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EZ EXAMS!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Wow, talk about easy. It was the first day of classes today and just like NTU, the first lectures were crap-ily short course syllabus introductions. Now what's really easy is this...listen up. I'm doing a management module here to match my GERPE-Biz requirement back in NTU, and a General Psychology module to match HP101. Guess how the final grade is calculated?
4 exams of 50mcqs each, every 4 weeks. Add them up and tada, that's 100% of your grade. Like WTF?! No wonder Asian international students excel in American universities. With an exam-system like that for their modules, I could probably play World of Warcraft everyday and still get my A without problems.
Tomorrow I'll attend my LCC (COM equivalent modules) and we'll see if their exams are fashioned in such similar pushover fashions. I'm praying it is!
Oh and for the first time since arriving here, I wore just a tee-shirt out for class. The temperature was a whooping 67F (19C)! Talk about major temperature fluctuations! And according to forecast, it's gonna hit 29F (-2) by this Saturday. I'm literally experiencing both summer and winter at the same time! Talk about weird weather and global warming ><
I wasn't the only one dressed in just a tee though. I spotted quite a few locals wearing berms and some even slippers. I think Georgia is a great state for having such an awesome weather. I mean, I want to see snow, but I don't think freezing everyday is a good idea, such as NYC. This Georgia-ian weather is just perfect for my needs.
Textbooks are insanely expensive. The management module uses a textbook of the same thickness, size, and paper-quality (paperback), as the COM201 textbook that we used in year1. And it costs 141USD! Like OMG! I'll NOT buy it. Who needs a textbook for an mcq-exam module anyway lol.
So far only my Philosophy module scares me. The only few names I recognized that the professor was mouthing off were Socrates, Plato, and Descartes. Everything else was Greek (pun intended). And on a sidenote, my Philosophy professor locked me and a fellow student out of the class for 10minutes because we came late. He bolted the classroom door tight!
Talk about weird. Or maybe it's the most effective way to embarass students and correct their late-coming behavior haha.
One of the Thadii blogged at 11:24 AM.
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