Haha… The title reminds me of the song: It’s the final countdown!!!
ANYWAYSSSS….
One more paper to go and I’m finally free of university life. Don’t even know whether to be happy or sad about it.
Still remember the first time I stepped into UCSI during orientation, I was still wondering, why the hell did I chose this place to study? I mean, I’ve come from a private school and I’ve studied in Taylors for Pre-U. You would have expected me to be the Monash type of students.
But I defied all expectations - even my own and chose UCSI. I was still wondering whether I’ve made the right choice even when I was well into my first year. At that time I’ve seen many friends leaving for other universities like UTAR and Monash and was wondering if I should follow them too.
But time passed so fast and before I knew it I’m already sitting for the finals of finals and will be graduating soon. Time passed too fast. I’m only 21 and I’ve completed my degree. If I’m lucky, I’m even gonna get an honours degree.
Sigh… Although I admit I do have my doubts about the U previously, it’s undeniable that I feel heavy hearted to leave now. I mean, come on la. I’ve been here for 3 years. I’ve seen it grow from a super new campus with only 1 academic block of 3 floors to what it is now - a 5-floor academic block and a high tech lab that’s become my almost second home.
And not to mention the friends… Haih…
Haha. Enough of reminiscence.
So, I was sitting for my Enzyme Tech paper yesterday right, and I’ve forgotten to bring my calculator!!! I never even in the slightest corner of my mind thought that I’d need one. I kept expecting it to be an essay paper. And then suddenly there was this plot-a-linear-graph question. And what’s more? I’ve to invert all the figures in the table that they gave. It’s like calculating 1/3.33, 1/0.33, 1/0.11…
So what am I to do without a calculator? I raised up my hand to ask for one but bitchy Roseline just told me NO! And I said "But I NEED a calculator. I can’t do my question without one!"
You know what she said? "Next time remember to bring la. Can’t help you now"… and she gave me the serves-you-right look. MFG! And they say the lecturers are here to help you pass your exams.
But anyway, being the resourceful me that I’ve always been (Che-wah! haha) I showed her I’m not completely useless without a calculator. So I grabbed the rough paper and started doing my bentuk lazim - something that I’ve not used since I could use calculators in high school. And lo and behold, I could still finish the 3 hour paper in 2 and a half hours.
Almost towards the end of the paper, I saw Roseline talking to Dr. Hon. Haha… you should have seen the look at Dr Hon’s face. She was like "Shit! My student’s gonna fail my paper because my colleague couldn’t care less!"
So she took Surain’s calculator and gave it to me. But I just showed her my rough paper of bentuk lazims and smiled… Haha. Dear Dr Hon, your student ain’t that useless k?
And then she called me and seven others to her office after the exam and said we’re chosen to participate in some quiz in UM for three days.
Actually, not to say I’m totally not interested… but I’ve gotta study the whole biochemistry text book in two weeks. That’s too much! Anyway, I still feel like going coz it’s been ages since I’ve taken part in something like that. The previous time was in high school. And I would wanna see how life’s like in a local university hostel so that I can better understand how JW lives in her hostel.
But undeniably, I would have said yes immediately if the venue was in UPM instead of UM. Haha. But oh well. Who cares right? Haha. I’ve gotta tell them by today if I were to reject… But… I guess I won’t la. It’s kinda interesting too. Who knows I might win the big prize of 25k? Lol. But I’m sure the uni’s gonna take all the money and give me the mock cheque. That’s what SSG used to do right? Lol.
K, gtg study for the final paper of my university life. BIOPROCESS ENG, here I come!
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