umbridge power~
den did some stuff for fyp after sch.. v sian leh... really hate sch now can.. now i m waiting to go tuition but i m jus sooooo tired n sian can.. feel like postponing but cant la.. haiz...
oh!!! jus chk hp my tutee wanna postpone hahahahaahahahhahaahahah lao tian 爷爷 mus haf heard my pleas again! heezz okie i can nuaaaaa..
oh ya while doing fyp in fal hahaha some of e econs yr 4 gathered to read umbridge email.. really heng i dropped dat module liao.. but hey girls keep me update on any happenings alright.. jus like wad yinglin said hahaha we need some stuff to spice up our mundane boring irritating yr 4 life.. haiz...
excerpts from her email will b reproduced here...
jus to furnish u all some backgrd info on wad happened... basically each week there will b 1 grp presenting a term paper for an entire hour den followed by a discussant grp presentation... so e term paper grp need to upload slides n their report [finalised one] 1 week before their presentation so dat their discussant could prepare the critique la.. hmm cos this is qt a demanding course with very heavy weightage on the term paper so a lot of ppl were qt panicky la.. n oso to present for one hour and conduct the seminar solely is not an easy feat.. to make things worse, this said course coordinator oso requested the presentation to be as entertaining as possible cos she doesnt wanna fall asleep.. think: some of our profs' voices haf really good tranquilizing effect,fyi.I have taught in NTU for many years, but it is the first time I am teaching economic students. In the previous years, I have taught engineering students, business students, and accountancy students.
oh i dunno if she really taught in ntu for many yrs cos ar she is still doing her phd under one of our distinguished prof.. n she major in social sci la.. grad from nus social sci den went on to do her masters in nus too.. dunno y all of a sudden she doing econs phd?! n dunno y she can teach eng, biz and acct ppl oso.. hmmmmThis is the first time that I have received emails of this nature. No students in my previous "Political Economy of East Asia" classes have ever complained about fairness, about who has more time to prepare, about lecturer not able to complete lecturing in time thus that impede their preparation (I can assure you, lecturer not able to complete lecturing in time is not an uncommon occurrence). It bothered me quite a bit.
oh btw in e prev paragraph she said this is e first time she taught econs students right.. but she went on to say no student in her prev Pol ecy classes has ever complained.. ehhhhhh pol ecy is our core btw..
oh well u cld interprete this as our cohort being more kiasu and wanting to produce high-quality work lor...
n i rmb she emphasised e importance of very high quality english.. n i assumed she did spend some time drafting this email... den y isit the italicised sentence seems a bit clumsy? alright mayb only i think dat way... but the more obvious grammatical errors wld be no student (without "s") from her prev classes HAS (not have). and parallel sentence structure "ever complained ... ... , about lecturer not ^being able to ...Two things bothered me: your attitude towards each other and your attitude towards the project in particular and studying in general.
i reallllllliii dunno how she cld tell our attitude towards one another jus by a simple request of extension of deadline...I always tell my students, "all of you are classmates, love each other,
respect each other". Some of you have viewed studying as a zero-sum
game, one man gains is the other man losses. But studying is not a zero-sum
game. The more you learn together, the more the whole class benefits. And it
really does not matter if someone has it better/easier than you. If we can, we
should always lend a helping hand to our classmates. We should be more
considerate, more tolerance. When Group 1 asked for an
extension, they did not take the welfare of your discussant group into
consideration. Similarly, the discussant group did not display tolerance when
they raised the issue of lesser days of preparation. What will be a better
response? Group 1 should thanks the discussant group, while the
discussant group should tell Group 1 that it is okay, 5-6 days are sufficient.
Be nice, be considerate, be tolerance. Your cohort is
very small, relationship among you should be more warm and
cordial.
well in case she doesnt noe we pioneer batch r one of the most closely-knit cohort in the entire hss... partly cos our cohort is really small and we've been through a lot and achieved a lot tgt... n thanks to e sch's new policy announcements which never fail to stun us every sem.. we alwiz haf endless topics to grumble and whine tgt.. this is a source of bonding, btw. who is she to judge whether we love each other or anot?! n if we r warm n condial to each other.
n once again she din prove her english to be of superb quality either.. she apparently cant differentiate when to use "tolerant" and "tolerance". when the same mistake appears more than once, she obviously doesnt know. "relationship among you" would definitely earn the remark "Exp error" if i were to submit to my pri/sec sch/jc teacher... =)
n btw the 2 grps: tp and discussant did communicate with each other...Studies have shown that Economic students are more selfish. I hope our students are not like that.
http://www.robert-h-frank.com/PDFs/ES.2.17.05.pdf
hmmm this has to be most classic one i guess...
so now she as an Economics lecturer is saying that we [which includes her, i guess] are more selfish. oh.. does it mean that the level of our profs' selfishness is unsurmountable?! cos after all they haf attained e phd level!
oh btw she actually provided a link for us to support her claim.. and of cos, i went to read the article..it doesnt really support her claim.P.S. Please do not reply to this email, no matter you agree with me or not. I hope all of you can mature into a better person, not just someone who aces Economics. I will consider the case as closed. I will not entertain any more request of deadline extension.
n now she doesnt even give us a chance to rebut after 人身攻击-ing us...poor grp one.. 2 of the members left lect halfway to go to fal to read dis email.. n poor thing e 3 of them were fuming mad. the last i heard of was they r gg to forward dis email to our esteemed econs profs.. the ones who really care abt us n our welfare...
disclaimer: please pardon any grammatical errors or expression errors as the writer [yours truly] did not spend a lot of time blogging this entry, neither did she bother to check her blog entry. this entry is soley for entertainment purposes. =)
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