Lazy way of asking for exam tips

Juniors now a day have never failed to amuse me with their ‘creativity’ side. At one moment, they can be scrambling for tips for almost every paper that they going to sit for exam, to the extend of spamming everyone in their YM list, yet the next thing I realized, they are busy updating Facebook, playing those Facebook games.

This is the problem. They put so much effort to hunt down last minute tips:

1. Meet every single lecturers, 1 day or 1 week before the xam or during the last lecture. Ask for tips and what questions will come out.
2. Tell their friends to ask their lecturers (if it is a different lecturer) the same thing.
3. Posting in online forums, asking for last minute tips and claiming that they are doing it because the lecturers are not helping them, they are not as smart as ’somebody’ so they have to ask for tips or other nonsense.
4. Spamming their contact list in their instant messenger asking for tips for almost every subjects they are taking.

Instead of doing those, why don’t you:

1. Compel yourself to successfully ‘understand’ the subject and pass the exam.
2. Do all your tutorials. Nothing from the tutorials that will not come out in your exam. It may not be similar, but it will be related.
3. You should have spent your time in lectures wisely. No, this does not mean paying  100% attention to your lecturers or achieving 100% attendance. These are nonsense and bullshit. You should have planned how you want to absorb the lecture given. The truth is, human can’t absorb anything 100% and our average attention life-span is 45 minutes. Make full use of that 45 minutes while you are still not yet sleepy. Pay attention to the lecture not the lecturer (I know some lecturers are cute, handsome, hot or they are just eye candy but by staring at them will not make you any smarter).
4. Do past year papers, not for the sake of doing exercise and memorizing on what going to come out but to build confidence and recognize the question patterns. In this way, you know where you can build your confidence. It is useful if you are the type that have low self confidence.

There are other things that you can do:

• Group study. Nothing in this world is free. Help your friends the same way you would expect them to help you.
• Look for tutors, lecturers and seniors who can help. Asking them for help once a while is perfectly fine but bugging them constantly is not. They are not paid for you to bug them constantly. Tutors and lecturers are paid to help you understand the subjects. Help yourself. Show some ‘appreciation’ if they are annoyed by your constant bugging. Once again, nothing in this world is free, so make sure you reward them accordingly.
• Be friends with those lone ranger seniors whom always sit behind because you and your buddies alienated them. By your definition, they may not be smart. Even if they are repeating that subject, they are indeed experienced (only applicable to those whom previously did not fail because they were once like you). Make full use of their experience. You do not want to be one of them if it so happen the next time you have to repeat your subjects.

This is a very popular practice in many universities, but not in MMU. There are external tutors that you can hire to give you tuition. They may be your own tutors, academicians from other universities or your seniors. They work the same way like your tuition teachers back during the school days. You pay them and they will try their best to help provided you are helping yourself. You might ask yourself, I have already paid so much to MMU for my fees, why do I need to fork out more money. My answer is, there is nothing as free lunch and do you want to pay a small amount of money to increase your likeliness of passing the subjects or you want to pay a hefty price(the term here implies the consequences of failing a subject) for repeating a failed subject and having your CGPA affected and Fs written on your transcripts?

Some of you who knows me may say of course I can say all these because I am ’smart’ or I am ‘different’. I can assure you I am different and smarter than you because I have only 15 minutes attention life-span, I definitely know how to differentiate what kind of approach that I need to take for my subjects and I am smart enough to know how to make good use of the time I spent in lectures. At the same time, I am no different or smarter than you. I am still a student and I still need to study.

I am too pissed to write anything

For the pass few months, things has been very hard for me. Alot of unpredictable things had happened, some for good, some for worst, but it can be summed up to total fucked-up-ness. Random shit happened to my ‘career’ as a university student whom actively invovlve in clubs and events. There’s so many things that I would like to spill the beans, but I am not guranteed the total freedom of speech and I am just tired if any joker decides to report to police because he or she claimed that I have falsely accused him/her after hearing from someone who read my blog.

