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Thursday, March 31, 2005
[2 tight slaps and 1 swift kick up the ass...]
...is what some people in NUS need.
Ever since going to NUS, I noticed that people in Uni like to complain. A lot. On the forums, they complain about all sorts of crap. They behave like spolit brats who think that everybody else owes them something. And don't get me started on the foreigners....I've seen a foreigner post some rather lousy complaints once, and if I get the chance to see him/her face to face, I'd pack him/her in a box and sell him/her back to whatever banana-producing country he/she came from.
Take, for example, this module I'm taking. The lectures run from 12pm to 2pm, and the lecturer posted a message on the course website, saying that since "some of us" need to take a bus to our next class, he would try to end the class by 1:45pm. Ok, that's nice. But to be honest, he doesn't have to do that. The allocated time to him was 2 hours, and if some students while planning their timetables feel that they are able to fly from one end of NUS to another in 60 seconds, then that's their own problem. I mean, come on, if you're planning your timetable and realised that you need to catch a bus to your next class, you really shouldn't plan the 2 classes one after another, would you? Don't take away 15 mins of everyone's lecture time every week just because you don't understand the concept of time.
The next one, is the one that got me really. For the same module, the lecturer posted a message that he'd received many requests for him to type out the tutorial questions every week and post them online. Just so we're clear, most of the questions are rather long and it's quite a lot of work to type them out, especially when they are from the course textbook. The reason students requested for him to do this? Because they're using an older edition of the book, and the questions are different.
What the fuck?
It's stated clearly which book we'd be using, and which edition. If you wanted to save a few bucks and bought the textbook from a senior who used an older edition, fine. Then you borrow the new one and photocopy the questions. Simple as that. It's not the lecturer's responsibility to make sure you have access to the questions when you obviously have the "wrong" book.
I don't want to make a sweeping statement or anything, but I have a feeling that most of the people behind these "requests" are JC students. I have nothing against JC students, in fact have a number of them as my good friends. But I feel they haven't been exposed enough to the real world, and are very much sheltered individuals. They should wake up, and realise that in this world, nobody owes you shit.
^^^ by Locksley @ 10:44 AM.
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