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Saturday, September 29, 2012

I'm pretty sure you've heard this one before, either from your JC teacher, or from people who have went through both systems.

Seriously, they've been smoking weed.

First, let's talk about the pace that they teach the content. I might be exaggerating, but I doubt that it's too far from the mark. The content that they teach in one semester (13 weeks), is close to the content that a JC would teach in a year. The university lecturers can go through one topic a week, or every two weeks. So we need to keep up, and that's just retarded.

Second, let's talk about the workload. It never ends. Well, that actually isn't the problem, considering that work never ends anywhere. The thing is, the work takes a buttload of time to do. One module's tutorial can take up to 4-5 hours to complete, and the day usually ends at 6. On a few special days it ends at 4.

Third, let's talk about the free time we have. Adding in the long time needed to do our tutorials to the long school hours, work usually ends at 10pm on a weekday. On a weekend, work never seems to stop either. Even though the whole day is free to do work, I somehow manage to fill up the whole day to do work. Either I need to review work that's been done, or I need to complete the next week's tutorials. Again, I manage to work till 10pm.

So a summary:
1. One year's worth of JC material is stuffed into 13 weeks for university
2. Homework takes forever to complete
3. Resulting in whole days burned away, with barely any free time to do anything. Even now I'm up at 1:42am to enjoy some free time typing this out.

Let's compare this to my JC life.

First, pace of study is a lot slower. Comparing this with the university pace, this leaves me a lot of room to breathe, meaning that there are actually times where I do not have any work to do.

Second, homework might not be easy either, but it's definitely easier than university homework, and it definitely takes a lot less time to complete. I remember completing my homework in less than 2 hours on most days. In fact, sometimes I even complete all my homework during the breaks that I have in between lessons. In university, I barely have any breaks at all.

Third, with the lower workload, my weekends are free 90% of the time. The remaining 10% is when I have examinations, or if there's an anomaly and I actually have work to do.

Fourth, school usually ends by 3pm. That said, school starts 3 hours earlier. So this point is moot.

In short:
1. Slower pace, more breathing space
2. Homework is completed at least two times faster, and sometimes it's so easily completed that it's done even before I'm home, giving me the rest of the day off.
3. Weekends are actually weekends. I can rest and play.

Note this:
1. I've never studied or done homework past 10pm before entering University. No, not even during the A-level or O-level periods. I was playing World of Warcraft during my A-levels, and I don't even have time to play for 3 hours in a day for University midterms. This is worse than the bloody army.
2. I've never burned all my weekends since the start of school before entering University. This is worse than the bloody army.
3. I've never gone a single day without doing a bit of work since entering University. Oh guess what? This is worse than the bloody army too.

The army point is moot too anyway, I had a really good life in the army that people would die for. My army life is an exception that shouldn't be the baseline to compare to.

How the hell this is easier than JC, I'll never know. Those who claim as such must have been probably sniffing drugs in University dorms to properly know what's going on.

posted @ 1:09 am
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