My life as an active student was fine all the way till right after my first paper on the last semester’s final exam. People who are supposed to do their job right, were not doing it. I ended up vouluntary fixing problems that were caused by some of these ignorants. I was supposed to be relaxing and preparing peacefully for my next paper (if I had the choice), but I can’t. I sacrified my ‘long break’ between the papers. At the end of the day, I lost some friends who quited being my friends via facebook. How ironly was that. I didn’t even knew it until someone told me. How stupid and human be. I told you, I had problems with your work ethics, not you as a friend. As a friend, when I was able to, I wanted to talk to you face to face about it. There had been times that I (or my assistant) tried to arrange face to face meeting, I knew I am busy, but I still try to find time. You did the confrontation over the phone and email. What was that? You broke your friendship via facebook and the other person followed suite. Sad. What happened to the balls that you are supposed to have? If you have any problem with me, come and confront me or talk to me face to face. Deleting me off your ‘friend list’ is one of the most coward action you can do behind me. After this incident, maybe other problems rooted. I appreciated those who keep standing behind me and backed me up when I needed the support to keep me and our work going.

My stress did not end there. As the day drew nearer and nearer to a ‘big convention’, problems rotted up and my president had to try his best to dealt with it. Although I am just a small fry, but I know my responsibility as his committee (read this with sarcasm). I offered my help as much as my knowledge and manpower allows me for as long he knows what he is doing and do not bail out on us.

I do not know how much more I can continue, when I witnessed experienced first hand the idiocracy of the very top management of convofest09. Weeks ago, I spoke to the director (insert name here) trying to negotiate where we can open a small yearbook collection counter. As we do not want to interfere with the convofest and out of my respect to him as the director and as a person whom I treat as friend, I thought that was the most polite action I could do. Instead, we were slapped with a notice we have to pay RM480 (RM100 deposit refundable) if we wished to open a booth.How could we pay? We are already selling the yearbook at a lost. We barely cover our operation cost. I thought that was a miscommunication, thus I give a call and tried to discuss this in a proper manner. In the end, we were told that we were not allowed to open booth anywhere, except we tumpang somebody’s booth (which is stupid), or we pay for a booth (Which we could not afford). Although I was unhappy, but I understood your unreasonable reasons. I did not persue you further on this matter. I thought between you and me, this matter were already over.

Until today… I saw you around the lecture complex. With you having that unfriendly stare at me (although I still had some grudge on you for not giving us a booth, I kept it to myself). I knew what was in your head. I was sitting on a small table with a friend, holding up some flyers and a sample card. You did not confront me for what you thought. You chosed to inform your security dog, to give me a call on my personal number using SRC’s phone. I was accused of some convofest committee (I know who it was) saw me opening a small booth. I was threatened that I cannot do it and my stuff will be confisticated by their unauthorised securities shall I continue to do so tomorrow. Come on. You should start wearing a spectable. I was only doing my work as a part time promoter for the mmu official photographer studio. I was tired, thus I took a sit near the unoccupied chair and it just happen to have a table there. Not enough with that, a couple of hours later, you brother came to me to ‘halau me cara sopan’, without even politely greeting each other and finding out what were I doing. If I were to complain to my boss, you guys would have probably been in hot soup. I was paid to promote his services around campus. Not for you to ‘halau me cara sopan’. Whatever that had happened today, really had put the respect that you didn’t deserved or earned from me but I gave you out of common sense down to the drain.

I do not know how much more I could write. There are more things just happened a couple of hours back and I could still remember it vividly. There is so much anger that is kept inside me and I can’t think properly what I can and can’t write.

I'll always remember…

Looking on my student ID 105XXXXXXX, makes me ponder upon something. I should have been graduating. I am seeing people of my batch graduating, or left about one year to graduate. But not me. I started engineering studies quite bad, stuck for 3 years, before I finally decided that I cannot take it anymore. After almost a year switching to Game Design, I am much more contented. Although I still dislike programing and maths subjects, as least I am doing what people have been telling me I am good at, IT. Although I am not a 4 flat student, at least now I am back in reality, where the effort I put in seems to pay off with above 3 pointer.

