Debate?

On Thursday we had our second General Psychology class. I'm a bit disappointed that I couldn't get my hands on a copy of our text book. You see, it's really funny. When our other lecturers asked us to buy text books most of my classmates don’t even bother n instead borrowed them from the library but for psychology only after the first class and they had bought it! Social Science students, of course all of us were interested in psychology than chemistry or computers. But unfortunately I was too late and the book was sold out at Inti Book Centre (IBC). I got to wait till Monday. Anyway, that day's psychology class was just an 'eh.'. Not so bad, not so good. There are some things that I do not agree with Dr. Fulton. I felt like going in a debate with him about the day's topic but I know it won’t end in the course of two hours. He made it sound like being considerate in a society is a bad thing for eastern civilization. Or maybe I came to class with my head set that he'd be biased over the western civilization. I don’t know. Anyhow, he mentioned something about where in the West they have open debates but in the East open debate is not encouraged. There's some truth to that...

That night however, Sofiya, Diana, and I had a little debate of our own in our room. (Oh, before that earlier we went to Alamanda in Putrajaya. We had to evacuate the building for three hours so it seem reasonable... :p) If you can remember, we're all social science students so we unconsciously got into quite a heat-up argument. I won’t go deep into it as it's quite a sensitive issue. I have to give props though to Diana for making me think. I won’t say I agree with her opinions, but at least it makes me think and that's much more beautiful than taking a debate personally. For that, thanks Diana. No worry okay?

And then today, Friday, I went home after my computer lab class. We learned about PowerPoint today and I have to do slides as homework this weekend. I like the lecturer though; he's very clear in his presentation. Good job! Earlier, I had my SAT Math class. I'm glad my tuition English teacher certainly did not lie to me. If the SAT vocabulary was like worlds apart from SPM, the SAT Math was like PMR's Math! We learn sum, subtract, multiply, n quotient today, believe it or not!

Today was my first ever experience driving long distance alone! (Pat my back :p) Okay, not really alone as my dad accompanied me with his bike but alone you know. As in I have to focus real hard on the road for over an hour without my usual noisy friends to keep me alert. And I did it! Yay Syaza!!! :p

-C-

p/s: I'd like to thank Hafiz aka demondust89 for helping me A LOT with my computer class assignment. The lecturer, Ms Chong is quite a tough lady that's why I want to buy the text book first but the 2008 edition will only arrive with my psychology book on Monday... So he was much help for the time being :)

Doubts Answered :)

So today was the first Monday when we (the Muslim students of social science) had the chance to 'test' our ridiculously packed schedule. We have classes from 8 in the morning up until 4 in the afternoon. Yup, u got it right, no lunch hour nor time for us to pray our Zuhur. But it was all settled. We made a deal with our Computer lecturer so that the next time she'll excuse us earlier so that we can pray. About lunch, not important eh?

But the story is this. The first class for today was chemistry. I came quite prepared as I’ve already read the whole note for Chapter One beforehand. While we were in class, discussing matter n all, I realized that I was so into it. I was! I was answering with all excitement n when a debate occurred between our lecturer n Valerie, a new friend of mine, I was actually really excited to figure it all out n my brain was really working extra hard. I'm not happy until I got my own conclusion. N then it hit me. I DO love science... Unlike most of my social science course mates, I actually DO love n am GOOD at it. I started to doubt my choice. "Should I have taken medicine?? Or engineering?? Or actuary??" Because I AM interested in science... I was a bit down for most of my morning...

After that we had to attend a briefing by MACEE (Malaysian-American Commission of Education Exchange) on how to get to an Ivy League school. The numbers were really.... scary. The percentage to get to COLUMBIA is about 11.6%. Many had questioned my choice and why I don’t want to go to Harvard. Well, Columbia has social science n is in New York. And then the talk went on with Datin Marlene asking what courses we're taking. When she saw hands shot for Social Science she seemed happy and said "Good! That's new!" :)

But the REAL reason for my re-affirming my choice was my first General Psychology class :) I admit, at first I was nervous. FINALLY, this is my chance to learn this subject that I’ve been doing my own research on since I was 12. I was really nervous, because most of the students in my class are my course mates and of course they ALL want to do the same thing. I'm afraid I'll fall behind or something. But when the class started I found out that I already have most of the answers Dr. Fulton asked! Then I started to get excited. How can I not?! I've been reading about the things he mentioned since six years ago! I totally got what he's talking about n am more confident to do it now.

I certainly didn't make the wrong decision. I may b good at science, n arts may b a new thing for me, but it's a challenge and is something I'm going to love doing most probably all my life :)

-C-

First Lecture

So anyway today was the first day of my official class. But actually I got to start my story starting from yesterday just for my mum's knowledge. Anyway last night Sofiya and I were bored! We don’t what to do after arriving at INTI around 7pm. Both of us had our dinner and most of our other friends were still not back. But fortunately Taufiq was! n he was hungry! So the two of us accompanied him to the mamak stall. After that when we went back to our rooms we bumped into Diana and Eli, our neighbor. They decided to pay us a visit n hung around in our room till 12.30 am. We chat and ate the chicken my mum packed for me. Anyway Diana n Eli take Social Science too so we decided the four of us should go to class together.

So today my first class was my SAT (verbal) class for three hours. The lecture, Pal Singh is a soft spoken person... But i can tell we're all in a really tough class. SAT's standard is much higher than SPM. I'm not that shocked though as my tuition teacher once told me that already that SAT's English is hard but its Math is easy. On the first day and we already had a test!

The next class was chemistry. It was an okay lecture. Just an introduction. Tomorrow we'll be going to the lab. Still it is Chemistry that left us with homework already. Read on tomorrow's experiment.

Next was English Composition. Quite ok la. The lecturer, Miss Judy Ng seems nice. And we already started on our course and I've never been in an English class that requires THAT much critical thinking. Now I'm ready though :)

Tomorrow will be a lepak day our class is only at 8am till 10am and then 4pm till 6pm.

-C-

p/s: Note to self, bring my poem book!

INTI Song!

OK, I just have to write this down as the song has been playing in my mind over and over for the past hours...

Across the land and ocean
Young hearts come from everywhere
We'll march forth with a mission
Proudly proclaiming where ever we go

A memorable place for us all
Where there's dreams for everyone
Hand in hand we'll join together
And steadfast we stand tall

INTI, INTI, with one mind, one heart, one voice
Marching towards a new horizon
With a clear vision!

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