the last class......

http://www.bartleby.com/313/4/2.html
the last class by Alphonse Daudet

4 years of being an undergrad in NUS, almost a quarter of my life thus far (take the closest round number, which is 20, divide it by 4, you get 5, which is close to 4, and therefore, 4 years is close to one quarter of my life, yea, call me a cheater)........

i remember my first class.......ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, by prof leslie harrison. god. ask any life sci yr 3 or 4, instead of answering you, they'd give u a disgusted look. it was that bad. i walked into class by a few minutes late. saw the stressed out look of everyone in the LT. apparently, everyone was trying as hard as possible to copy all the details the lecturer wrote on the OHP. and he-who-likes-to-torment-every-freshman writes and draws bee hives (think many many benzenes joined together) at the speed of light and takes it down even faster.

my first class - how to write fast to survive university.

what a start.

and just a few weeks ago, was my last. i admit. i was hoping for a daudet-like (refer link) last class, ending in a standing ovation my dear friend zhong hong once talked abt in berkeley. and yea. we're in singapore, we're asians, u've guessed it. it did not happen.

however, i was still hoping for something close to it. some claps maybe for the dedicated lecturer?

my last class - clinical trials by prof you-know-who

enough said i guess.

and for the final semester, i finally saw my good old friend again, A+. It's been a while. And to have it printed beside my 16MC honours year project module made it even better.



i once dreamed of a 5.0 graduation. that dream was crushed by vietnamese 2 where i got my first B+ in year 1 sem 2.

but then again whether you're 4.5 or 4.9999999, you still get your first class. regardless. i'd rather have a CAP of 4.75 and have a life than graduating with a CAP of 5.0 without a life.

while there were things that i wish i could change, i can still safely say that i had a fruitful 4 years.