Schwork Frustrations

Hehe. Yup. Just as I've expected when I started this thing last April/May. M.I.A for quite some time now, haven't I? Well, I did say I'll try my hardest to keep this blog alive. Here's another thing though, folks. If you've been super duper awesome and actually read my first post, I did mention that I used to run a personal blog such as this one back when I was in high school and one of the reason I shut it down was because there was nothing interesting in my life to blog about. Well, guess what? Now, I have SO MANY things happening that I can barely keep up! There was a week in early November where I was so busy that I barely had any sleep! That's about where I stopped blogging here too because when I tell ya I have no time, I ain't joking. Boy, was that week insane.

So, anyways, HAPPY NEW YEAR!  Yup, that's another year gone and two out of six semesters done for me in Nilai. So far, I'm having a pretty good time. I suppose I should fill you all in on what I was "so busy" about, eh? But it's just going to be another long post and I don't want you guys to feel so dreaded reading all these and at the same time, I have no idea how to shorten everything. But anyways, I've decided that they're




not all that important anymore. Just several projects and a very very very stupid me who can't say "NO".

Last semester was a short one and frankly, I kinda hate it. It's not all that short if you think about it. Usual long semesters are about 3-4 months long while the short semesters are only 2-3 months long. Which means that everything in the syllabus are compacted. This is why in short semesters, people only take up to 2 subjects which is equivalent to 4 subjects in the long semester (the time and schedules are now doubled). That's people and then you have me. I took 3 subjects last semester (equals 6 subjects in the long semester). So, yeah, my class schedule was basically PACKED last sem with Mondays off. I know I have a 3 days weekend but with all the extra curriculars, events, programs, etc. I still have busy weeks after busy weeks. As for my results, well, I'm actually pretty proud of myself. Even with all the extra stuff, I could somehow magically  juggle everything. The three subjects I took last semester was Introduction to Microeconomics, College Algebra and an MPW: Pendidikan Moral.

I know you'll probably roll your eyes at me after reading what I'm about to write but I'm just going to go ahead and make you do just that anyway. Hehe. Like my first semester, it's another straight A's. Also like my last semester, it's another almost straight A+. URGH. In my first semester, Chemistry was my only Maths/Science subject and that was exactly what caused me my 4.0 GPA! A-. It's not that bad, I know. But semester 2? Yeah, you guessed it, an A- for my Algebra! And you know what annoyed me even more? I got an A for my Moral (HAH SUCK IT YOU MEAN MORAL TEACHERS) BUT Moral is NOT calculated for my CGPA and my Algebra IS! Which means, if I were to get an A for my Algebra, and and A- for my Moral, I would have scored a PERFECT 4.0 last semester! ARRGGHHH.

Ah, well, fine then.

As for semester 3. I've just registered for my subjects this week and as of now, here are my subjects:

Philosophy
Sociology
Introductory Biology
Introduction to Golf

Yup, you read it right. GOLF! That's one of the wonderful (and sometimes not so wonderful) thing about the American Degree Program. You get to do everything: Language, Social Sciences, Humanities, Fine Arts, Maths, Sciences, and Sports. I've decided to just do golf in Malaysia because it's cheaper than to learn outside (equipment and stuff like that will be provided). It's not the kind of sports that requires me to run around, sweat, swear and feel like dying or chase any kind of ball. Everyone who knows me well knows that my eye-hand-legs coordination is just awful. Eugh. Hell no. Golf don't sound too bad. I think. I hope it's not. Heh.

I also mentioned that these are my subjects only as of now because there is a major classes clash between Philosophy and Sociology. Since it's these are both university subject, meaning elective subjects that ALL degree students have to take in order to graduate, it'll be almost impossible for the lecturers to change the time slots because well, everyone have different programs and different schedules. So, I'll have to drop one and only take it when it is offered again in another semester. Right now, I'm planning to drop Philosophy because a) I love the teacher who will be teaching Sociology, Miss Lena. She taught me American History in semester 1. One of my fav lecturer. Hehe. and b) the lecturer for Philosophy had just taken the subject over from his predecessor, which means he'll probably fumble about and is still not very used to teaching the subject.

So, yeah. Dropping one of those subjects also means I'll have to take up another subject that has no clashes or if there are clashes, it can be rearranged to another day.

That's the academic part of this coming semester, I guess. Classes will be starting again on Tuesday next week because Monday is a public holiday for Negeri Sembilan (The Sultan's birthday or something.lol)