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As Mr Genki kicks start week 3 of school, he's beginning to get very whiny about things. At the same, Mr Genki misses dearly the lecturers and tutors in Jurong Junior College and the kind of concise but yet useful notes he used to get when he was studying in Junior College. Those were the good old days......

Before I begin on this part, I should say my opinions are solely based on what I think the system has been so far. 3rd week in school and Mr Genki's still struggling to settle down with academic works. Largely because

1) Academic stuff are totally new to me and naturally I should find it hard to adapt in the beginning right? Read On...

2) In lieu of being concise, the lecture notes given were far too concise till the point that it becomes vague. As a "Freshman" or a "Student", I attend school because I want to learn something. And if lecture notes get so vague, students are going to shrug their shoulders or even worse adds on: "I don't know what I don't know!"

3) Again, this part is included due to some kind of learning experience that I had for the day. I was 25 minutes late for a tutorial class today and surprisingly I did not miss a thing. The tutor had barely introduced himself as I scrambled myself into the room looking for a seat. Well, guess puntuality is no longer a virtue already? What's worse? The tutor lacked clarity when speaking and had even claimed that some questions in the Statistics tutorial assignment are rather contentious and had no standard answer to it when he's challenged by the class (I may buy that if I was in a GP class, but Statistics?). I should say at least I've been lucky being deterred by the $2 peak hours cab surcharge, otherwise cab fare would be unjustified.

Generally, some of the lecturers lacked clarity when conducting lessons. Unfortunately for Mr Genki, these lessons are those that he seemed to be more alien to. Now that I can't rely on the notes and a tutor, I would only have my textbooks and peers to turn to (quite fair as most MCQs have 4 choices).

Of course Mr Genki is a fair person (though he had always preferred to be tanned). I should say what's written were mostly based on the more unpleasant experience I had in school so far (and it's only the beginning) which does not apply across the whole of the university. And yes, it's all about independent and self-study in order to get through the program (which there are quite a number of successful examples). Well, if you're paying like more than 6 grands per year to study like that, you can't help but to be disciplined in self-studying right? Hopefully, learning experience will get better and better in time. And also, Gunners, please win your next game!