i can't stand it. i don't understand why the "globally-recognized" NUS comes with bidding and balloting [b&b] which costs us all HOURS in front of cors and what not, trying to tie the loose ends. and [b&b] though they sound different, holds ultimately the same concept. can you see that? rank 1: 20 points. rank 2: 19 points. and so on.
and then i start to wonder, why can't nus function as other unis do? why not just publish the no. of vacancies for each tut slot, and students sign up accordingly, guaranteed of their seat?
it's like really bad, like, how my schedule is screwed up. like for example how my tuesdays are from what, 3pm to 8pm??? and weds are like 2pm to 8pm??
the only light at the end of the tunnel explains to me that [b&b] is simply a system that ensures that place allocation is fair in the sense that if let's say a student haven't got the time to rush to the portal when [b&b] starts when all his peers have done it, he would be disadvantaged. so that's the only reason i can think of.
sigh.
at this moment in time some tears just came out by accident because oprah is on, and she just fulfilled an african girl's dream of going to school. can you see what she's telling me?
oh man! what do we do!
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my grandma broke her arm.
that's the thing about the elderly, they are so fragile even though their external looks stronger than their internal, however lively they may appear to be. and i don't understand why anlene isn't working.
and my grandmother... i feel guilty about it, because i asked her out to watch the 'lao-lang' movie 881 by royston tan. and when i met her she was holding her wrist, i ask her what happened and she said she fell down while crossing the road. i mean, we were meeting at 12 but she was there earlier. old people, they have a knack for punctuality. everytime we meet up for a movie she's always earlier than me. EVERY SINGLE TIME. and don't say that i should have got there earlier, i was there at 11.45am and she was already there!!!
if only i didn't ask her out to watch 881. none of these would have happened...
so this post is just to remind you (and myself) of the fragility of the elderly.
i just got a call. my the other grandmother, on mom's side of the family, just called me to bring her to 881 because i've no school today.
-hilz
.........well at least it's official to me...! :P
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im glad that for years, NUS adopt a more classy and civilizied style of bidding and balloting for modules..
i mean take a look at our brainless counterparts at NTU who r still using the fastest fingers first system..
do u think its intelligent sitting in front of the comp at 9am sharp (some camp at 8+) to wait for the window to open and compete with tens of thousands sch mates over the modules?
so wats gonna happen to the poor server? do u think its powerful enuff to accomodate so many students clicking like crazy and refreshing the sch webpage if they tell them that server is busy? once the server is down, its gonna be pure agony to sit beside the comp waiting for the server to be up again. the cycle goes on when the mob again rush in to crush the server. which do u think is longer? bidding or waiting?
i can relate that to the incident in yr2005 during NUS bidding round2a. the server was down becoz of idiots like us who thought that its a 1st come 1st serve basis.. as a result, more time was wasted..
if u think the system is unfair to u, think again.. who's gonna be the one receiving the unfair advantage when u go up to higher levels?
ah ze: i appreciate your point of view, and a very optimistic one at that. i am not good at choosing words very well when i'm fired up, and apparently it goes the same for u.
desperation leaves one no alternative.
i'm sure it's classy and civilized to play education using wealth and watch the desperate upping the stakes and then withdrawing in the 'unseen' period so as to save their asses. i'm sure u've seen more of that than me.
and the 'protected' round is quite funny, i don't quite get it till now. why are the programme modules protected instead of the general modules? cos the programme modules in question are exposure modules, and how many seniors actually are lack of them? well if anyone has got that figured out, do kindly explain.
cors is a commendable attempt in preventing system crashes, and making it fair.. but it's known campus-wide as a brain. it's a thing by itself. it's left to work by itself.
when students are lack of essential modules, what do the office tell them? it's the system. it's cors. the brain working on its own. nothing they can do.
and funny enough, a friend of mine sees the similarity of cors with the "singapore way of doing things". where the "survival of fittest" is at play, and those of the bottom are the poor ones [in terms of points].
"it can be quite merciless, the very element that should be absent, at all times, in a civilised system"
i know someone who comes to school at 6pm-8pm just for that day.
i know another who comes to school at 10-11am just for that day.
to be fair to cors, it has its merits, which i would be happy to share with people new to the system. a first come first served basis like NTU, where "our brainless counterparts" is in serious need of change.
but then whatever i say, you say, or anyone says, it's a system we have to live with and abide by, for one voice isn't loud enough.
let's leave this at that, for your humble freshie is a very peaceful person unless the situation provokes her. and this brings me to other issues.
it's protected that way cos arts students have 7 unrestricted electives each over the course of 3/4 years. while with the general account you only NEED to use it for 5 modules. and what better way to fill up ue slots than using level-1000 modules? that's why they enforced a maximum number of level-1000 modules on us all. i think the number is 7.
well it's not really uniquely singaporean. the phenomenon is simple i suppose: you have a scarcity with regards to the number of students you can accommodate for every module, due to logistical and manpower constraints. just that nus has latched onto the bidding system, and ntu the balloting system or whatever it is that they're doing now. i don't think any one system is a 'fairer' one, cos to solve scarcity in any way is to distribute to some and to refuse others entry. it's arbitrary, in my view, that we've stuck to the bidding system.
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