Dear readers...
This post is all about my college life. I will try my best to gist it up, well lets see if that happens! :P
As I was so occupied with the carnival, home tuition and El's bday party on ; 27.6-Saturday, I had to make time to study for mid term which was the day after Sat. Thank god, I only had one written subject for mid term and of course its not Public Speaking, but Intro to Comp. IM telling you, it was like plunging myself into the dark hole finding for something that would let me out of it. It was totally incredulous as in ME, Janane studying on all the terms and specifications of computers and its like. It took me a total of 14hours to finish four chapters and I skipped a chapter and just read its summarized content due to my last minute attitude. I did something else which I doubt the rest of my class mates wouldn't have done or even thought of doing...well I just went to the online site of the book which my lecturer uses and tried up doing the practices and quizzes available there. It really helped me a lot to gauge my understanding and made me more confident while I was rushing towards the examination hall. (ermm its a classroom actually) I am quite glad on the results as there were not many questions which I have not chanced upon the book and the website. :D
13.7; Mond: As for Public Speaking, for my informative speech, I came up with Food Allergy. I covered the aspects on what it was about, how it affects those who are allergic to certain kinds of food, what food types are prone to trigger allergy reactions to those who consume it, prevention methodology and cure. YES, you read it right, there is actually cure for those whom are allergic to lets say cows milk or even peanut butter. The treatment is known as Oral Immunotherapy. Although, it is successive, it is still not approved for widespread usage as those who undergoes this therapy are under strict observations of physicians.
Next, I was getting busy with this assignment to set up an awareness campaign booth on the tenth floor of my college's building aka as the ADP's floor where almost all the ADP classes are conducted. I was in the group of five whereby it includes 2 Nigerians and 2 Chinese. Everything was wrong since the beginning. It is just that, I failed to realize that some people can be extremely lazy, irresponsible and couldn't care much on how their misdeeds can spoil another s day or even life. I would not want to elaborate more because I know I will start cussing. So the 40percentage task is practically screwed up and I wonder if the lecturer who is already known for his stringent manners in evaluating his students' tasks would actually give us the mark we need in order to at least pass the paper. FYI, out of my own courage, I made a complaint to him along with another 2boys on this hoping at least that would make him feel a little pity on us.
In between all these problems, we had quizzes for Public Speaking to examine our understanding on its theories. It is such a waste because, I don't think reading the book benefited any of us since we were all just grasping the main points which would enable us to ace the quiz. So yeah practically to put into words, I was studying for the purpose of a quiz, which is so not educational!
15.7; Wedn: After that, we had our forum presentation for the Public Speaking class. The topic was chosen by me. CREDIT CARDS. I know very the lame, but we had to come up with something asap and there weren't many choices that could suit all the speakers in my group. I really thank God that my Public Speaking group mates were so good, that they co-operated and we helped each other till the very last minute before we presented it to our lecturer. This is the day, I fell sick and the symptoms were similar to H1N1. O yeah, started with sudden body ache..thanks to Michelle as she brought panadols upon my call to her earlier that day. I dont know how I pulled through the forum as we were the last ones to present it for the day with the incredible pain.
The next 3days, I was on medical leave...the doc said it has nothing to do with H1N1, but trust me, I think it was because after my fever stopped, my mum had the same symptoms and very high fever which was the contracted by my younger bro. SO, is this a normal ailment? I hoped so, because on 24.7;Friday I was forced to make presence to the Public Speaking class as there was a quiz due. Meaning to say, I had came into contact with at least 50 classmates and more..I hope none of them fell sick coz of me! Once I was done with the quiz, I went back home as the teacher excused me for that day's class and my persuasive was postponed to Monday.
By Monday (20.7) I am still recovering, now from cough and flu! GOSH, it really sucks esp when I needed to travel while being so lethargic to and from college during this period. On this day, I really broke down as the assignment which was supposed to be handed was in failure due to few people in my group. Since, I was helping them to finish whatever possible, I totally was not prepared for my persuasive speech which carried 25percent. In the end, I coaxed Ms. Padma with my persuasive skills (ehem) coming clean about what has happened and asked her for another chance to be evaluated on the next day. She just gasped when she heard me asking for such request and unbelievably she agreed to me with a condition of being the last to speak, the very next day. I sighed with relief.
Tues, 21.7: The persuasive speech was scheduled to begin at 4 in the evening. I had tons of time to prepare for it but whatever happened with the folio for my Intro to Comp reluctantly made me to forget whatever I had memorized earlier and I wasted my time on shrugging the thoughts of my mind. Enough said, Elton my buddy from the Intro to Comp class, who was also in the Public Speaking class accompanied me till the end of the whole session. My persuasive topic was to persuade people to become vegans or vegetarians on terms of ecology, animal cruelty, world poverty and human rights, and of course one's health concerns too. The session ended around eight at night and Elton is such a nice chap to drive me all the way to the KTM station who dropped me there, so that I can catch a train back home rather than waiting for the bus . Well, I'd describe Elton as tall and average sized with a lot of sense of humor and maturity. He is the only son in his family and is doing his second year of ADP in finance and management after completing his A-levels at TARC. I was really amazed at his modified Proton Wira which he did it on his own. Apparently, I also got to know that, he used to work with workshops which caters specially into modifying cars.
The very next day, WED(22.7), we had our final class for Public Sp which ended with the last quiz. On Mond ( 27.7) , I completed the final exam for the Intro to Comp which resulted towards the end of my first ever semester in SEGi SJ! Im now on a semester break for 3weeks, lets all hope I will pass my Intro to Comp sub, or else bad news will be waiting for me in the beginning of the next sem.
BTW, this is Michelle and me in our last class of Public Speaking.
Erm, do u find this as a gist?
