well, enough of all
this blabbering and move on to the real stuff, here's the module review! Labels: 2017, Biomedical Engineering, BME, Module Review, NUS, Reflection, School Life, Uni Life EnginClub 40th MC
And I'm back with the 3rd post for the night. Welllllll, this was supposed to be up at least 3 months ago, but it's been 1 semester with this new team, which means more stories to share and of course, more photos!!!! Won't be writing much about the whole process of elections again so you can check out my 39th MC post here where I talked about all the details: https://pioneer-crescentian.blogspot.sg/2016/09/enginclub-39th-mc.html#.WkKQaN-WZ3g
Many people asked me how did I end up in EnginClub again, I'm pretty sure I said that Welfare was the end of me, but somehow, I managed to convince myself that there is a need for me to stay in the club to watch all my efforts continue for at least another year. Wouldn't it be a waste to watch all your efforts go to waste at the end of the year. That's the problem with student clubs, we're appointed for 1 year and when our term ends, all our projects leave with us. Well, you can say that we are suppose to pass on the materials to our successors and help guide them to continue with the legacy, but everyone has their own ideas and it's not very nice for us to impose our own plans on others, and so there goes all the efforts of the team. Staying in EnginClub, I get to contribute to the legacy I left behind.
Going through the same process again this year (just that we had shorter preparation time), the feeling's really different considering the fact that the people who are interviewing you are you friends who worked with you for 1 year and internals was surprisingly still as scary as before, but oh wells, I somehow got myself into this position and with all the workload on my shoulders haha. (Side note, I like how Wei Yin said that my presentation for this year was more nonchalant than last year haha, I guess my style never changes.) Read more »Labels: 2017, 40th MC, ExCo?, My Life, NUS, Student Affairs, Uni Life Appreciation Dinner 2017
Another super late post (wellllllllll at least this one was in like Week 5?) Really wanted to write this after the dinner but I have been super busy with life ever since so here I am, day 361 in 2017, finally writing this for my dear 39th and welfare
It felt just like yesterday when I just stood on the stage to get my appointment letter from Prof Chua and now, here I am giving out appreciation letters to my team. I would say that it's been a tiring, but worthwhile. Working with people whom I've never worked with before, stepping out of my comfort zone, it was fun while it lasted. 1 year with 39th, we've experienced so much. Chilling in the shady EA Club room, shifting to this new office like place, finding the magical window, having our own bonding day, chalets, going crazy together. Still remember all my angst and rants, 'hatred' towards certain people due to our clashing leadership styles. All these little memories are the things I really cherish from working with everyone. So thanks a lot 39th, I think I really don't say this enough, but really thank you to each and everyone of you who watched and help me grow. Never did I expect myself to find a family, but yay, I left 39th with a papa (Kaung), mama (Yong Shun), gor gor (Hong Yan), aunties and uncles, 卖菜的auntie/mei mei (Jie Ling) and many more. Thanks for always helping with my events and the packing and tanking all my rants and complains.
Moving on to my dear welfare team. LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!! You guys have no idea how much I love y'all and how thankful I am for each and everyone of you guys. I remember when I first formed this team, there were a lot of unfamiliar faces, we saw so many people leave the team (and the countless who never turned up) and at the end of the day, I'm thankful for all of you who stayed. Will always remember our over night packing, suppers, doing weird shit in the club room (our Mario cart races transporting welfare packs), our supply chain sweat shop and of course, the fun times watching soccer after packing, doing more weird shit together. All these are the stupid memories that I will keep close to my heart for the rest of my life. I think I've said enough to you guys along the way already and I'm not gonna bore the readers with all the cheesy stuff.
Time for some reflection. Read more »Labels: 2017, 39th MC, 40th MC, ExCo?, My Life, NUS, School Life, Uni Life, Welfare EnginRAG ERAG ERAG 2.0
Finally after more than 5 months of not writing on my blog I'm finally going to complete this Summer series.
"I'm never going to join RAG again!!" That was me after RAG in Summer 2016. But oh and behold, I'm back in RAG again. Since I'm writing this after sooooooooo long, my memory is pretty fuzzy. So much was going on during that period, all the drama and work to be done. All I can say is that stress really brings out the best and worst in people. (Though I remember pretty clearly who I was pissed off with, but this is not the post for me to rant about people, so let's move on in life and just forget everything bad that has happened during RAG. Shall attempt to make this post less wordy, but I doubt that is possible considering that RAG is a 3 month affair for freshies and freaking more than 6 months affairs for seniors. From the planning stage, designing the costumes and finally putting up the entire performance on stage, it was just really really hectic but it was truly an eye opening experience. Given a choice, would I do it again? Definitely yes! So here's an attempted summary of ERAG 2017! Read more »Labels: 2017, ERAG, noRAGrets, Orientation, SamFreedomAdventures Bag of Emotions
*UPDATE (30.09.17)*
Guess there should be some closure to this blog post. It's the last day of September *cues song ~Wake me up when September ends~* It's been a tiring month, physically, mentally and emotionally. So many changes, so many new things happening. And after 1 week of "business", I think I've finally settled down and really let down this bag of emotions.
So thanks to those who have been following this post, or even just started reading this extremely long post (I suppose this is the longest of all my posts). Look out for more posts coming up soon (have so many drafts ready to be published once I'm done with midterms.
