
Let’s see
July 16, 2008Frankly, I have no idea what to write about.
The bus ride on home from school was spent brainstorming on a behavior to modify for my project. Sounds easy? A behavior that has peer-reviewed research justifying its modification. One that can be measurable and quantifiable. One that is not lame.
Increase my sleep time. How to measure when exactly I fall asleep? How about sleeping in class? Naps? On the bus? Ohkay scrape that. Drinking more water? But I already drink enough water each day. Plus how do you measure how much water is a cup of chin chow? Decrease my online gaming time? It’s already decreased drastically since school started; I’m showing withdrawal symptoms. Want me to decrease some more ah? Weeeeell. It is the easiest to measure now. So decrease gaming time and spend that time sleeping. What if I can’t fall asleep because I stop gaming (my before-bed routine) and go to bed earlier? Nevermind.. play the guitar instead. Then I’ll have to explain why I chose the guitar, of all things. Well it’s a hobby. It’s stress relieving. But isn’t gaming a stress relieving hobby too? And why the guitar? So I have to stand in front of the class and emotionally and passionately explain my love for the guitar. And, is there research showing that guitar-playing is good? Thinking about all these makes me wanna cry.
So never mind that now, think of something else happifying. Last Wed, I had a whole mud pie at TCC. Last Fri, I had Gelare. On Sat, waffle with ice-cream at Daily Scoop. This Tue, shared a mud pie and a tub of blackforest at Island Creamery. Tonight, my mother wanted Hagen Dazs. I refused cos things were getting too fattening. Haha. It was a week of ice-cream! Maybe I should modify my ice-cream eating behavior.
Tomorrow tomorrow.. It’s the waste-my-7-hours-in-school-and-2-hours-traveling day. In fact the most looked-forward to thing tomorrow is the quiz for me. Without the quiz, I’d just close 2 eyes and sleep in. Unfortunately, tomorrow’s quiz will be on the lecture that I wasn’t listening to. *sighs* Got to study later. I’m really dreading my tutes. The first one gets me restless and fidgety, the second one really annoys me. Especially when the tutor doesn’t know what on earth she’s talking about.
The current school management is treating the school like a business enterprise rather than an educational centre. It’s very, very bad. Worse still, they are going to call students “clients” now; they’re starting a “Client Service Center” instead of a Student Center. I want the old management back. They know how to value good staff and lecturers. JCU is soon going the way of UNSW if nothing changes. If JCU gets the recognition of MOE, will things change, or will more students join to find that they’ve been hoodwinked by all the sweet talk and superficial marketing?
I don’t regret joining the school; JCU is a good school. There were good lecturers and tutors, and the future seemed bright at the beginning. Now in the midst of all the rule changes, the ones losing out are the students as staff quit, and ultimately the school can’t function as usual. Thank God Patrick and a few others are still teaching as of now. Don’t forget we’re paying $6420 per term. It’s like buying a degree. But then again… there are worse schools out there and thank God we’re not there. But things can be better though.







