Tuesday, March 11, 2008
It's only the second week of school, but it feels like it has been like a month. I think it has to do in part with the sudden load of information to take in on all fronts, school, OCF. I have my first assignment due next Thursday!! I know I've mentioned this already, but I still can't believe its all happening so fast.
Tutorials started this week, and I had my first econs and finance tute. For starters, my econs tutor is super super super (and for lack of a better word) fat. He is so fat that when his whiteboard marker cap dropped to the floor, I had my doubts if he could bend down to pick it up. I know very mean, but its a possibility. But he is a fine example that we should not judge a book by its cover as he has a Masters in Finance!!! He has a knack for explaining things clearly, and succinctly too. I guess I do appreciate him as my tutor, but I'm going to take some time to get over his size... if I have enough time... He's huge!!! Ok moving on...
My finance tute was very quiet, but I did learn something during the introduction. China people are only interested in making money. We were asked why we chose IPF, and the only 2 china people in my tute said because they want to make money, and they believe the subject will help. Ok, so it's a biased conclusion, but I wasn't the only one who came to that conclusion. My sad tutor picked up on it as well.
Sad not by any means of his own I should add. Apparently no tutorial participation marks are given out, so why should people bother to go for finance tutorials right? There is nothing he can do. Well, he doesn't care that he can't do anything, but my lecturer finds that not posting the answers to the tutorial questions is a strong enough motivation to go for tutorials. Boy was he shocked when technology hit him in the face, and students started using their camera phones to take picture of the answers and lend it to their friends, why bother scramble to copy furiously when u can just click a button right? So, guess what? No mobile phones allowed, and more specifically, no photo taking of any kind in class... yes I told you its sad.
Dan
4:49 pm
