Today marks the start of 4 years in SMU.
Nothing content heavy was presented today, but yet I almost fell asleep for my first lesson. Or maybe that's why..
As you know, SMU focuses a lot on class participation, which is actually graded. So you are graded for sharing your views.
Many told me that I suit this seminar-style of learning, I myself think so too. Outspoken, daring, enthusiastic would probably be my attributes. But guess what, I HATE FLUFF!
I had Business, government and society along with Creative Thinking today. ALL ARE FLUFF. As long as as you speak out, present your ideas in a coherent manner, you'll do well. But obviously the profs look more for quality than frequency, which would also translate to the fact that your responses should be more unconventional. Stating something simple yet true may not earn you any points, when everyone could have pointed the same thing out.
Furthermore, I realised language plays a damn important role in these fluff modules. My english sucks and communicating thoughts into spoken words was never my forte. The people who actually spoke out today have a certain standard and I'm just stoning, jaw dropped, thinking of how to survive for the next 14 weeks.
For the benefit of doubt, today was only my first day. I have pysch lesson tmr and I'm kinda looking forward to it. I can't wait to start an interesting debate, such as econs vs pysch, rationality vs irrationality. It's still early to discuss that but I'm hoping for it (so that I can whip out my knowledge). It's probably socsci that interests me more la.
Hopefully I'll get used to the whole "class part" thing and learn to speak up. Have to get rid of the fear-of-getting-judged in me. University is a different ball game. Who cares about the As.
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