Plickers!

Heys, have you guys heard of Plickers, or used it before?? It is really cool! My lecturer used it for class today to go through some MCQs and here's what happened. We were each issued a unique QR code on an A4 sized paper. The QR code was in the shape of a square so each side of the square was represented by a letter (ie. options A,B,C,D). We thus had to show our answers by holding the QR code upright with our chosen option at the top and the lecturer would use an iPad to scan the QR codes in the room and our answers would appear on the screen. It even reflects the right and wrong answers!
This sure made the lecture so much more fun and interesting. I could tell it wasn't only us students who were having fun haha! Unfortunately, we only go through MCQs once every 5 classes so the next such session would be 5 weeks away. Really looking forward to it!

New class, new lecturer

I just had my first Stats 2(ST104b) lecture for the year today and I sure am glad to have gotten a new lecturer. I sure do hope this lecturer is able to help me understand Statistics better so that I would not be too confused with it yet again. Indeed, just from today's lecture I had already gained some insights to the first topic.
I am really excited to begin Stats classes finally which will really test how much more I understand with all the revision I did since last year. New year, new lecturer. ST104b will be much better this year!

Timetable is finally complete!

I took a look at my timetable for classes for this week earlier this morning and saw that I had something extra on Wednesday morning. It was my final mod, Stats 2! Then it struck me that today was the last day of Nov and we were entering Dec tomorrow. Yupp, my Stats 2 classes were supposed to begin when December starts. Haha, so my timetable is now finally completed! I'll need to plan my time better to keep up!

Tests and Assignments

Hey guys, I'm back.
It sure has been a long and tiring week. Damn, I'm sure glad it's finally the weekend. So what have I been busy with? Yupp, school.
Well, I have been trying to keep up with classes and thus have been revising a lot since school started. This week though, I've had to prepare for tests and there are deadlines for assignment submission. I had one Macro test this past week which turned into a take home assignment. I just handed in my third assignment for Econometrics on Monday and just got reminded on Thurs that next week is the test for Micro. I have yet to begin revision on Micro really. I'm falling behind on that one. Oh yes, and I've got an ESAP essay due two days from now. I'm really hoping to get that done latest by tomorrow though. I don't want to work on those essays too last minute.
So far I've only not gotten any take home assignments from Micro yet but I guess it's just a matter of time. I'm really trying to catch up with everything before my last mod, Stats 2, starts. The workload is just going to increase when the last mod begins.
On another note, the school's computer system has been changed, Now we have to log in with our personal ID and all which I kind of prefer. Sort of makes it more personalized haha!
Right, I'm really shag now. Going to sleep. Nights,

Exams!

It's really awesome that my exams were held all the way in the east and JL could accompany me to the exams earlier this year in June.
Now it was time for him to take his exams and they were here in the west where I was so I could return the favour and accompany him for his exams haha!

Clear skies!

Heys, the skies have cleared!
I mean it! The skies have been clear for almost a week now, and the PSI has not risen past 50 since the end of last week. I am really hopeful now that the haze is finally over. This is largely due to the heavy downpours falling almost daily since last week. Despite the warning of dry weather, it seems like that did not materialise. Thankfully, the wet weather towards the end of the year helped to rid us of the haze.
For the first time in a long while, the skies are blue, clouds are fluffy and white. Most importantly, the air smells fresh.
Cheers to good weather for the rest of the year!

Missed Class

Oops, just realised I had missed a Psychology class. I just had Psychology class earlier this afternoon and throughout the lecture I had that strange feeling that I had missed a session of the class, though I was sure I had attended the last session. And that was a revision lecture of the first four topics. Even the notes I had printed for today's lecture was wrong. I had printed the notes for lecture 6 but we were doing lecture 7 today. Weird. The lecturer also kept referring to stuff that we had supposedly learnt in the last lecture which I had totally no recollection of. I had wondered then how a whole lecture's content had been totally forgotten, which was really quite worrying.
 It was only after I got home and flipped through my dairy that I saw I was supposed to have had an extra class on Tuesday evening due to the cancellation of a class in December. Oh wells, now that sort of clears things up, haha! I had unknowingly skipped a class, damn! That means I'd have to self study that particular chapter. This would indeed be a good opportunity for me to flip through the subject guide hmm. Frankly, I have yet to touch any of my subject guides since they arrived.
I'd also better make sure I keep track of when I'm going to have replacement classes. I think I have some more coming up soon, if I remember correctly. Okay, I'm going to end off here. Before that, I'd like to clarify I did not "pon" class. I had totally forgotten about it.
Haha, I better not have that happen again.