Till then, focus on the good stuff in life, because you never know when they will come to an end. 活在当下!
- Sam
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Labels: 2017, All hope is gone, My Life, Reflection, School Life ECE Camp 2017 - Metamorphosis
Raging inside as I write this post (for the second time!!) Was actually done with it but chrome decided to crash on me when chrome decided to crash on me! Cancer sia.
Well now that I'm back at this post, I hope I can remember what I was trying to express previously.
Soooooo, was supposed to write this right after the camp ended but obviously, I'm late again. Forgive me, my dear readers (I wonder how many people actually bother to keep following my blog to check for updates... Leave me a comment plox)
*Problem with goldfish memory is that I can't even remember what I wrote right before this so it's probably going to be a bit different from what I initially wrote ... :(*
Let's start this post off proper! Read more »Labels: 2017, Camping, ECEcamp, NUS, Orientation, SamFreedomAdventures, School, Uni Life BME Camp 2017 - KINGS: Return of Ea
Time for a super duper late post. BME CAMP 2017!
Yes, camp happened at the start of June and it's the start of August already. Forgive me for my horribly packed schedule this summer that I have zero time for myself, let alone to write blog posts. But rest assure this post had been planned for since the camp ended, just that I really have no time to write. Brace yourselves as this will be a really long post (gotta start it way back from the planning stage all the way till the execution)
So let's throw back all the way to May when we actually started preparing for this camp. (Yes it's really late to start planning for a camp 1 month before but well, our camp turned out fine so yay). If I were to summarise the planning stage, I'd use one word to describe it, CANCEROUS. Have to clarify this, not to say that the people involved were bad, but it was just really rushed and there wasn't any concrete plan to it. And of course, me being the kancheong spider started panicking for no good reason (or maybe there was a really good reason and that would be that camp was supposed to happen in 1 month). Really thankful for all the people who were not in main comm but decided to help us out in programs and also vetting our proposal. Much love for you guys. Planning stage eventually went alright with a few minor changes here and there and we cleared Prof. Lim in one go so yay!
Now time for camp! Labels: 2017, BMEcamp, Camping, NUS, Orientation, SamFreedomAdventures, School, Uni Life Year 1 Sem 2 Module Review
Now, I have to say, Sem 2 flew by so quickly that I didn't really pay much attention to the details of life. This is an extremely late module review update and summer is going to end soon so, YES I'm finally going to write the module review post.
Not really sure how many people actually find this useful and all but at least for me it was pretty useful when I found out more about the modules though some senior's blogs. So here we go, module review for the sem where I decided to go all cray cray with 26MCs (that's 7 modules for those who don't know)
P.S. It's been so long, I can't really remember most of my tutors and lecturers so sorry about that.
Labels: 2017, Biomedical Engineering, BME, Module Review, NUS, Reflection, School Life, Uni Life 15 hours
15 hours to the start of finals (essentially the second last part of Y1) and I should really be studying considering the amount of work that I have to catch up with. Yet I'm here, 'happily' typing away instead of mugging away for a paper that I'm pretty much not prepared for (screw GER, how can one be prepared for any paper to be exact)
Well, as the AY comes to a close, there's really a lot that I want to talk about, share with the world and really just to get things off my chest. As the year pass, I realized that my sanity is slowly dwindling away, and the emotional roller coaster really isn't helping. With all the stress from welfare events and academics (which if you were wondering aren't really going very well), I find myself breaking down way too many times (and of course, for the wrong reasons as well).
Really jealous of the people who don't have self-doubt and are just confident. As much as I want to and appear to some people, I'm still far from confident. *surprise*
Yes, your welfare director who went through externals, interacting with random people, cleared internals without shaking and presentations without dying is very afraid of public speaking and stepping out of my comfort zone. Not that I haven't been out there before, but every time I step out, something bad happens and I come back in feeling a little worse than before.
Backstory Read more »Labels: 2017, Hope?, My Life, People skills, School Life, Uni Life Little Thoughts by Sam: Friendship
Another sleepless night, so here's a short (or maybe not so short) post on friendship. (I swear I love this Little Thoughts Birdy picture)
So, today's topic, Friendship. Something thatan be so simple yet so complicated. But wells, never understood what made things so complicated in the first place.
To start things off let's start with the first sub-topic Read more »Labels: 2017, Friends, Little Thoughts by Sam, random, Reflection Throwback 2016
2016 is coming to an end soon. Can't believe it! This year, like any other year, flew past so quickly that I can barely remember what happened. (Well, having goldfish memory doesn't make things any better)
Looking back, I guess I can say that I’ve fulfilled my New Year resolution for 2016. 2016 brought me to new places, allowed me to explore and of course, I met new people along the way. I wouldn’t dare to say that 2016 was a smooth sailing year. From the disappointments to all the stress of a new environment, yet it’s been a really fulfilling year. I managed to do so many things I never thought I’d ever do. If you’re interested in what I hope from myself for the past year, click here to read the first post of 2016.
It’s been a pretty busy year and I realised I didn’t update this blog as much as I used to (and hope to) but I guess it’s enough to sum up the year for me haha.
Now for a short summary of 2016… Labels: 2016, 2017, My Life, New Year, New Year Resolutions, Throwback |
