In my 1st term, I didn't do much work... I slept a lot because I felt tired, and though I knew they were important I didn't see the urgency of completing my tutorial sheets... And I guess I paid the price during my progress tests recently. Got an average a class lower than I would expect, though I won't say what it was.
Now my daily timetable goes something like:
0730: Wake up
0830: On the bus to College
0900-1700: Lectures, tutorials, labs
1730: BH (means dinner)
1830: Hopefully on the bus back to College, to the library
2300: Go back and sleep
Well it's not that rigid, I still do stuff in the evenings sometimes. And my weekends I kind of free up.
So yeah
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Saturday, December 12, 2009
{imperial}
I do 9 subjects in the 1st term of the 1st year of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College. 1 of them is just for this term only, while some others will be there for years to come.. There's about 25 hours of contact time (lectures, tutorials, labs) per week and we're expected to do about 25 hours of work outside of this as well. That's gonna be mainly problem sheets. Wednesday afternoons are off, as with anywhere else in the UK, and Thursday/Friday afternoon are too if you have no labs on the day. Otherwise, it's 9-5 every day more or less.
In the order which I like to use:
1) Mathematics
3 lectures, 2 tutorials per week
Lotsa problem sheets
2) Materials (My favourite so far!)
1 lecture per week, 1 tutorial per fortnight
About as many problem sheets as tutorials
3) Thermodynamics (Another joint favourite)
1 lecture, 1 tutorial per week (tutorial shared with Fluid Mechanics)
A few problem sheets
4) Fluid Mechanics
1 lecture, 1 tutorial per week (tutorial shared with Thermodynamics)
About as many problem sheets as tutorials
5) Mechanics
1 lecture per week, 1 tutorial per fortnight
About half a dozen problem sheets
6) Stress Analysis
1 lecture per week, 1 tutorial per fortnight
A few problem sheets!
7) Design & Manufacture
The most unique subject - thrown at us right from the start with the cantilever project - has in it stuff ranging from brainstorming and decision-making to sketching and metal-cutting so far
2 lectures, 1 (extended) tutorial per week
Labs! Workshop to be more appropriate - Manufacturing Technology wearing boiler suits
Projects/assignments to take home here and there
8) Experimental Reporting Skills (ERS)
2 (I think) lectures the whole term
Labs (in lab coats)! 2 of them; report to be written for each
1 tutorial per report
9) Mechatronics
1 lecture per week, 1 tutorial per fortnight
2 labs this term
There won't be anymore ERS for this year, but we're starting Computing in the Spring term!
Progress tests are all the 1st week of the new term, starting 11th January; I'll be using the Christmas break to get up to speed on everything. Wish me the best!
Saturday, September 19, 2009
{brunei yakin}
Hello everyone! Thought I'd give this blog an update and write a new post given all that I've got to talk about. Let's see: Hari Raya Aidilfitri is the day after tomorrow (Monday) and I'm flying off to the U and K on Friday the 25th! I haven't been packing much although I have been occasionally throwing stuff into my suitcase. I hope to finish tidying up my room tomorrow after which I can actually focus on packing. 8pm flight in 6 days!
There were 3 interviewers - Hj Mat Zahri, Assistant Managing Director of YSHHB; along with 2 others: ladies from the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Ministry of Health respectively. It was a semi-formal interview.. I guess they just wanted to gauge our potential for the scholarship before we sat for our A Levels. I remember walking away feeling kind of dazed - long periods in offices do that to you, as I learned during my attachment with BSP earlier this year - especially when you're being interviewed by people you've just met!
The gruelling (and grilling) process took the most part of the hour. Though I felt I sailed through the interview, it would not have been if not for the experience from the initial screening interview I attended and my whole day doing the BSP Assessment Centre, which, by the way, can really differentiate the doers from the people who say they do. The questions this time round put a lot of focus on 'self' - how I view things, how I would do things given the chance, how I would lead in a position of responsibility. Heavy scrutiny. I was probed as well into the possible reasons why I had failed to gain admission into Oxford (which was my 1st choice above Imperial College). For that, I admit that I have long been a 'jack of all trades, master of none' which didn't help.
I heard occasionally afterwards from the guys at Pendidikan Yayasan though they were careful never to tell much despite the repeated (informal) enquiries. About half a year after that 2nd interview at Kumbang Pasang, and only days before the awarding ceremony itself was it all confirmed - I, along with 4 others, all but one whom I knew, were going to be Sultan's Scholars! My prayers for the past year had been answered.
Some photos were taken from Borneo Bulletin's online page.
Saturday, December 06, 2008
{for now}
There's good news and bad news - the bad news is that I have just received a rejection letter from a certain university.
The good news is:
1) I have offers from two other universities
2) I am waiting for a reply from another good (great!) university
3) I am on a 10-day holiday to the UK and Singapore and I'm enjoying it!!
The good news is:
1) I have offers from two other universities
2) I am waiting for a reply from another good (great!) university
3) I am on a 10-day holiday to the UK and Singapore and I'm enjoying it!!
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
{be mine}
Alhamdulillah, I just sat for my last 'A' level paper today. I'm done now. Now I can:
1) Read all the books I've been meaning to read
2) Watch all the movies I've been meaning to watch/re-watch
3) Tidy up my room
4) Drink all the (fresh) coffee I like
Yeah!!
1) Read all the books I've been meaning to read
2) Watch all the movies I've been meaning to watch/re-watch
3) Tidy up my room
4) Drink all the (fresh) coffee I like
Yeah!!
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
{as i go}
President-elect of the United States of America.. Mr. Barack Hussein Obama. Why are we taking notice? I think due to the fact that.. the office of the President of the United States is, in effect, the office of the most powerful person on earth.
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