ord from nus year 1

those words you hear from your seniors to enjoy your time spent in the previous years? it's true! listen to your seniors. it's really no shit when jc students ask you to enjoy secondary school and when army peeps ask you to take your time in jc and when university undergrads tell you to nua in army for as long as possible. 1 year in nus flashed past in the blink of an eye. i remember that it was only just some time back when i was still worrying about accomodation on campus and whether there'll be babes in nus real estate. haha.

i decided to do a little recap on the modules that i've taken over the course of this 1 year and see whether a uni education is really holistic.

ST1131 Introduction to Statistics
nothing new really. learnt all these stuff about standard deviation and normal distribution back in jc. this module wasnt too hard.

PF1102 Visualisation in Design and Technology
ok fair enough this module is really easy. learnt about building elements (beams, columns, slabs, roof designs). the only thing pissing about this module is that the lecturer give stunt for the final exam. he said just refer to the past year papers as a reference as to the format for this year's paper but it was TOTALLY different. shock lah.

RE1801 Foundations of Real Estate Business
i swear that i didnt learn anything at all from this module. the lecturer spent most of his time during lectures telling us about how he brilliantly used leverage to secure 4 private properties and how he has been in the real estate industry for 30 years already and how he helped his son out of a tight spot when little jr flouted some traffic rule. the final exam was open book and i just copied chunks of his book (which he made us buy)(which is crap) into the paper. cant help but feel like he is some fraud.

RE1802 Real Estate Law
damn fierce module. made me feel like a lawyer. the lecturer made us do a full scale debate for tutorials. case laws and statutory laws helped me understand the legal history of singapore a little better. knowledge is power.

GEK1527 Genes and Society
fun to read and learn in your own time but not fun to mug for. in the end, i returned everything to my lecturer after the exam as with all the other subjects that didnt interest me from primary sch till now. 100 mcqs in 2 hours for the final exam is mind boggling. i had a headache after the paper.

EC1301 Principles of Economics
again this is jc round 2. did everything of this in jc before except that this module is all mcqs. no essays. hooray.

RE1803 Urban Land Use and Development
only useful if you want to become a urban planner. wont help you make any money at all. lecture 7 was a copy and paste of all the statutory boards website. spent lots of time on the project but the lecturer didnt like it apparently. only got average grades. which proves my point even further to just flood the project with pictures. lecturers are just too busy to single-handedly read through all 50 10-page reports. you give them pictures they give you A+. mutually beneficial.

RE1804 Fundamentals of Real Estate Finance
helped me understand the financial system better(about financial intermediaries and how various factors affect the current interest rate). the lecturer threw us into the deep end of the pool for this one. we had to pose as interested clients and contact several banks for their mortgage amortization schedules and compare and contrast the effective interest rates. very good module which will most definitely help me in the purchase of my first home in future.

RE1805 Real Estate Management
module is good for those interested in becoming property managers. which is the person in charge of the leasing, tenant selection and maintenance of a residential/commercial building. basically the odd-job-know-it-all for the building. the lecture notes are 6 years old. i know it cos i compared it with the materials of a senior. the lecturer must have it easy eh. just prepare one powerpoint slide and use it through his 10 years in nus.

GEK1001 Place, Environment and Society
geog module. similar to O level geog with human and physical sections. got A for 40% of the module (projects). hope i do sufficiently well for this module. on a side note, the readings are crazy. more time-consuming than my core modules. this is a reminder to me to be wary when choosing arts module in future. but no worries, i spotted topics for the final exam and i was spot on. i chose 4 topics out of 10 to study for and all of them came out. *keeping my hopes high for the final grade*

FL1101 The Little Things of Felicia Lim
getting to know her, getting to know more about her.
very tough module. mostly happy studying for it and some lessons are learnt the hard way (disclaimer: the abuse of the mugger-in-question cannot be sufficiently quantified).
i wouldnt know the final grade of this module until the time comes. what time? i was told that i will know it when the time comes.
*k.i.v this module*
da bao it till next sem..