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Reflection for Semester 1, Year 1
11:06 PM Friday, November 26, 2010


These are the mistakes that have cost me extra work and effort to overcome. The friction in a smooth sailing uni life. I have reflected on those mistakes and hereby present my reflections on how I can improve for the next semester and what works best for me.

1. I shall print my lecture notes and understand what shall be covered before coming for lecture.

2. If shall speed-read my readings only after the lecture and accompanied by my lecture notes. This will take 2h. I will filter out the important bits as per the 80/20 rule and summarise them. I will then make a mind map of each lecture content. This will take max 2 hours after the lecture. I must sit somewhere and finish this. I can only let myself be distracted by my iPhone in a 25-5min rule. My iPhone's functions has been missing for the whole of Sem 1 so now I will again make spending $500 on this phone, worth it. N mb I should put Airplane mode sometimes.

3. I will understand everything taught that week by Friday.

4. If possible I will arrange lectures to be in the beginning of the week and tutorials at the end. Tutorials must be after lectures.

5. I need to eat healthier. I really don't like school food with the exception of Science sandwiches.

6. I need to study in an aircon place.

7. I will never choose a module like Space Time Matter ever. :(

8. I dunno what to do about group projects. It's a mystery how to score in this segment.

9. Individual assignments have been fine.

10. I will have to do tutorials more dilligently. Really understand concepts before I go in tutorial.

11. Prepare a file for each module.

12. Preparing a weekly plan has worked for me greatly. Keep that up! ~~

13. Print/save in Evernote/Stanza the breakdown of components and percentage pegged to the component. No I think putting this up on my wall will be better so I know where to distribute my efforts.

14. Exercise more per week.

15. Wake earlier because those who wake late has lost a lot of time.


Now, I feel like that period in Pre-U 2 where I wanted classes to end and the long study break before A levels to start. Yeah I want to re-do my semester and make it better. Because there were so many frivolous things that I did not have to commit myself to. Yeah. One semester is a dead on state of focus in a concentrated period of 4 months. Though seniors and the experienced staff do tell me that Year 1 is the most difficult year as it is the year of transition, it takes your own experience to really understand what it is like. As I feel like a dump now that my last STM paper is a confirmed cap-puller in the direction of the negative y-axis, there is nothing I can do except reflect and remind myself not to do this again. I cannot emphasise on how module choice is important and that sometimes the ability to score in a module > the desire to take a module out of intellectual interest. However, a senior has said that module does not clash with your schedule and you really want to sit in lectures, you can email the professor and ask nicely.

N I can't take learning a language right now.



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I wished I could do more. HBTUD...





NURsa
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<3 family
<3 friends
<3 balloons
<3 presents
<3 sleeping
<3 surprises!
<3 good design
<3 poetry
<3 great stories
<3 looking at the stars
<3 patterns: houndstooth floral, plaids/checkered
<3 colours:purple,pink,brown,grey,black
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MOVIE WISHLIST
1. Sepet
2. Gubra
3. Mukhsin
4. Muallaf
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6. Nick and Norah's Playlist
7. The Day The Earth Stood Still
8. Wildchild
9. Lars and the Real Girl
10. Sandcastle

BOOKS TO READ
1. The Age of Innocence by Edith Warton
2. Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
3. The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss






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