first hand experience in monash

the proclaims in this post is entirely genuine

yesterday marks the end of my classes for this week

the very first week where classes commence

after 3 days of classes, I think I do have an idea on what uni life is all about

let me briefly take u through my 1st week of classes

1)environment

-the uni is neither too big nor too small, their offices are all in one building so we always noe where to head to when we need assistance from the lecturers or even the administrators. Lecture halls are not as comfy as the ones I had in college coz the seats in my college are cushioned and here they are plastic seats which really hurt ur butt even it's only an hour. But classrooms are nice compared to college, they have better and more organised tables and more comfy chairs. Next the cafeteria which is the only place we can eat as the other places seems really far, the price and choices of food are of no difference with what we can get in subang and pj area.

2)classes

-for this sem I am having 4 subjects consisting of 1 core subject, 2 electives and 1 LAN subject.

went for lectures and tutorials and everything was really different from college. Firstly, buying a textbook is not necessary in college but in uni, there is a need to get a textbook or else u can't study and u can't do ur assignments. Then is the referencing system. Lecturers in uni is really concerned about plagirism and marks will be deducted even if u miss a punctuation in citing the reference. Next, research is a very popular form of studying in uni. U need to look up for information on ur own in the library such as books and journals to actually get reliable resources. We tend to turn to the internet when we need information but the info provided there is just too vast and we can't identify which is true and false. So we need to do it the traditional way by going back to the books to seek for help.

3)social circle

-being an international and worldwide known education instituition, the campus tend to have many foreign students from china, indonesia, korea, iran and even exchange students from australia. it's great knowing that we would have classmates from all over the world and from different cultures. Nevertheless, we still tend to stick to our very own company of friends and accquantainces. Being in a society like that drives me away from how I used to socialize with people. People of the same culture might even look at you from a different perspective in fact those who are from a different culture treat u equally. I got to know this malay girl from singapore and we became instant friends. Trying to get a friend from the same culture seems really distant right now.

Basically this quotes my feelings now,

"To grasp any understanding seemed like trying to climb a greasy pole" - a qoute from some book I read today

Will be going on a weekend holiday with my family..It has been such a long time since I last went on a trip with them..Will try to get photos of strawberries..