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Tuesday, 9 August 2011 The Start of a New Life, The Start of a New Environment.
The Start of a New Life, The Start of a New Environment. 1st August 2011, Introduction to University Studies. Monday, the first day of August, the first day of the week and the first day of my new life in University. It’s a whole new environment, a lot of new faces and more new subjects in which they are called as modules, and I’m still coping with this new life because it’s a totally different life from schooling. Here in UBD, Unibridge to be exact, we have to take three core modules and one optional modules to make up a total of 4 modules (and we have to pass all this module to pass UniBridge). One of the core module (which is the reason why I’m writing this journal) is the Introduction to University Studies, and today was my first class for this module. This module, as the name says, is helping us to cope with the new university environment especially the way of learning and studying in university (at least that is what I think). But according to what we discussed in the class today, my thought is true I guess. The first thing we discussed with the lecturers were the ‘school versus university’ topic. We had to mention the differences between them and what are the expectations in university. I don’t know if I can talk so much about this since I didn’t get to take note of many of what my colleagues’ said. But I did get to know the differences between schools and universities. One of it is uniforms, in school we had to wear those boring everyday school uniform (but I think it’s still a must though, because it identifies which school we are from) whereas here in university, no uniforms needed (but there are still some restrictions about the clothing in UBD). Another difference between them is that we, unlike in schools, doesn’t have a registration class and we don’t need to stay in one class(excluding the sixth form since it’s also called pre-university. We have to go around and find our class since every module has its own buildings(and I think it’s actually good because moving around makes your brain active and it’s also good for our health, and we will not be sleepy in class). Another discussion we had about this was the expectations in university. One of the expectation is spoon feeding(it can also be a difference point). Unlike in schools, we are not going to be given the answers or the points by the lecturers as much as in schools, they are basically like just giving a general idea of the module we are studying. Which means that we need to know how to take note ourselves. And this brings us to the next point, we are going to need more learning on our own, we need to do more research on our own. Thus I learned something about university life, ‘Independent Studies’. And we also had a discussion about independent study. Many of my colleagues said something about studying on your own without help or guidance from lecturers and so on. Yes independent study is about studying on your own, but it is more about the way we study on our own. Like what our lecturers said, some of us maybe study on their own in isolation, some may like to study outdoors like in the gardens, or by the ocean, and some maybe study while listening to music (what I did sometimes). But to say independent study is studying without the help or guidance from lecturers is a bit wrong, because we might get the wrong points or answers, independent studies should be about studying on our own with LESS help or guidance from our lecturers. After our discussion about independent study, we had a little activity, or a quiz plans (since every question contains the word ‘plan’). There is one thing I’m not sure about the quiz, is it asking about how I use to be or how am I going to be in university. But in the end I think of it as how I use to be and I only get a total of 12 points in the quiz, a poor planner I am, and so I need and must work out on that. I must be a better planner from now on. To Be Continued... This post is posted on 8/09/2011 10:27:00 pm |
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