My Biggest nightmare in NUS days

Visited NUS / NTU in last week and also this week and catch up with quite afew students in both campus. Had tea / lunch with them, and some who are free even played settlers with me to enjoy fun fill and lazy afternoons.

Heard them complaining about life in new campus. Lecturers are foreign and their slang cannot understand, tutorial tutors never explain and dismiss class, LT got not enough seats so last 12 must sit on floor, Lab assistant scold people freely and loudly, leacturers not time to see students, canteen very very crowded, lab no need safety / env measures....etc etc

Here are my replies to them :

Maybe I should write a letter to thank the Dean...my graduates students suddenly realised we are so nice to them actually as soon as they enter uni.

Life is fair...last time you bully me...now people bully you lor.

Last time you are big fish in a small pond...now you are small fish in a big pond!!!

Go get close to your senior ba, they can be of great help instead of the lecturer...who knows...he may be your future spouse!!!

Don't ask me anything about sociology...I got a C for this subject...and untill now I also dunno how and why I get my C...Idun even know what I have learnt!!!

I had left uni almost 19 years already...would have thought uni life and style of delivery would have improved tremendously through these years...but I guess history just repaets itself every year. We used to tell a joke : Your professor actually didn't teach for 15 years..he teach for 1 year, but repeat it 15 times.

NUS / NTU ranked high up in the world ranking because of the reseach works done...not % of students understand the lecturer. So guys and gals, you really have to dig in deep in your brain reserves and do your own reading / understanding / summary / revising.

Maybe...that's the right way of training uni grads...no holding hands, no sweets, make sure they are independent and use own resource to solve porblems and exercise the brain more , and learn to work under stress etc etc...so that they will be ready for the real world!!!

maybe in a way, I/we have failed to prepare our students for the real industry and real uni life...
Last but not least, just would like to share with you my experience in uni...yes life can be very stressful at times...I have a recurring nightmares about the same storyline...that is tomorrow is the final exam...and I suddenly realised the I have never touch the textbooks / notes at all the night before!!! And it woill be my most dreaded suject like maths or sociology. :(

That thought alone will weak me up in the middle of the night have cold sweat all over my body.

Even when I started working in Exxon, within the 1st 5 years...I still have the same nightmare once evrey 2-3 months!!! Only after 5-6 years...this nightmare slowly depart me and never come back and haunt me...

So dun say I never warn you ah...uni is not exactly plain sailing after all...do work hard and smart. good luck !!