A new school life
Its been a week since the official start of poly. And im warming up to the place and system.
I HATE having to use notebooks in school. my dad refuses to buy a new laptop, so im stuck with joel's old and lousy laptop. its a price to pay for getting a new desktop. joel boasts of it being a gaming laptop, but its slow! and the best game it can play is prolly dota. and many other laps can do that too. Its also relatively very heavy. adds a big burden to my bag everyday.
And if u study in SP, youll need to do soemthing called self certification on ur laptop if its not bought from the SP vendors. its meant to model the system to be what SP desires it be, and allows access to certain SP websites and connection to SP wireless. compulsory. its like the whole thing gets reformatted, everything on it erased, and then i have to manually install many programs and make many changes according to a thick manual to refer when doing SC.
Its a super sian thing. I did it on monday. i went there after school at 12+, and it lasted until 6+. I didnt have lunch first. So during my time locked up in that cold room i was all hungry, and that catalyses the sian-ness. Almost a torture. It was my new record: 11 hours of not eating anything at all, while none of the time spent sleeping. only had plain water. I totally skipped lunch and got home to eat dinner.
There are also other problems with this laptop that my classmates call antique. Due to incompatibilty of the system, a few programs couldnt be installed during SC, for example windows xp professional. So i might face some problems in future should i need the program. The comp's quite slow in loading stuff, so its rather inconvenient. After 3 years of wearing out, the battery is totally screwed up now. after charging for 3 hours it can only last without power for 5 minutes. Buying a new laptop from the school would have made things much easier and better. Plus its at a discounted rate, about 30-40% cheaper than outside price.
My transition from sec school to poly marks a beginning of a new school life, and that means a new chance to do things that i couldnt or didnt in sec sch. An example would be CCAs. i dont know what got into me.. in sec sch i only had 1 cca and i was rather bochup about it. Now, theres so many ccas that interest me... like campus crudase for christ, which ill likely join, theatre compass , CADC (i went for its orientation camp), student enterpreneurs, student exchange and for a moment i even considered choir! I have to make my decision.. at max ill have 2.
The school of business is overrun with girls. in my class theres 6 boys and 16 girls. and even larger ratio than the previous 11: 28 in sec 4.
Poly isnt so much like i expected and feared. if i knew it was like that from the start, maybe my desire to go jc wouldnt have developed. i expected poly to have a very irregular timetable. well it isnt as regular as sec sch.. it changes every week, but it always starts at 9. A good timing, cos sp is on the way from my moms office and the time is right, so she can fetch me to school everyday! a blessing in disguise to going SP, by the fact that i have no direct bus. initially i stayed in SP and didnt appeal to same course in ngee ann cos i heard SP is better on the whole than NP. SP grads enjoy their poly life more than NP grads, the lecturers and school system is also more efficient. (i have direct bus to ngee ann.) I also expected poly to be very project and hands-on based. but no, for my course its mainly academics. projects make up only about a quarter of my score. I didnt know poly also had CCAs, and theyre so 'on' about it. Cos joel has no cca. (CCA was one of the attractions to jc at first) And i also wanted to have a new uniform. i didnt wanna go poly cos i dunno how to dress up. But a special feature of my course is that starting from 2 may onwards, students will have to wear formal attire on thursdays, and smart casual on others. Strict checks will be taken to ensure our dressing meets the requirements, and failure results in penalty. So its almost like uniform! i kinda like it. =)
I HATE having to use notebooks in school. my dad refuses to buy a new laptop, so im stuck with joel's old and lousy laptop. its a price to pay for getting a new desktop. joel boasts of it being a gaming laptop, but its slow! and the best game it can play is prolly dota. and many other laps can do that too. Its also relatively very heavy. adds a big burden to my bag everyday.
And if u study in SP, youll need to do soemthing called self certification on ur laptop if its not bought from the SP vendors. its meant to model the system to be what SP desires it be, and allows access to certain SP websites and connection to SP wireless. compulsory. its like the whole thing gets reformatted, everything on it erased, and then i have to manually install many programs and make many changes according to a thick manual to refer when doing SC.
Its a super sian thing. I did it on monday. i went there after school at 12+, and it lasted until 6+. I didnt have lunch first. So during my time locked up in that cold room i was all hungry, and that catalyses the sian-ness. Almost a torture. It was my new record: 11 hours of not eating anything at all, while none of the time spent sleeping. only had plain water. I totally skipped lunch and got home to eat dinner.
There are also other problems with this laptop that my classmates call antique. Due to incompatibilty of the system, a few programs couldnt be installed during SC, for example windows xp professional. So i might face some problems in future should i need the program. The comp's quite slow in loading stuff, so its rather inconvenient. After 3 years of wearing out, the battery is totally screwed up now. after charging for 3 hours it can only last without power for 5 minutes. Buying a new laptop from the school would have made things much easier and better. Plus its at a discounted rate, about 30-40% cheaper than outside price.
My transition from sec school to poly marks a beginning of a new school life, and that means a new chance to do things that i couldnt or didnt in sec sch. An example would be CCAs. i dont know what got into me.. in sec sch i only had 1 cca and i was rather bochup about it. Now, theres so many ccas that interest me... like campus crudase for christ, which ill likely join, theatre compass , CADC (i went for its orientation camp), student enterpreneurs, student exchange and for a moment i even considered choir! I have to make my decision.. at max ill have 2.
The school of business is overrun with girls. in my class theres 6 boys and 16 girls. and even larger ratio than the previous 11: 28 in sec 4.
Poly isnt so much like i expected and feared. if i knew it was like that from the start, maybe my desire to go jc wouldnt have developed. i expected poly to have a very irregular timetable. well it isnt as regular as sec sch.. it changes every week, but it always starts at 9. A good timing, cos sp is on the way from my moms office and the time is right, so she can fetch me to school everyday! a blessing in disguise to going SP, by the fact that i have no direct bus. initially i stayed in SP and didnt appeal to same course in ngee ann cos i heard SP is better on the whole than NP. SP grads enjoy their poly life more than NP grads, the lecturers and school system is also more efficient. (i have direct bus to ngee ann.) I also expected poly to be very project and hands-on based. but no, for my course its mainly academics. projects make up only about a quarter of my score. I didnt know poly also had CCAs, and theyre so 'on' about it. Cos joel has no cca. (CCA was one of the attractions to jc at first) And i also wanted to have a new uniform. i didnt wanna go poly cos i dunno how to dress up. But a special feature of my course is that starting from 2 may onwards, students will have to wear formal attire on thursdays, and smart casual on others. Strict checks will be taken to ensure our dressing meets the requirements, and failure results in penalty. So its almost like uniform! i kinda like it. =)
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