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Rules for MMU Freshies

Freshie is a loose term for freshman in MMU. Ever since I came to MMU, the word freshmen is like taboo. Maybe freeshie is a word used by the seniors inadvertly to mock the juniors.

Well, being here in MMU for 4 consecutive years and I am still in Beta (2nd year degree equivalent), I have the bragging rights as a senior. And over the years, we have seen juniors coming in after our batch. Just when we thought we were the pathetics ones when weclo first came to MMU, the juniors are even more pathetic than us.

I didn’t make all the rules myself, rather, it is compiled from word of mouth and modified from a chain letter.

1. You are a FRESHMAN. Only we, the seniors have the rights to call you freshie.
2. Don’t brag how many seniors you know or which seniors you know. The more you do it, the more we can tell you are a stupid freshman.
3. Don’t hang your ID around your neck. We do not care who you are unless you are a female and you are attractive.
4. Don’t think you are smart if you can escape from being fined by the security. We all have done it.
5. Don’t bother introducing yourself to senior girls. Either they are taken or they are not available.
6. Don’t wear formal attire to class. When you sweat, it looks disgusting and no girls will not come close to you. Only wear it for presentation and change immediately after that.
7. Don’t brag how smart you are in class or else we will throw our projects and assignments to you.
8. Don’t try to sit behind the class. Those seats belong to your seniors. You should sit in front and concentrate.
9. Don’t act like you are a senior. The senior girls know you are really a freshman. It is written all over you.
10. Don’t even tell us “You were once freshies too”. Yes, we were once, but we ain’t anymore. So shut up and keep your head low.
11. Don’t think you are cool coz you went clubbing. We all have done it.
12. Don’t brag how many times you went to the gym. The bended weight bars in the gym are speaks for itself how long we have been visiting the gym.
13. Don’t try to cheer or scream ‘You rock’ at grandhall concert. They ain’t cool coz you have to sit on the chairs while watching the rock performances. Its the rules and it sucks.
14. Don’t try to brag how many times you got summoned for having cigarettes in hostel. We will think you are dumb enough not to hide it during spot checks.
15. Don’t ever remind the lecturer about giving assignments or when it is due. You are ought to get beaten by the seniors sitting behind if you do it.
16. Don’t ever make fun of your seniors who are taking subjects such as Math Tech 1, Engine Math 1, Circuit Theory, CP1, we will make sure you will suffer in the class for the rest of the semester.
17. If you know of a senior who is not in the class when the lecturer is calling his/her name, the answer is not ‘I saw him/her in the previous class’. You are to keep your mouth shut.
18. A note to all freshmen guys: Do not go around bragging how many girlfriends you have or how many girls you dated in MMU. We all know your dick haven’t grow yet and you are lying.
19. A note to all freshmen girls: Do not go around camwhoring and posting your pictures. You have nothing to show… yet. Do not attempt to wear your little sister’s clothes. The only seniors that are going to see your pictures are those sick, perverted nerds or otakus. Even the geeks’ girlfriends are better than you.
20. A note to all freshmen: You own the lowest possible social ladder. Stop hitting on the seniors. Consider yourself lucky if you aren’t beaten up by their boyfriend/girlfriend.
21. It’s no big deal if you touched a boob before. We all have done it.
22. Stop boasting about how a senior treat you nicely and bring you out for yamcha. Probably they just felt sympathic.
23. When we have seniors only party, freshmen are to stay guard at the door. If you attempt to have freshies’ party, we will make sure everyone in the campus are invited.
24. Stop thinking life is though and shit in MMU. We will make it even shittier.
25. You are not as hot as the graduating girls of 107XXXXXXX, 106XXXXXXX, 105XXXXXXX, or before. You have small boobs, small ass and you are like a 12 y/o.
26. Freshmen must give up seats on the T429 bus to your seniors. We have spent 3-4 years standing, and now its your turn.
27. We don’t care to remember your name. Your name is ‘108′ to us.
28. We all went thru these shit. That’s why we are your senior!

Consider this as a message from us 107, 106, 105 or before.

Congratulation to those who are graduating this June 2009. You don’t suck anymore.